#Apartheid

Jun 16, 20154 min read

Africa’s Songbird

In Jazz there are those singers who are unafraid to do something truly different. They will sing against the grain, or play in a new way...

May 19, 20154 min read

Pitika Ntuli

Pitika Ntuli is a man whose mission seems to be to defy convention and straddle as many categories as possible. He is a sculptor, art...

Feb 7, 20154 min read

Language is a meeting place, a point of confrontation, between the individual and the social. André

“The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting” Milan Kundera as quoted by André Brink in Writing In A...

Jul 16, 201410 min read

A Cat Called Bongani Madondo

He should have been a Sophiatown heavy. With his two-tone brogues, tweed jackets, and occasional bowtie, he looks like something straight...

Jul 15, 20146 min read

Whose literature is it anyway?

It was inevitable that the defiance, dissent, resistance and protest against Apartheid should be reflected in South Africa’s literary...

Jul 14, 20144 min read

Nadine Gordimer’s shining literary voice

It tells us something about Nadine Gordimer that Raks Morakabe Seakhoa, the untiring champion of South African letters, used to call her...

Jun 14, 20121 min read

Interview with Photojournalist D Michael Cheers about music, freedom & writing

In Conversation with D Michael Cheers, Co writer of Still Grazing, With Hugh Masekela #WhatsGoingOn #DMichaelCheersHughMasekela...