The Spier 'Secret' Festival is trading on the current obsession to experience something others can't.

The African music industry is in for a long overdue facelift. MTV base -- MTV's African music channel -- kicked off with all the appropriate glitz and glamour last week. Nadine Botha takes a closer look.

Most listeners would be reluctant to call the Real Estate Agents hip-hop, as their press release tries to sell them. Their sound is harder, more asynchronous, than the commercially sold sound. The Agents are turning the tables, writes Nadine Botha.

"The Awakening Film Festival is so-called because we believe this programme of films will evoke powerful memories of the past and stimulate imagination of possible futures." A showcase of African film provides an antidote to the Hollywood propaganda machine, writes Nadine Botha.

Jules Mercer spares no expense in curating her marvellous feasts in the most unlikely venues.

Having showed across the world for the past 15 years, the blockbuster Body Worlds exhibition has now berthed in Cape Town.

More Capetonians are realising that growing their own vegetables is the healthiest way to go.

Nadine Botha recounts her day at the Cobern Pansexual Street Fair in De Waterkant, Cape Town, in what is left of the somewhat decimated "gay village".