The South African government’s policy on higher education is increasingly geared to catering for "vocational training in science and technology".
When I wrote Tsepo Wa Mamatu’s profile for 300 Young South Africans I began by quoting the verse: “Poetry makes nothing happen".
I recently reviewed Ben Okri’s new work, Tales of Freedom, a collection of his short stories. I didn't like it much.
A man shuffled up to me in the media room in Grahamstown on Thursday and abruptly asked who I was and which newspaper I wrote for.
Dance is suggestive of physical energy, of a body in continuous and rhythmic movement. Poetry operates in much the same way.
During the National Arts Festival in Grahamstown every vertical plane in the town is plastered with posters advertising events.
South Africans are no newcomers to trauma. Transition and progress aside, guilt, poverty, paranoia and anger have left us with a sense of dread.
Many will remember this year's National Arts Festival as a body fest.
The play Hayani is an evocative recollection of childhood by actor and director John Kani's son, Atandwa, and Nat Ramabulana.
Monday night at the National Arts Festival in Grahamstown saw the uniting of Ronald Snijders and United States-born Salim Washington.
The global economic crisis has resulted in a paradigm shift in which the "rich and powerful have been humbled", Eskom chairperson Bobby Godsell says.
The ghost of the fragile government of national unity in Zimbabwe hovers over the National Arts Festival in Grahamstown in Woza Joshua!.
At this year's National Arts Festival sponsor Standard Bank celebrates 25 years of its Young Artist Awards with an exhibition and a panel discussion.
James Ngcobo, director of Touch My Blood, which premieres this weekend, talks to Percy Zvomuya.
Ntshieng Mokgoro, the Standard Bank Young Artist for Drama 2009, tells Robert Colman about life beyond fringe township theatre.
Nicholas Hlobo is this year’s Standard Bank Young Artist Award-winner for visual art. Anthea Buys asks him about his enigmatic sculptures.
Through theatre ordinary people can address difficult issues, writes Percy Zvomuya.
MOVIE OF THE WEEK: Shaun de Waal reviews White Wedding starring Kenneth Nkosi and Rapulana Seiphemo.
If Kesivan Naidoo's drum kit could talk, it would probably out itself as a masochist.
MOVIE OF THE WEEK: Shaun de Waal reviews Religulous, a film by Bill Maher.
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