<i>Sarah Badat</i> got a heads up on the official attitude to creative production at Friday’s opening sessions at the annual Joburg Art Fair.
Zimbabwe PM Morgan Tsvangirai has backed President Robert Mugabe’s stance against including gay rights in a new constitution, state media reported.
Could crime fiction be the new direction the "political novel" is taking in contemporary South Africa?
Now is the time to reconsider the work of Guy Butler and what he stood for.
Had she been born 50 years later, the irresistible, dazzling Madame Chiang Kai-shek could have ruled the world, writes Julia Lovell.
Irish sexual mores are notoriously conservative because of religious constraints, but a new book interrogates a more sordid side of the country’s past
Percy Zvomuya reviews two histories of the beautiful game as played in Africa.
Since his arrest for drunken driving in Cape Town this month, the ANC’s senior spokesperson, Jackson Mthembu, apologises to everyone he meets.
A rafting trip down the Colorado River provides private and awesome views of one of the world’s natural wonders. Elisabeth Hyde reports.
While some establishments bustle with wealthy young consumers, others are falling victim to radical changes in Indian society, writes Jason Burke.