The La Cite hall in the northern streets of Rennes is the spiritual home of the festival. Lloyd Gedye was there for one mesmerising night.
Pupils in the country’s rural schools remain disadvantaged by absent resources, and that is why they performed worse than their urban counterparts.
With just one week to go until ANC delegates descend upon Mangaung, we chat to our politics team about their predictions for the all-important conference.
Malaysian customs have seized 24 tonnes of unprocessed elephant tusks worth almost $20-million, the largest haul in the country to date.
The Afrikaner separatist town of Orania and the Xhosa community of Mnyameni have signed an agreement to help both achieve greater self-reliance.
Zimbabwe’s first lady Grace Mugabe, who is married to Africa’s oldest leader, says her husband made her the woman she is today.
The presidency says former president Nelson Mandela is suffering from a lung infection, and is responding well to treatment in a Pretoria hospital.
President Jacob Zuma’s inability to control his spending is not a new South African story; most citizens seem to be spending beyond their means.
A hearing by SA’s competition tribunal on commodities trader Glencore’s takeover of miner Xstrata has been postponed until next month, the court said.
A MetroFM interview on Mangaung, which was controversially pulled off the air at the last minute by SABC bosses, has been resurrected.