Charles Leonard
Charles Leonard is a journalist, editor, broadcaster, DJ and record collector. For more than 30 years, he has edited and written for a variety of South African publications and broadcasters, including the Mail & Guardian, Business Day, SABC, Vrye Weekblad and the Sunday Times, as well as Channel Four News in the UK.
Hooked on music
/ 2 March 2012

Hooked on music

<b>Charles Leonard</b> explains why Taste of Sónar is a far more exciting prospect for music junkies than the Cape Town International Jazz Festival.

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/ 1 September 2006

No dating club for pointy-heads

As the sympathetic examiner handed me my Mensa IQ test results, I had a sense of how the Pakistani cricket team must feel about Aussie umpire Darrell Hair. The difference, of course, was that the examiner wasn’t the stupid one. A few days earlier I had attended a local get-together of this international organisation for people with an IQ in the top 2% of the population, writes Charles Leonard.