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.
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/ 18 August 2006

Afrikaans sushi

‘<i>Ek sal ’n oranje pet dra</i> [I’ll be wearing an orange cap]" was how it sounded. The Japanese professor was telling me how to recognise him when he arrived at Johannesburg International. In Afrikaans. A thought flashed through my head: was Takasji Sakura’s cap "oranje" as in the colour, or from Orania as in the Northern Cape?

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/ 31 July 2006

‘Nothing ever happens without reason’

Lesley-Ann van Selm, MD of Khulisa, one of the country’s most effective crime rehabilitation organisations, could have been forgiven if she had joined the chicken run after what happened in May this year. Her daughter Jackie was shot in the neck in a daylight hijacking outside her boyfriend’s Johannesburg home.

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/ 17 July 2006

Addicted to Tinseltown

The local publishing industry continues to feed South Africans’ insatiable appetite for ”exclusive” new details of what Paris, Angelina and Britney are up to. Afrikaners now have a new celebrity mag in Mense, while an up-market gossip sheet, In Style, will soon hit the news-stands.

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/ 23 July 2004

Voice from Detroit

She spells her first name with a lower case "j" and her last name with an "m" as "a statement of not accepting all that people name you, or define you as". Charles Leonard talks to American poet jessica Care moore, who performs at the Urban Voices festival this month.