Fourteen years into democracy, South Africans are over the rainbow nation and growing up fast. And nowhere is our transition from ”colour-blind” children to sharp-tongued teenagers more evident than in the jingle of fruity, rooty names we’re using to describe ourselves and one another.

Wait till Jacob Zuma hears this. France’s new first lady, Carla Bruni, is into polygamy. “Monogamy bores me terribly,” she told the French newspaper, Le Figaro, a few months before meeting and rapidly marrying President Nicolas Sarkozy. “I prefer polygamy and polyandry [the female equivalent].”

CD of the week: Keith Henderson Boo! continue their climb towards glittery Munki Punk superstardom with the release of their first CD, which happens to be called Pineapple Flava (the cassette is Banana Flava). Having been in existence for just over a year, the trio – which consists of seasoned South African musos Chris Chameleon, […]

Marion Edmunds NATIONAL Party leader Deputy President FW de Klerk is to spend as little time as possible in a suit in the run-up to the local government elections, possibly hoping to match President Nelson Mandela’s casual shirts with a range of his own. Sources in the NP say they are doing their best to […]

The entire video programme of the Weekly Mail Festival of South African Cinema was yesterday thrown off Stellenbosch University Campus.