Chris Roper says Die Antwoord’s reaction to his review of their album "SOS" was a cry for attention from the South African audience.
Chris Roper finds Bob Dylan’s Tempest isn’t a great Dylan album – and it doesn’t have to be, because it’s still one of 2012’s finest offerings.
Chris Roper was in the audience at Comedy Central’s roast of Steve Hofmeyr. But the evening of laughter left him terminally depressed.
Mail & Guardian Online editor Chris Roper battles to find significance in socialite Khanyi Mbau’s tell-all biography.
Antonie Roux was a true online person, and it’s no exaggeration to claim he shaped much of what the internet in SA has become, writes Chris Roper.
Derek Gripper’s transcendental guitar music does sublime justice to the Griots and their remarkable instrument called the kora, writes Chris Roper.
We’ve built a new M&G site to cater for the powerful new tools available to journalists and readers.
To tell you what Neil Le Roux’s monochrome work means appears to need a paradoxically massive vocabulary.
Government was kind enough to spend some of our money selling the secrecy Bill to us. Here’s a translation of what they really meant.
<b>Chris Roper</b> looks at what is needed to revitalise the news and stop beating about the bush when confronting our social ills.