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/ 18 September 2006
Rita Marley, the widow of late reggae musician Bob Marley, has been falsely using the name of Archbishop Desmond Tutu to garner publicity for a series of concerts she hopes to hold in the country early next year to commemorate the birth of her husband. The Africa Unite programme will be staged in Durban, Cape Town and Johannesburg.
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/ 8 September 2006
The Universal Church of the Kingdom of God has no visible doctrine or moral message and is almost silent on the Bible, but it believes passionately in generous "sacrifices" to the sect by its followers. And in daily advertisements on television, it offers neither spiritual enlightenment nor salvation.
While the average working South African donates a generous 2,2% of his or her salary to worthy causes — amounting to about R1-billion a month — huge amounts of food are still wasted every day. It is almost impossible to determine how much surplus food is thrown away in South Africa because organisations that redistribute food work largely in isolation.
"Yoh! When was the last time I did this?" mutters Xoli Ntshingila as she looks around for a brush. Ntshingila recently won the Black Trophy at the World Hairdressing Championship in Moscow, making her the best ethnic hairdresser in the world. She’s about to give me a haircut, a privilege she doesn’t often extend to men these days, writes Kwanele Sosibo.
Kwanele Sosibo asks poet Saul Williams about grippo — his form of post-apocalyptic electro/punk-rap.
The new edition of Chimurenga magazine explores ‘Nigerianness’, which is described as ‘an overriding descriptor of black people in the negative’. Kwanele Sosibo speaks to the Magazine’s editor, Ntone Edjabe.
An independent disciplinary tribunal was not convinced that Aubrey Mokadi walked on water and fired him as vice-chancellor of the Vaal University of Technology. Dubbed "Jesus of the Vaal", he got axed after being found guilty on 161 counts of corruption, fraud and nepotism.
<b>CD OF THE WEEK: </b>On his sophomore offering, <i>Late Registration</i>, rapper/producer Kanye West treads similar ground to his inaugural release <i>College Dropout</i>, albeit slightly more refined, writes Kwanele Sosibo.
The Politburo Sessions launches its first compilation disc entitled 50funkYears! A Soundtrek this weekend. Kwanele Sosibo talks to the crew about the collection and questions the relevancy of the sessions.
Known for his defiant freestyles, boyish charms and musical flow, Pro Kid speaks to Kwanele Sosibo about ‘coming up in the game’ and why he can’t give up the mic.