Kwanele Sosibo
Kwanele Sosibo is the editor of Friday, the arts and culture section of the Mail and Guardian.
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/ 21 April 2008

Celebrity SABC boss Mpofu splits board

The opposing forces in the SABC boardroom battle became clearer this week: CEO Dali Mpofu is up against board chairperson Khanyi Mkonza and her deputy Christine Qunta, who want him axed, while his supporters include businessman Peter Vundla, President Thabo Mbeki’s former spokesperson Bheki Khumalo and electoral commission chief Pansy Tlakula.

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/ 4 April 2008

A life fit for a king

Another ”king” and another claim for state assistance. The king of the Griqua nation, Adam Kok V, only requires five houses for tourism, another five for his servants, a palace, a helicopter, a landing strip, one charter plane, 100 cattle, 200 sheep, and 100 goats and poultry, among other requests.

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/ 29 March 2008

Pouring fuel on flames

”We would rather go die in Zimbabwe than be right here,” is the sentiment echoing round the Mangena Mokone Primary School. The school, in Atteridgeville outside Pretoria, has been turned into a refugee camp after violence against foreigners erupted in the informal settlements lining the township’s western and southern edges.

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/ 20 March 2008

Spray and ‘Slam

On a drab Braamfontein street corner is a small store called Grayscale, specialising in graffiti paraphernalia and alternative streetwear. Gini Grindith, as he is known in the hip-hop community, mans the counter. A graffiti writer who has not led a religious life before, he has decided to become a Muslim.