Kwanele Sosibo laments that the South African Music Awards lack innovation.
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.
A downtown "fash off" will highlight clothing as a unifier of circumstance and culture.
CNN journalist Nkepile Mabuse speaks to Kwanele Sosibo about representing Africa to the United States.
Sello Maake ka Ncube tells Kwanele Sosibo about life before and after <i>The Lion King</i>.
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.
”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.
Kwanele Sosibo speaks to South African songstress Tutu Puoane about her penchant for ”old people’s music”.
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.
Katzy’s is a cosmopolitan cigar lounge in The Firs shopping mall, Rosebank, just table-hopping distance from its big brother, The Grillhouse.