Matthew Krouse
Guest Author
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/ 28 May 2007

My night of hell at Jo’burg Gen

My best friend is sick. Well, he was, but he is recovering. When he was really down he called me and said he was tired, could hardly walk, was throwing up and thirsty as hell. After a week of battling the odds, he did a superhuman thing: got out of bed and walked from his room in Joubert Park to the Park Station Medical and Dental Centre in Braamfontein, writes the Mail & Guardian‘s Matthew Krouse .

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/ 16 March 2007

Gay times on SABC

The SABC may have reached a turning point in its attitude to gay content on the airwaves. This is the message from commissioning editors, who told the audience at the Out in Africa gay and lesbian film festival how gay and lesbian issues are being increasingly positively portrayed on the broadcaster, and have arrived on widely watched programmes.

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/ 8 January 2007

SA’s changing culture

South Africa’s youth culture is undergoing pervasive Americanisation, while the country’s long tradition of artistic activism is evaporating, complains the newly anointed poet laureate, Keorapetse Kgositsile. But rising literary editor Ntone Edjabe disagrees, pointing to the popularity of new forms of expression among young South Africans.