<i>Gandhi My Father</i> signals an intensification of trade and cultural links between India and South Africa on an unprecedented scale, writes Matthew Krouse.
The fabled world of a mystical brotherhood comes alive at a Jo’burg gallery, writes Matthew Krouse.
Sun City’s second Positive bash is a layer cake of art and entertainment celebrating survival, writes Matthew Krouse
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 .
Instead of conducting routine interviews with dancers and performance artists billed to perform at this year’s FNB Dance Umbrella, we decided to invite artists to submit motivations for their works. <b>Matthew Krouse</b> reports.
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.
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.
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/ 21 December 2006
A is for assisted suicide; O is for Oscar; Z is for boy wonder Zola: 2006 was the year that South Africa’s playtimes and pastimes took unexpected turns with mystery, mayhem and murder, writes the Mail & Guardian‘s Matthew Krouse.
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/ 13 December 2006
The new contemporary dance programme at Arts Alive was largely lacking in spark, writes Matthew Krouse.
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/ 13 December 2006
The sexy, stylish Femi Kuti truly is his father’s son, writes Matthew Krouse.