If you are headed for KwaZulu-Natal this season, and are hoping to meet that someone special, you are in for a good time. But also a risky one. A recent survey conducted in Durban has revealed that people in that city believe that oral sex is safe sex.

Lionel Ngakane, who died on November 26 at the age of 83, was born in Pretoria in 1920 and educated at the Fort Hare University College and the University of the Witwatersrand. From 1948 to 1950 he worked on the early editions of the legendary magazines Zonk and Drum.

The government’s response to his criticism of President Thabo Mbeki’s Aids pronouncements recalled PW Botha, satirist Pieter-Dirk Uys said this week. Uys was hitting back at scathing statements by government representatives in reaction to an open letter he had written to Mbeki, calling for the president’s replacement.

Local songbirds and international divas are billed to perform at Nelson Mandela’s 85th birthday bash in Sandton on Saturday.

Fifty artists belonging to United Theatre Practitioners, a blanket body representing 12 Gauteng community theatre groups, invaded the boardroom of the National Arts Council (NAC) in Newtown, Johannesburg, this week.

Winter in the cookery book industry was announced with the release of Topsi Venter’s Fooding about with Topsi (Eie Ruimte Publishing). Something of a coffee-table art book, it includes works by such artists as Brett Murray, Beezy Bailey and Xolile Mtakatya.