"Afrique, Afrique, Afrique!" cried Tumi Molekane of Tumi and the Volume, ending an electric hip-hop set at the Africa Day celebrations in Newtown.
The Freedom Park housing settlement on the outskirts of Eldorado Park has become the centre of xenophobic mobilisation in Gauteng.
Gilberto Gil, one of Brazil’s best-known musicians, landed on South African tarmac last week.
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/ 10 December 2010
Migrants face a multitude of health issues in Jozi inner city.
Like weeds growing through cracks, Jo Ractliffe’s photos draw attention to Angolan war history
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/ 4 September 2006
After dusk on Saturday February 21, the FNB Dance Umbrella opens with Screen Factor 8. Directed and choreographed by Sue Pam-Grant, produced by Blue Moon and featuring the Moving Into Dance Mophatong Performance Company, the piece is a large-scale, 20-minute-long multi-media production, writes Matthew Wilhelm-Solomon.
"Arts festivals are about discovery, about exploration … I want everyone here to have fun," said Pallo Jordan at the opening of the National Arts Festival. "Let us have a good time. Look at things. See how others see us and perhaps we’ll discover something about ourselves in an environment and in a context in which we’re enjoying ourselves." Matthew Wilhelm-Solomon was there.
With a six-person cast, <i>There’s No Room in This Bed</i> managed to squeeze in examinations of the power dynamics of personal relationships, but at times the piece battles to find its voice. Matthew Wilhelm-Solomon reviews.
Reza de Wets’s imaginative landscape is instantly recognisable, writes Matthew Wilhelm-Solomon of the striking and lingering <i>Breathing In</i>.
Sophocles’s classic is rearticulated in a context of terrorism, Aids and globalisation in Antigone. John Kani stars. Matthew Wilhelm-Solomon reviews.