Nadine Botha goes to Mike van Graan’s derisive new play about contrasting youths.
Using improvisation and getting actors to play themselves, the new television series <i>Sorted </i> promises to remove the affectedness characteristic of local comedy, reports Nadine Botha.
The Fashion @ Spark Expo seeks to expose the public to a heritage-proud aesthetic with an emphasis on individuality. Nadine Botha takes a closer look.
Nadine Botha reviews three of the most topical plays from the Grahamstown National Arts Festival that are now showing at Newtown’s 969 Festival.
Best known for his performance poetry, Carl Hancock Rux has published poems, short fiction, plays, essays and, recently, a novel called Asphalt, he speaks to Nadine Botha about his life and being in South Africa.
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/ 10 February 2006
Nadine Botha checks out the much-publicised Picasso and Africa exhibition.
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/ 28 October 2005
A North West University student has lodged an official complaint with university authorities after an art history lecturer allegedly used his classes to attack homosexuality as ”an immoral fad” to be blamed on the African National Congress government. The university’s rector, Annette Combrink, confirmed that a complaint had been lodged against John Botha but refused to comment pending an investigation.
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/ 17 October 2005
A father sodomising his son, a serial killer rapist strangling victims with their G-strings, real-time domestic violence, a hijacker who beats up his girlfriend’s father, a vigilante Zulu ibutho with a machete,explicit sex scenes … these are just some of the images in Mpumelelo Paul Grootboom’s Relativity: Township Stories, currently showing at the State Theatre in Pretoria.
Internationally acclaimed performance artist Tracey Rose was muscled out of the Urban Voices International Poetry festival in Johannesburg this week after clashing with a visiting black American poet over the identity of South Africa’s coloured community. At the event, a member of the United States-based The Last Poets branded South Africans racist for using the term ”coloured” rather than ”black”.
Most listeners would be reluctant to call the Real Estate Agents hip-hop, as their press release tries to sell them. Their sound is harder, more asynchronous, than the commercially sold sound. The Agents are turning the tables, writes Nadine Botha.