When I wrote Tsepo Wa Mamatu’s profile for 300 Young South Africans I began by quoting the verse: “Poetry makes nothing happen”.
Dance is suggestive of physical energy, of a body in continuous and rhythmic movement. Poetry operates in much the same way.
The play <i>Hayani</i> is an evocative recollection of childhood by actor and director John Kani’s son, Atandwa, and Nat Ramabulana.
Monday night at the National Arts Festival in Grahamstown saw the uniting of Ronald Snijders and United States-born Salim Washington.
The global economic crisis has resulted in a paradigm shift in which the "rich and powerful have been humbled", Eskom chairperson Bobby Godsell says.
The ghost of the fragile government of national unity in Zimbabwe hovers over the National Arts Festival in Grahamstown in <i>Woza Joshua!</i>.
James Ngcobo, director of <i>Touch My Blood</i>, which premieres this weekend, talks to Percy Zvomuya.
Percy Zvomuya talks to three young people to find out what the future looks like through the eyes of this generation.
Businessman and political commentator Moeletsi Mbeki launched <i>Architects of Poverty</i> (Picador) at the Cape Town Book Fair.
Out of boyish curiosity, Freddy Ernesto Ilunga, then in his mid-teens, joined the Cuba-backed Congolese rebellion.