The men’s magazine market is vigorously over-traded. If you’re white, that is. Still, Sean O’Toole wonders whether SA’s new majietas’ title really is a major departure from the formula.
Is private television’s role as an instrument of nation building in Africa being challenged by the profit motive of multinational broadcasters? Sean O’Toole investigates the arguments, with a focus on MultiChoice Africa. The local conglomerate also has a chance to respond.
Looking recently at a photograph by David Goldblatt of Mugabe, I was struck by the dignified presence of the seated leader, writes Sean O’Toole. In an exhibition titled <i>Staged Realities</i>, curators Kathy Grundlingh and Michael Stevenson elegantly juxtapose competing ways of seeing and representing African identity in photography.
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/ 20 February 2004
”As I step into Claudette Schreuders’s lounge, I am immediately drawn to the neat display of objects placed on and suspended above her fireplace. Collectively, these seem to offer a telling portrait of the artist. ”A local artist reveals an intimate universe to Sean O’Toole — and the wider world.
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/ 1 December 2003
Zimbabwe’s worsening fuel crisis has occasioned some unusual social customs. Of these, the daily activities of Golden Chamisa (20) certainly rank among the more desperate. As fair exchange for his services the truckers simply allow Chamisa to siphon-off the last dregs of fuel from the empty tankers they are returning to South Africa.