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In the mystically charged Grahamstown, more drama took place in the streets than on the stages and in the theatres, writes John Matshikiza.
”Gone, by implication, are the days of slavery, colonialism and imperial arrogance. Gone is the world of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. We live in a new age of enlightenment.…
In the 1970s and 1980s Paul Boateng was a prominent figure in Britain’s tumultuous era of political and racial struggle. He was wiry and animated, the firm set of his mouth and…
After strutting its stuff in London and Toronto, Zola Maseko’s Drum, finally being shown in South Africa at last. Maseko privately agrees that, to get the movie made at all, he…
”It is something of a poignant moment at the famous address of 18 Tiergartenstrasse in the heart of Berlin. Eric Singh, veteran anti-apartheid campaigner and long-term resident…
In recent weeks we have been assailed with news of a peace accord in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Significantly, the accord was signed at a formal ceremony in the South…
John Matshikiza hits back at revisionist Indian scholar Dinesh D’Souza’s defence of colonialism. What if Shaka had been left alone to build an unprecedented empire on the…
Mandla Langa and Hugh Masekela collaborate on a high-profile musical which premieres at Grahamstown. John Matshikiza reports.
