Self-conscious and Edgars-chic, The Black Hotels have stormed on to Jo’burg’s live music scene, writes Lloyd Gedye.
Niren Tolsi reviews the documentary The Glow of White Women, showing at the Encounters film festival this year.
Harry Potter fan Yolandi Groenewald offers her interpretations of and predictions for the famous fiction.
Chinua Achebe, ‘the father of modern African literature’, talks to Ed Pilkington about inventing a new language, his years in exile from his beloved Nigeria — and why he changed his name from Albert.
The imminent conclusion of the Harry Potter series has sparked an outcry from JK Rowling’s fan base and our own Lynley Donnelly.
Jocelyn Newmarch offers her predictions for the last edition of Harry Potter.
Kwanele Sosibo speaks to Vincent Moloi about his documentary, A Pair of Boots and a Bicycle.
Getting all South Africans to agree on how to tackle affirmative action and build a non-racial society was one of the bigger challenges facing the country, President Thabo Mbeki said on Friday. He said the problem was ”we cannot get everyone to sing from the same hymn sheet on the important question of how to build a non-racial South Africa”.
Pakistan’s Supreme Court reinstated the country’s Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry on Friday four months after his suspension by President Pervez Musharraf. Chaudhry became a symbol of resistance to General Musharraf after refusing to quit in the face of pressure from the president and his intelligence chiefs.
Former British prime minister Tony Blair welcomed on Friday the announcement that prosecutors will not bring charges over the so-called "cash-for-honours" scandal that clouded his last year in office. But he lamented that those subject to investigation during the 16-month probe had been through a "traumatic" time.