been Neal Collins After the dazzling closing ceremony, Sydney’s Daily Telegraph said goodbye in 38 languages, including Zulu and Afrikaans. Which got me thinking. What if we were saying salani kahle Sydney 2000, sawubona Cape Town 2004? It makes you think what a Games like this could have done for the rainbow nation, had Cape […]

Thebe Mabanga In your ear One of the most interesting features of the South African community radio sector is the campus radio circuit. What began as nothing more than a cafeteria intercom as far back as the 1970s around South African tertiary institutions has now grown into an influential, dynamic force. The benefits of campus […]

The first week of the Olympics has thrown up some pleasant surprises to counter the disappointments Grant Shimmin As I looked down from the media centre overlooking the Sydney International Aquatic Centre’s warm-up pool early on Wednesday evening, Graham Hill walked by, clad in his South African shirt and with a tattoo of the national […]

Harry Pearson On Saturday I met a man from Ashington who recently moved to Portobello in Edinburgh. He said the first week he was up in Scotland, he was chatting to a local woman he’d met at his running club. By way of introducing him to the area she listed the many celebrities who come […]

Broadcast rights might be changed by the new boxing Bill Deon Potgieter Section 29 of the new boxing Bill has caused a stir within the boxing fraternity. If passed, it could have major ramifications on the sport as we know it. Some say it would lead to the demise of boxing in South Africa. Others […]

Stephen Gray My sample of this year’s Aardklop festival – three shows and a literary caf’ event – was indeed modest. That I realised when, queueing outside yet another school-hall, I helped one frenzied audience member sort out his 53 Computicket printouts. And he was going to make only half the total events of the […]

Greg Bowes When legendary DJ Little Louie Vega played here last year he altered the country’s entire clubbing complexion with a steady stream of soulful, carnival grooves. As further evidence of the scope of Vega’s influence on global music culture, Latin house instantly became the sound of South Africa’s summer and continues to be popular […]

Q&A Siyabonga Twala is the latest in a not-so- long line of South African male actors who openly harbour ambitions to make a name for themselves here, and more lucratively, abroad. This Umlazi, Durban native has had a taste of life abroad with his United States tour of Duma Ka Ndlovu’s Bergville Stories (1997). Apart […]

Nechama Brodie The Bang-Bang Club by Greg Marinovich and Joao Silva (William Heinemann) Contemporary visual theorists have spent decades educating people about “ways of seeing”. Images have become texts, subject to interpretation, evaluation, criticism and judgement. We are expected not just to see, but to actually develop a conscious relationship with the visual media that […]

Women’s boxing is big business in the United States, and Michelle Carson is looking for a piece of the action Gavin Foster Former South African kick-boxing champion Michelle Carson is the first South African woman to hold a professional boxing licence, and once the sport’s been legalised – probably at the end of this month […]