No, they have not arrived. This is an integrated class A 40 watt per channel stereo amplifier, and it comes, not from Mars, but from Panfield’s Andrew Meintjies. Meintjies, a photographer, camera-builder, and “Renaissance techno-geek”, makes the amps by hand. Their form-follows-function design is unique: the aluminium casing – available in 10 different colours – […]

The Angella Johnson Interview Look at the photograph. Familiar, isn’t he? It’s Bankole Omotoso, or as he’s more popularly known, Yebo Gogo – the face that launched a slew of Vodacom cellphones. Here is a true Renaissance man; a master of many trades who refuses to be tied down to just one job. When this […]

Foreign traders flocked to South Africa in the hope of making their fortunes, but have found crime instead, reports Anna Georgiou From Timbuktu to Tripoli, traders from across Africa have flocked to South Africa to strike gold and have been met with hostility by locals. Saturday business at the Market Theatre flea market in Johannesburg […]

Ex-Drum photographer Jrgen Schadeberghas won the battle for ownership of his photographs, reports Hazel Friedman Legendary photographer Jrgen Schadeberg has finally won his David versus Goliath battle against publisher Jim Bailey. The long, bitter war waged by the ex-Drum photographer against the former owner of the pioneering African magazine in the Fifties and Sixties, centred […]

Greg Bowes: Music He’s widely regarded as the father of house music, the four-to-the-floor style that currently eclipses all others on the world’s dancefloors. He’s remixed or worked with some of pop music’s biggest guns. His deejaying skills are legendary. He is Frankie Knuckles, and he’s on his way to South Africa next month to […]

Janet Smith The way you see the world had better be elegant, fast, utterly modern and definitely sexy if you want to survive youthtopia into the next millennium. Even if there’s a cause, it may no longer be conducted in Jesus sandals and roll-on deodorant. The way Cape Town’s Nobleman Motsa is seeing the world […]

Ellen Bartlett More than 100 000 years ago, probably on a rainy day, a human walked in wet sand near what is now Langebaan Lagoon. The footprints he, or more likely she, left behind were covered in more sand, in succeeding layers blown in on the sea winds, and then preserved as the dunes slowly […]

Mukoni T Ratshitanga The University of Zululand has failed to send audited statements for millions of rands given to it by the Kagiso Trust for student loans and bursaries. Last week, the Mail & Guardian published a statement by the university’s rector, Charles Dlamini, saying Kagiso’s claim that it had not received statements was “false […]

Soccer: A draw against Congo, and one point, is all South Africa need to book their place at the World Cup finals, writes Andrew Muchineripi There is no higher peak in African football than qualifying for the World Cup finals and South Africa can realise that dream this Saturday provided they avoid defeat against Congo […]