Who has the best primetime news, e.tv or SABC3? Charles Leonard, who had stints as news editor at both stations, gives his view.
This album, just under 43 minutes long, is more a series of exquisite and often haunting experimental soundscapes.
Two stores selling brand-new vinyl records have opened in Johannesburg in the past few months, echoing the international trend in music sales.
In his heart, De Klerk was never a reformer, but rather a practitioner of realpolitik, even if it meant unbanning the ANC, writes Charles Leonard.
Die Skynmaagde juxtapose the banal from Afrikaans music knowingly and playfully with Marxist concepts and communist heroes, writes Charles Leonard.
The ANC met with conservative Afrikaners last week – an event one critic labelled as ‘dangerous’. Charles Leonard reports.
Charles Leonard recalls the road trip that resulted in Cedric Nunn’s award-winning photograph.
Life has never been simple for a self-confessed sports polygamist and like any relationship it needs a balance, writes Charles Leonard.
The artist who gives landscape a voice has created a work that disturbs environmental complacency.
The raw energy and rough language of a rugby thriller alarms polite literary circles.
It was once described as the National Party at prayer. But the Dutch Reformed Church numbers are dwindling. Charles Leonard finds out why.
Who better to open Hermann Niebuhr’s exhibition than a former city chief and one of his biggest fans?
<b>Charles Leonard</b> asks whether the organisers of the Cape Town Jazz Fest shouldn’t be more adventurous in their choice of performers.
<b>Charles Leonard</b> explains why Taste of Sónar is a far more exciting prospect for music junkies than the Cape Town International Jazz Festival.
Byetone trained as a tailor, but his true love is creating minimalist, abstract techno.
Despite the hate camps, without apartheid to institutionalise racism and bigotry, SA’s ultra-right has lost its support, its momentum and its sting.
The recent and sudden revision of Thabo Mbeki’s place in history reminds Charles Leonard of the re-evaluation of jazz legend Miles Davis’s legacy
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/ 22 December 2011
<b>Charles Leonard</b> explains the anxiety and snobbery that goes with compiling your own year-end list of top music albums.
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/ 5 December 2006
Charles Leonard reviews the latest released on the music-loving Light in the Attic Records.
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/ 20 November 2006
Rebel rocker Francois Henning has taken a unique road into Afrikaans music. Charles Leonard spoke to him.
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/ 22 September 2006
Charles Leonard talks to Alex Okosi, the BEE-boy behind the rapidly expanding music channel.
‘<i>Ek sal ’n oranje pet dra</i> [I’ll be wearing an orange cap]" was how it sounded. The Japanese professor was telling me how to recognise him when he arrived at Johannesburg International. In Afrikaans. A thought flashed through my head: was Takasji Sakura’s cap "oranje" as in the colour, or from Orania as in the Northern Cape?
July was the grimmest month for conflict prevention globally in three years, according to the respected International Crisis Group, which is an independent NGO working to resolve deadly conflict. In 36 months of publishing its monthly Crisis Watch the ICG said in a statement that it has not recorded such severe deteriorations in so many conflict situations as in the past month.
She spells her first name with a lower case "j" and her last name with an "m" as "a statement of not accepting all that people name you, or define you as". Charles Leonard talks to American poet jessica Care moore, who performs at the Urban Voices festival this month.