The Lifestyle SA Festival, titled <i>Celebrating Black</i>, looks to redefine the way black consumers are represented in the public sphere.
A downtown "fash off" will highlight clothing as a unifier of circumstance and culture.
CNN journalist Nkepile Mabuse speaks to Kwanele Sosibo about representing Africa to the United States.
Sello Maake ka Ncube tells Kwanele Sosibo about life before and after <i>The Lion King</i>.
Katzy’s is a cosmopolitan cigar lounge in The Firs shopping mall, Rosebank, just table-hopping distance from its big brother, The Grillhouse.
Sophiatown is an ironically named bar lounge popular with Johannesburg’s ever-expanding hip set.
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/ 21 February 2008
As South Africa’s spoken-word scene matures, poets are making the leap from stage to studio and back.
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/ 15 February 2008
Vosloorus’s monthly gig is gaining momentum, writes Kwanele Sosibo.
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/ 26 October 2007
Mark Fransman isn’t picky when it comes to inspirational sources, writes Kwanele Sosibo.
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/ 25 October 2007
As HIV/Aids makes inroads into South Africa’s skills base, more companies are waking up to the idea of investing in employees through an innovative and comprehensive workplace programme. The New Clicks Group launched its Employee Wellness Programme (EWP) in September last year, after years of fine- tuning the programmme.
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/ 19 October 2007
Two local TV series are going for gold at the Emmy Awards, writes Kwanele Sosibo.
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/ 12 October 2007
For outgoing UCT vice-chancellor Njabulo Ndebele, <i>Fine Lines from the Box</i>, his new collection of writings, will go a long way towards distracting us from our national pastime: the need to forget. He speaks to Kwanele Sosibo about the issues in his book.
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/ 12 October 2007
Poet Lesego Rampolokeng emerges from creative exile this week in a new experimental work. He speaks to Kwanele Sosibo about loss and gain.
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/ 14 September 2007
<i>Footskating 101</i> — from the makers of <i>Straight Outta Benoni</i> — is a nod to small-town life, writes Kwanele Sosibo.
Whether you call his music township jive, jazz or bubblegum, Sipho ‘Hotstix’ Mabuse has provided the soundtrack for generations, writes Kwanele Sosibo.
Lolo Veleko uses photography and fashion to define her complex identity, writes Kwanele Sosibo.
Film tourism might be an ambiguous term, but it refers to the idea that every time a specific location or destination is used in a film, the film indirectly promotes the destination to its viewers. "This has been evident within the Bollywood film market," says Mark Visser of the Cape Film Commission.
"The majority of South Africans, I think, live a very mimicked lifestyle." Kwanele Sosibo speaks to artistic young people at a Jo’burg inner-city art gallery about the possibilities that being South African holds, and wonders whether the youth have arrived at a common identity 14 years after the advent of democracy.
Clubbing in the new South Africa is still a divided affair, reports Kwanele Sosibo
<i>Telling Stories</i> bears all the trademarks that we have come to love and/or hate about Paul Grootboom’s work: the gratuitous sex and violence, writes Kwanele Sosibo
<b>Kwanele Sosibo</b> looks at the business of serving and service Johannesburg.
Kwanele Sosibo speaks to teens about teddy bears, virginity and <i>Debbie Does Dallas</i>.
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/ 15 December 2006
The Botswana High Court’s ruling in favour of the Bushmen who were forcibly removed from the Central Kalahari Game Reserve, means that more than 1Â 000 displaced people can return immediately to their ancestral land. "It is their constitutional right to go back as soon as they like," said lawyer Gordon Bennett, who represented 239 applicants in the matter.
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/ 4 December 2006
The organisation has launched a campaign to encourage communities to support survivors of sexual assault.
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/ 24 November 2006
The footage captured by Theresa Collins and her partner Mocke van Veuren in the video installation, <i>Minutes</i> doesn’t so much objectify its subjects as much as it validates them, writes Kwanele Sosibo.
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/ 17 November 2006
Kwanele Sosibo sniffs out the latest underwear trends.
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/ 10 November 2006
Kwanele Sosibo talks to the makers of <i>Bunny Chow</i> about their low-budget road movie and what drives the audience.
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/ 10 November 2006
The battle for media freedom took another knock last week when the Cape Town High Court denied journalist Gasant Abarder’s right to appeal against an order to testify in a civil defamation case. Abarder had been subpoenaed to testify in a civil defamation dispute between two private litigants.
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/ 3 November 2006
<b>NOT THE MOVIE OF THE WEEK:</b> While Tyler Perry is a raw talent with a receptive market, he essentially delivers nothing new or innovative in <i>Diary of a Mad Black Woman</i>, writes Kwanele Sosibo.
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/ 27 October 2006
Author Christopher Hope tells it like he sees it when writing about Africa — and he’s seen a lot of it, writes Kwanele Sosibo.
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/ 20 October 2006
Kwanele Sosibo speaks to Khalo Matabane about dislocation and the dark heart of cinema.
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/ 13 October 2006
Zuluboy’s new album is easily the most unashamedly Zulu hip-hop album to be released on a national scale, writes Kwanele Sosibo.