Matthew Wilhelm-Solomon’s new book explores the abandoned buildings of Johannesburg and their inhabitants
An innovative festival takes audiences through Jo’burg and brings fairy-tale fantasies to life.
The recent launch of expansion plans for the Maboneng precinct raises the question: Just who will be left out of the inner-city plan?
An analysis of a deadly mine conflict in 1994 offers clues to the origins of the Marikana tragedy.
Foreigners in Middelburg, Mpumalanga, allege that the local council is working hand in glove with local business people to shut down their shops.
Suburbanites’ fears are defining the architecture of Johannesburg.
"Afrique, Afrique, Afrique!" cried Tumi Molekane of Tumi and the Volume, ending an electric hip-hop set at the Africa Day celebrations in Newtown.
The Freedom Park housing settlement on the outskirts of Eldorado Park has become the centre of xenophobic mobilisation in Gauteng.
Gilberto Gil, one of Brazil’s best-known musicians, landed on South African tarmac last week.
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/ 10 December 2010
Migrants face a multitude of health issues in Jozi inner city.
Like weeds growing through cracks, Jo Ractliffe’s photos draw attention to Angolan war history
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After dusk on Saturday February 21, the FNB Dance Umbrella opens with Screen Factor 8. Directed and choreographed by Sue Pam-Grant, produced by Blue Moon and featuring the Moving Into Dance Mophatong Performance Company, the piece is a large-scale, 20-minute-long multi-media production, writes Matthew Wilhelm-Solomon.
"Arts festivals are about discovery, about exploration … I want everyone here to have fun," said Pallo Jordan at the opening of the National Arts Festival. "Let us have a good time. Look at things. See how others see us and perhaps we’ll discover something about ourselves in an environment and in a context in which we’re enjoying ourselves." Matthew Wilhelm-Solomon was there.
With a six-person cast, <i>There’s No Room in This Bed</i> managed to squeeze in examinations of the power dynamics of personal relationships, but at times the piece battles to find its voice. Matthew Wilhelm-Solomon reviews.
Reza de Wets’s imaginative landscape is instantly recognisable, writes Matthew Wilhelm-Solomon of the striking and lingering <i>Breathing In</i>.
Sophocles’s classic is rearticulated in a context of terrorism, Aids and globalisation in Antigone. John Kani stars. Matthew Wilhelm-Solomon reviews.
<i>Nguni: A Love Story</i> explores some of the tensions between the rights of women and some aspects of Zulu tradition in today’s climate. Matthew Wilhelm-Solomon reviews.
As the National Arts Festival drew the curtains for 2004, Matthew Wilhelm-Solomon reflects on the cast of characters that filled the theatres and auditoriums, as well as the colourful arrays and performances
In the industrial landscape around the Johannesburg inner city, about 24 000 migrant men live in single-sex hostels. A further 15 000 men and women live in informal settlements. Sixty-eight percent of the men and 80% of the women unemployed. But a programme called Mpilonhle-Mpilonde is upgrading the quality of life in hostels and informal settlements through group-based learning.
Matthew Wilhelm-Solomon speaks to Madala Kunene and Bernard Mndaweni about their new album which pays homage to traditional spirituality.
Ten years into our democracy, gender inequity remains a challenge. Since 1994 we have seen significant changes in policy development that reflect the government’s commitment to responding to this challenge. But implementation of progressive policies has been uneven and the high levels of unemployment, HIV/Aids and sexual violence against women have created a dire situation that government departments have struggled to respond to.
Berg River Textiles in Paarl, one of the largest cotton mills in South Africa, has shown how environmental improvement can go hand in hand with increased profits.
The evolution of Hillside Aluminium’s reports reflect changes in environmental thinking in recent years. The company’s annual sustainability reports encompass economic, environmental and social impacts over which Hillside has direct control and influence.
Oasis Association, a community foundation that assists people with intellectual disabilities, is exceptional because of its holistic approach to integrating social concerns with environmental issues.
The Institute for Water Research offers postgraduate courses in the fields of zoology, entomology, environmental science and geography a chance to get hands-on experience in the field of water research and conservation.
If the call of the open seas and crystalline ice landscapes appeals, Rhodes University offers postgraduate students of zoology and entomology a unique chance to sail the Southern Ocean and travel sub-Antarctic islands.
The lack of suitable penalties for possession, illicit trade and the absence of legislation regulating firearm brokering are contributing to the proliferation of illegal guns in Southern Africa.
Nelson Mandela represents the yin and yang of the political world. His personal iconography has come to represent the fusing of power with compassion; austerity with playfulness; childlike joy with the grief and weariness of years of suffering.
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Environmental and community groups are vehemently opposing plans for a toll road running through the wetland areas of False Bay and the south-eastern Cape Flats. The proposed road affects fragile ecosystems with a rich bird, insect, reptile and plant life including a number of endangered species.