Nadine Botha

The Very Real Time event aims to shed light on the way South Africans view socially engaged art, writes Nadine Botha.

<b>MOVIE OF THE WEEK:</b> Tim Burton’s <i>Corpse Bride</i> is pretty much paint-by-numbers Burton material with his signature romantic take on a dark fairy tale, and his fans won’t be disappointed, writes Nadine Botha.

On Baaba Maal’s third tour to South Africa, it’s all about ritual: the crowd stills as his two drummers start beating out their heartbeat, one pulse at a time. Nadine Botha relives the spectacular night.

Moving from the raunchy acid-face love of Boo! to the quietly considered despair of Ingrid Jonker’s poetry is quite a leap for Chris Chameleon, writes Nadine Botha.

The African music industry is in for a long overdue facelift. MTV base — MTV’s African music channel — kicked off with all the appropriate glitz and glamour last week. Nadine Botha takes a closer look.

It is an easily chewed and digested book; a light read for bedside nostalgia, writes Nadine Botha.

"<i>Blackheart</i> is my attempt to delve into the place of what and where I am." Nadine Botha speaks to poet Lesego Rampolokeng about his first novel

"The Awakening Film Festival is so-called because we believe this programme of films will evoke powerful memories of the past and stimulate imagination of possible futures." A showcase of African film provides an antidote to the Hollywood propaganda machine, writes Nadine Botha.

"We’re living in a society where everyone with dreadlocks or an Eryka Badhu headpiece calls themselves poets," says Napo Masheane, member of the Feela Sistah collective. As strangers in foreign lands, Africans are finding visibility through poetry, writes Nadine Botha.