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/ 30 October 2006
A fresh, hard-hitting TV series about love (and sex) in the city has its audience enthralled, writes Nicole Temkin.
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/ 24 October 2006
New television and music forums could help South African industries, writes Charlene Smith.
"A film like this, bizarrely, hasn’t been made before," Roodt says. Come to think of it, he’s right. Despite the pandemic in South Africa, can you recall ever seeing a full-length film featuring an HIV-positive protagonist? Nicole Temkin chats to director Darryl Roodt about <i>Yesterday</i>.
Liza Key’s documentary on Wouter Basson — <i>The Man Who Knows Too Much</i> — screens on SABC1 this month. She talks to Nicole Temkin about trying to pin down a slippery subject.
Unity Dow’s latest novel focuses on ritual murder and corruption in Botswana. She spoke to Nicole Temkin.
So determined is Tim Greene to get his feature film <i>Twist</i> on to the big screen, that he’s come up with a novel idea to raise finance — appealing to 1 000 people to pledge to invest R1 000 each. Nicole Temkin asked him how far he has to go.
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/ 18 October 2002
Award-winning author Zakes Mda has published a new novel. He spoke to Nicole Temkin.
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/ 20 September 2002
Evolution, according to the dictionary, implies "a gradual development to a more complex form". If we indeed are more intelligent than any other species on Earth, the obvious conundrum must be: why is our planet in such a mess? All the more relevant in the wake of the World Summit on Sustainable Development, it’s crucial that we find and implement solutions to pressing environmental issues. Perhaps if we’re more informed about the consequences of our actions, then we might behave somewhat differently.
David Cohen went searching for democracy in the US. He discussed his travels with Nicole Temkin.
Nicole Temkin sampled some of the films on offer at the Encounters festival, and was entranced by the creativity and insight of Africa’s documentary makers.
Six years ago journalist and screenwriter Patrick Lee left South Africa for England. There, in his spare time, he began to weave together an absurdly humourous story of a displaced Englishwoman and the characters she encounters while visiting her place of birth, Port Victoria — a dorp inhabited by both strange and familiar stereotypes in a changed and changing country. In the novel, Discards (Penguin), Lee successfully captures the dialogue and archetypal mentalities of a specific time and place — not all of them comfortable. Filled with characters such as Mendi Mkhize (former freedom fighter, now magistrate), Dom Marais (wealthy marijuana farmer), Woodstock (psychotic, misogynistic Afrikaner) and Breakdown (crazy, black vagrant), Lee has created a South African novel finely tailored and rhythmically written for a niche market — South Africans.