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/ 21 January 2009
Supporters were swathed in the loudmouth yellow last seen on tennis courts when André Agassi was in his prime.
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/ 19 December 2008
Niren Tolsi visits Durban’s Fun World and reclaims
his forgotten childhood.
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/ 7 December 2008
Amsterdam’s reputation as a seething, hot-boxed bordello does the city a disservice.
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/ 6 December 2008
Niren Tolsi made an omelette of his brain before Amsterdam’s magic mushroom ban took effect this week.
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/ 10 November 2008
A visit to the Nelson Mandela Museum in Mthatha
provides Niren Tolsi with temporary shelter from the hurly-burly of the Eastern Cape.
Durban’s Mini-town is almost 40 years old and despite its charming flaws is still a hit with the little ones, writes Niren Tolsi.
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/ 20 October 2008
The Housing Department and SDI hosted a workshop last weekend focused on building partnerships between slum-dwellers and various governments.
The ANC in KwaZulu-Natal is becoming concerned that a breakaway party proposed by Mosiuoa Lekota may take with it disaffected activists.
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/ 16 October 2008
And the fourth is on its way as Niren Tolsi reports on the municipal strike that has left eThekwini in tatters.
According to Mosquito, the issues he interrogates revolve around two aspects of life: food and sex.
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/ 12 September 2008
There’s more than one way to skin a cat. You can put pressure on the courts by staging a riot or by using kwaito. Or both.
The cast has been working together for three weeks and this is its first complete run-through of <i>Feast Kakhulu!</i> — a "simple story".
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/ 4 September 2008
Niren Tolsi yawns his way through an exhibition
that fails to interrogate Gandhi’s legacy.
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/ 1 September 2008
Niren Tolsi checks out the incredible journey of a street child turned photographer, Haran Kumar.
The event in question was the launch of the Post-Polokwane Conversations, a series of "round table discussions" beginning in Durban.
Zwelithini laments poverty of his people at
lavish birthday bash
… if played often enough, they become infectious.
The first edition of the Uprising Festival eight years ago was organised by a group of 15-year-old skater punks with one stage.
Proposed sites for the red-light district include the Mahatma Gandhi Road area and lower Pixley ka-Seme Street.
The Durban International Film Festival opens on July 23 with the South African premiere of the gritty local gangster flick, <i>Jerusalema</i>.
Niren Tolsi checks out this year’s Durban
International Film Festival, which has work dedicated to the recent xenophobic attacks across the country.
A pregnant woman is beaten by guards as foreigners displaced by xenophobia stage a sit-in on the steps of Durban’s City Hall.
“All the people inside wanted to eat him like they did. I don’t know how many men [raped him], but it was messy.” A formidable, broad woman, Ma Khambule* allows her eyes to water just a little as she recounts the pain of discovering that her 15-year-old son, Siya*, was allegedly raped “many, many times” […]
A damning exit report by a team of experts blasts the Department of Home Affairs for failing asylum-seekers in South Africa.
Niren Tolsi is assailed by the enthusiasm of the nomadic Palestinian/Haitian/American poet Nathalie Handal.
A historical tour of the ghetto is one way to experience the area’s history, writes Niren Tolsi.
The chairperson of the Pretoria branch of the Red Cross has resigned in "disgust" at the branch’s failure to respond to the humanitarian crisis sparked by attacks on foreigners. Gillian Elson, who quit last Friday, has claimed ineptitude is rife at the Red Cross and has made claims of corruption and theft.
Gerren Taylor’s career as a supermodel has been fraught with obsessions about body image, writes Niren Tolsi
Ike’s Books and Collectables still has stalwart supporters among bibliophiles, writes Niren Tolsi.
The beautiful game played a vital role in raising morale on Robben Island. Now a new film looks at sport and struggle, writes Niren Tolsi.
The <i>Mail & Guardian</i>’s Niren Tolsi sought response from writers attending the Time of the Writer festival about their role.
The Time of the Writer Festival has become a drawcard for regional literary boffs. Niren Tolsi caught up with some Zimbabweans attending the event.