The ANC has missed a perfect opportunity to revise its logo to reflect the recent past, its achievements and future aspirations.
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/ 23 December 2011
<b>Percy Zvomuya</b> spoke to Libyan novelist Hisham Matar in an attempt to understand what happened and where things are heading in North Africa.
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/ 23 December 2011
<b>Percy Zvomuya</b> delves into proverbs and finds the chauvinistic, the obscene and the dirty.
The Manchester City striker’s sharp Mohican says it all: this Italian takes no prisoners.
The imminent closure of the landmark shop in Auckland Park has caused outrage and disbelief.
Many will rejoice if Julius retires from the public eye, but writers, satirists, playwrights and cartoonists will lose a rich source of inspiration.
An art exhibition running alongside COP17 in
Durban builds a poetic, not evangelical, message.
The writings and speeches of Mbeki (well, some of them) have become the subject of a new experimental play.
Kudzanai Chiurai’s new exhibition generalises about the horrific abuses in failed African states — and that’s part of its problem.
On the 46th anniversary of Ian Smith’s Unilateral Declaration of Independence, <b>Percy Zvomuya</b> surveys three books about Zimbabwe.
Dubbed this year’s Die Antwoord, Spoek Mathambo’s sound is uncategorically South African.
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/ 28 October 2011
A new documentary takes a look at the House of Nsako, a conscious-party venue that once regularly pulled crowds to High Street in Brixton, Jo’burg.
Some football speak warrants a sending off — listen and blow the whistle.
She has been called a coconut and a racist, but radio and TV talk-show host and newspaper columnist Redi Tlhabi succeeds where others stumble.
The <i>Mail & Guardian</i> spoke to Achille Mbembe, a Cameroonian political theorist and historian about what drives African autocrats like Paul Biya
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/ 21 October 2011
Horacio Castellanos Moya’s novel, <em>She-Devil in the Mirror, </em>is a matrix of murder and decadence, into which romance and drugs are thrown.
<b>Percy Zvomuya</b> has no interest in rugby or rugby shirts, clothing designed for superhumans built like wardrobes.
Chris Abani is part of this year’s Poetry Africa tour.
For four decades Thomas Mapfumo has been
at the heart of the evolution of a music style
that put Zimbabwean sounds on the map.
Recently ‘Discovered’ in the West, Teju Cole was already known elsewhere.
A few weeks ago, stunned and angered by the 8-2 Manchester United mauling of Arsenal, I wondered what an American Marxist would think.
<i>The First Grader</i> is based on the true story of a former Mau Mau fighter and villager, who first went to primary school when he was 84 years old
The countries Burundi-born artist Serge Alain Nitegeka has called home are easily more than your average African has visited.
Life as an exile in Europe is illuminated through
the eyes of artist Dumile Feni’s daughter, who never met her father.
The old JSE is more than just an alternative performance venue for Sello Pesa, it is a place redolent with memory.
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/ 2 September 2011
The sight of Manchester City’s Yaya Toure, ball at his feet, running past defenders is unusual.
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/ 2 September 2011
Richard Blair, the British DJ, musician and founder of Sidestepper Sound System, is the headline act at the relaunched Politburo Sessions.
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/ 2 September 2011
Port Elizabeth’s teenage sensation have the potential to survive prodigy burn-out.
Artistic director Malcolm Purkey isn’t at all concerned by the Literary Festival venue’s commercial facelift.
Moeletsi Mbeki is an ideas man, making him a thorn in the flesh of ruling elites — and his brother.
Spoek Mathambo was not happy with the way he was portrayed in a recent <i>Guardian</i> story.
Is the focus of local publishers on ‘contemporary’ novels depriving us of good South African stories?