In a business as tough as the entertainment industry, artist management can be crucial, but the role and importance of an artist manager is often misunderstood.
Dumisani Dabidini
News | 12 March 2014
The first of two games between the Western Province Senior Men’s Ice Hockey team and the visiting Germany SCALA Wanderers got off to a great start for the hosts.
Siyabonga Kalipa
News | 12 March 2014
As Donald Glover delivers his second studio album, although not the most exquisite, it definitely shows the comedian-meets-rapper growing mic skills.
Zethu Gqola
News | 12 March 2014
Prolific and acclaimed South African poet and writer Mongane Wally Serote, one of only two African writers (the other being Leopold Sedar Senghor) to be honoured with the Golden Wreath Award for a lifetime achievement in poetry, focuses his attention on 21st century South Africa in his latest novel, Rumours.
Mongane Wally Serote
News | 12 March 2014
Kinky Disco brought together youth from in and around Cape Town and hosted a one-of-a-kind electronic dance music party in Langa Township.
Zethu Gqola
News | 11 March 2014
A pensioner who only had two years of schooling taught himself to read and write, while his grandson, who has reached grade 9, can’t read.
Selby Nomnganga
News | 11 March 2014
One night in February on her way home from work, Bulelwa Thoza was stabbed and robbed inside a Golden Arrow bus by an unidentified gang member.
Pharie Sefali
News | 11 March 2014
Not everyone in Cape Town celebrated Gay Pride in the same spirit.
Pharie Sefali
News | 10 March 2014
Starting off in 2004 as Kasi Vibes, kwaito duo Sello Mangwana (29) and Andile “Max” Stemela (31) reinvented themselves as Ruffest in 2007. It was the beginning of the rise of two musicians from Nyanga.
Dumisane Dabadini
News | 10 March 2014
“I am not a Coloured, I am Khoi,” says Colin Meyer. “The apartheid era imposed the identity of being Coloured on us, but that is an invention.”
Fergus Turner
News | 7 March 2014
“Boxing saved my life… without boxing I would be dead”. Thembani Gqeku was telling me about his childhood and his experiences as a young professional boxer. Gqeku started boxing in East London in 1978, when he was nine years old. He had fought 18 professional fights, with five losses and a draw.
Adam Armstrong
News | 6 March 2014
A few years back you wouldn’t be seen as an ignorant person in Khayelitsha if you didn’t know what fencing is. But that is slowly changing, with the introduction of this unusual sport in the township.
Siyabonga Kalipa
News | 5 March 2014
A Zimbabwean woman, Sandra Chinyanga, is unhappy because her daughter was dropped from the Techno Girl Programme after three years of consistent participation. Now she has been told that her daughter should never have been allowed to join the programme, because she is an immigrant.
Tariro Washinyira
News | 5 March 2014
This slim volume, containing nine essays, is at once ambitious and humble. In their introduction, editors Megan Jones and Jacob Dlamini explain that they tried to capture a variety of deeply personal lived experiences.
Joshua Maserow
News | 5 March 2014