 | I really don’t like news24 columnist David Moseley. He’s a bad writer. His writing is so bad that even news24 readers, who are normally just happy being casual racists, comment on it: “definitely one of THE worst articles ever to grace the virtual pages of News24” / “what a load of old bollocks, please can I have the two minutes of my life back that I spent reading this utter effluent drivel” / “not only was the style literary poor ...read more |
The Laureate of Okes
Friday, February 24th, 2012 by Chipa Gazi
Hallo Negro!
Thursday, February 23rd, 2012 by Nick Pawson
 | South Africa has long held the monopoly on racism, but now the rest of the world seems to have caught the racism bug. From black British MP’s tweeting prejudiced remarks about whites, to Scandinavian extremists going on killing sprees in a twisted protest against Islamic immigration. But it’s two incidents in English football that have been hogging all the headlines of late – and where better to watch racism than live, and in HD. ...read more |
The Tao of Murray
Wednesday, February 22nd, 2012
 | You take liberating vents of light where you can from popular culture, owned and leveraged, as it is, by bundled entertainment companies, linked, in lawyer-y ways, to other bigger companies bent on turning the planet into Bladerunner (the rights to which were acquired by Warner Bros last year allowing for – shudder – “prequel and sequel projects”). Illuminations include Louis CK’s stand-up, the films of Ramin Bahrani, Justin Cronin’s knockout vampire thriller The Passage and just about everything Rockstar games ...read more |
Caps as Culture
Tuesday, February 21st, 2012 by Rob Cockcroft
 | Last Wednesday the New Era Introducing exhibition came to Cape Town. The private function was held at The Bank which kicked off a 3 day exhibition and drew the likes of media workers, art fags, streetwear aficionados and, um, Bryan Habana. The invitation was scant on details of what a cap exhibition actually entails, but I was nevertheless sold by the fact that it contained the words “VIP” and “invite only”, meaning someone out there had finally realised that I ...read more |
The Lazarus of Slam
Monday, February 20th, 2012 by Lindokuhle Nkosi
 | The Johannesburg slam poetry scene is incestuous. The same faces behind the mic, the same shoeless feet in the crowd. The same content; poems about poetry, about love, about Afrika. Poems about love poems to Afrika. Sessions where the headline act will be a no-name, open-mic slot filler the next week. The scene is still stuck in the “bourgeoning sub-culture” phase, still a seedling lacking growth. The circle is small, and divided. Politicking, ego and delusions of ownership rule the ...read more |
Remembering White Whitney
Friday, February 17th, 2012 by Sean O'Toole
 | It is 1986, the summer of the greatest love of all. A group of Pretoria matrics is saying goodbye to algebra, Afrikaans second language, the lifecycle of the amoeba and cadets supervised by angry men in brown uniforms from the nearby military base. Good-fucking-bye to everything boxed and buried in a whites-only education. Their rage is palpable. ...read more |
Trans-Kgalagadi Reviews
Wednesday, February 15th, 2012 by Toast Coetzer
 | Toast Coetzer’s day job takes him to some interesting spaces. So we piled him with CDs to listen to while he drives… Here are some reviews from the Trans-Kgalagadi Highway in Botswana. ...read more |
Tall Man Crush
Monday, February 13th, 2012 by Andrei Van Wyk, images by Paris Brummer
 | Formal seating always throws everyone off. The venue, built for a classic ensemble or self-help seminar, contrasts with the dingy bar gigs we are all used to. People are spilling drinks on the red carpet as they stumble through the ticket check. As I speak to people, and eavesdrop on conversations, one refrain becomes apparent; the majority of the audience do not know any of the acts playing. ...read more |
Another Kak Graffiti Piece
Wednesday, February 8th, 2012 by Marjorie Parker, images by Justin McGee
 | Philip Botha is not an easy interview subject. He is too notorious, too impatient. Too tired of tolerating journalists who throw words around with little regard for consequence. He is in one breath an idol and a scapegoat the next, ready to face damage by attack or ignorance. ...read more |
