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Everyday for the past 6 months, the Durban Metro Police have been rounding up street children, often beating them, and throwing them in the back of vans. According to Tom Hewitt, founder and CEO of the street children’s organization Umthombo, children are being harassed, beaten and pepper sprayed in these ruthless round-up operations. read more…
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Contra by name, contra by nature: young pop-smiths hurdle The Difficult Second Album(tm).
It’s easy for certain South Africans to hate Vampire Weekend. They’re trendy, bookish and pretentious. Oh, and they name-check Peter Gabriel instead of Oliver Mtukudzi. read more…
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Look, I’m not going to fuck around, you’re going to need better speakers
than the ones you have in order to fully appreciate the new Van Coke Kartel album, Skop Skiet en Donner. At times it gets so ridiculously heavy and overblown that it becomes nothing short of glorious. read more…
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The Waterfront is a re-purposed commercial zone. It used to be exclusively about ships and shipping, and now you can shop, date and see movies there. (All made possible by a dubious Dubai consortium, of course). Anyway, commercial re-purposing of surpassed industrial sites is universal. San Francisco, New York, Singapore, London. Cape Town. Not Detroit. Poor Detroit. read more…
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Where Cape Flats culture meets the Nyanga vibe. Coloured and Xhosa culture mash-up as only the iKapa ‘kasi can produce. Another coup for the Pioneer Unit. We be rocking this shit loud!
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I’ve never been a big fan of vampire movies - the melodrama, the drooling adolescent sexuality, the powdered rakes in effeminate period attire. Give me flesh-eating zombies any day. With the living dead, it’s always party time. read more…
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I’ve been following and writing about Tidal Waves for a long time now, I own all their albums and know their set backwards, so I’m always looking for a different angle. This Friday produced exactly that, a unique, once-off collaboration with Zinkplaat, set on a wine farm just outside Stellenbosch. read more…
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OK this is a biggie. We’re giving away two sets of double tickets to the
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One World Cup you may not have heard of is kicking off in Durban next
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Kak.
I’m all for folk remedies but what exactly do they mean by “rubes” the soles of the feet?
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There comes a time when we must look at the glorious past and let it
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