Blonde Wrecking Ball

January 27th, 2012 by Andy Davis
Mahala > Sport, Spotlight

Schalk Burger

Schalk Burger is a South African rugby icon, and widely tipped to become the next Springbok captain. Mahala’s Andy Davis had a long chat with the blonde wrecking ball.

Mahala: So what I heard on my way here, in the car they were talking about David Pocock. His autobiography just came out and he’s admitted to being bulimic. And that just made me think about David Pocock, and I was suddenly all angry again about that game. Are you over it? How do you feel?

Schalk Burger: Well honestly, probably not hey. read more…


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Album Round-Up

January 27th, 2012 by Mahala
Mahala > Music

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Here at Mahala albums tend to pile up and clog the trestle tables. Mostly, they’re not exactly worth a full review but definitely a mention. Occasionally we compile a selection of music you should know about, either as a recommendation or a warning. read more…


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Take Back the Common

January 26th, 2012 by Christopher McMichael
Mahala > Ed's Pick, Reality

This Friday communities around the Cape will march from Athlone stadium to Rondebosch commons for a three day ‘occupation’. The aim is a public space to discuss solutions to a range of issues: housing, rent arrears, evictions, political corruption and the ongoing segregation in the city. read more…


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Meme of the Week | Would Not Bang

January 26th, 2012 by Brandon Edmonds
Mahala > Culture, Reality, Spotlight

Memes are a pure snort of internet. These evanescent time-wasters are the perfect accompaniment to the dead hours of the dead end service economy. Folk expressions of the post-industrial setting of work today. The mind life of bored kids stuck in underfunded educational settings and people in cubicles staring at screens. We don’t make stuff anymore. Not physically. That’s all been shipped to China and India where people work cheap. Work is mind-fatiguing in a knowledge economy. Ideas hold sway. Muscles get you laid but they don’t get you paid. The richest man in the world is Bill and he’s a geek in glasses. read more…


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Be Original, Don’t Be Dismal

January 25th, 2012 by Lindokuhle Nkosi
Mahala > Ed's Pick, Music

Toya Delazy

Toya Delazy is a busy, young woman. I’ve been given twenty minutes to talk to her, over the phone, while a minder from Sony Music listens in on the line. She sounds excited, if not a little overwhelmed. For people who haven’t been in and around the Durban music scene, Toya Delazy’s jump to South Africa’s musical mainframe may seem a little sudden. From relative nothingness, this young jazz student now has a music video “Pump It On” on high rotation on Trace and other mainstream music media. She has however been pushing her hustle in Durban for a while now read more…


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Gimme Violence, Gimme Change

January 25th, 2012 by Max Barashenkov
Mahala > Culture, Reality

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The young man sits sipping coffee. He is good looking, talented and smokes too much. He has adopted the aesthetics of past social movements – he is part hippie, part French New Wave auteur – yet he’s failed to internalize the ideals that fueled those movements. read more…


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