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TZ Deluxe
January 13th, 2012
So here’s the Friday afternoon hook up! Tumi (from the Volume) and Zubz spent 3 days making this all original Kwaito tribute mixtape. And we got it for you to download for FREE! Mahala-style. Just click click and enjoy! Do it now, before the link expires.
Album Round-Up
January 13th, 2012
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…
Unprofessional Humans
January 13th, 2012 by Roger Young
On Dana, Suttle and Zille.
In the Wikipedia description of Woody Allen’s Zelig, the titular character, a human chameleon who seamlessly inserts himself into historical events, is described thus, “Zelig yearns for approval so strongly he physically changes to fit in with those around him.” Ladies and gentlemen, meet the professional mlungu, Devon Marshbank. read more…
Eat You Alive
January 13th, 2012Jozi Electro Pretty Boys, Double Adapter, introduce some visual weirdness with a George A. Romero-esque Zombie Apocalypse set to anarchic synth and hard beats. Disturbing but soothing. read more…
31 Million Reasons
January 12th, 2012 by Kavish Chetty
I don’t know precisely where the artistic impulse for endless local crime fiction emerged. It’s much easier to see its dark inspiration in the seething, throbbing streets of South Africa. This place is ostensibly, in the phrase of Mike Nicol, “killer country”. Full of chaos and questless violence, it’s the kind of place where a character of his can cough out (quilled in archetypal genre language: nasty, brutish, short) “You want to kill anybody, you take them to South Africa. Bam. Sounds like it’s part of the background noise.” read more…
Drug Mules
January 11th, 2012 by Brandon Edmonds
A Black Market Eucharist for the 21st Century
The population of Ecuador is Roman Catholic. As much as 95% in the CIA World Factbook. So it’s a safe bet that the 48-year old Ecuadorian man who was arrested at OR Tambo airport on Christmas day and who, according to News24, “during excretion (in custody) let off plastic containers that had liquid cocaine” was himself a believer. read more…
Love is What I Got
January 11th, 2012 by Daniel Neville, images by Laura McCullagh
The first rumours of a Sublime tribute gig rumbled almost 6 years ago, sometime while sipping on ice-cold beer on the sands of the now defunct Cool Runnings in Obs. This was when the now tsunami-like wave of indie bands that dominate the Cape Town stages were but recently fertilized fetuses. A time when bands like Hog Hoggidy Hog, 7th Son, LP Show, The Rudimentals and Half Price were counted amongst the bigger bands the local scene had to offer. read more…
It Could Be Worse
January 10th, 2012 by TO Molefe, illustration by Rico
Sitting at the counter inside the Vida looking out on the Street, I notice walking on the pavement a man – except he is not a man. He is far less. He is a bergie. Uncertain, he hesitates before (and this is me, assuming) hunger presses him forward.
He approaches a young man sitting at the tables outside. The young man has a perfectly coiffed quiff and is wearing round eyeglasses. Hand cupped under hand, the lesser man asks for the last of the young man’s breakfast wrap. read more…
