Cape Town City Ballet’s double bill ‘a perfect end to the season’ and the summer
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What if … imagining, creating, showcasing different outcomes
A carefully curated, free-to-the-public festival that includes installations, sculptures, digital artworks, pop-up exhibitions, performances and street art tours all over the Mother City
A leg up for the wealthy; a boot on the neck for the poor
Business as usual in Budget 2023: billions for Eskom, thousands for taxpayers and businesses, R350 for the poorest of the poor
The dreamiest of midsummer nights
An exceptional Midsummer Night’s Dream provides a night of blessings, magic, mirth and laughter under the stars
From city to kasi, bringing art home
Exhibition in Langa will hopefully narrow the gap between African art and the spaces and contexts that inspire it.
Hamlet: The prince, the people and the puppets
A contemporary Hamlet, brought to life by larger-than-life puppets
How the global south uses non-alignment to avoid great power rivalries
Africa especially, the world’s most insecure continent (host to 84% of UN peacekeepers), cannot afford to simply be pulled into the orbit of one or other of the superpowers of the day
Aah South Africa … from Kalahari blues to Handspringery
Here is something I found from 2013 … David Kramer’s Kalahari Karoo Blues reminded us why we “couldn’t possibly live anywhere else but in this land of unexpected genius and overflowing sincerity”.
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Magic in the moonlight at Maynardville
Cape Town City Ballet’s double bill ‘a perfect end to the season’ and the summer
What if … imagining, creating, showcasing different outcomes
A carefully curated, free-to-the-public festival that includes installations, sculptures, digital artworks, pop-up exhibitions, performances and street art tours all over the Mother City
A leg up for the wealthy; a boot on the neck for the poor
Business as usual in Budget 2023: billions for Eskom, thousands for taxpayers and businesses, R350 for the poorest of the poor
The dreamiest of midsummer nights
An exceptional Midsummer Night’s Dream provides a night of blessings, magic, mirth and laughter under the stars
From city to kasi, bringing art home
Exhibition in Langa will hopefully narrow the gap between African art and the spaces and contexts that inspire it.
Hamlet: The prince, the people and the puppets
A contemporary Hamlet, brought to life by larger-than-life puppets
How the global south uses non-alignment to avoid great power rivalries
Africa especially, the world’s most insecure continent (host to 84% of UN peacekeepers), cannot afford to simply be pulled into the orbit of one or other of the superpowers of the day
Aah South Africa … from Kalahari blues to Handspringery
Here is something I found from 2013 … David Kramer’s Kalahari Karoo Blues reminded us why we “couldn’t possibly live anywhere else but in this land of unexpected genius and overflowing sincerity”.
Mzansi, 10 tenors and the language of the soul
This is non-verbal communication of sounds and a deep rhythm that vibrates between us and fills us with hope and connection
All bets on as Sting takes us back to casino that promised to be a foodie mecca
Remembering the pleasure and the promise of an incredible feast at Time Square, and wondering what we will find there 5 years later
The theft of art, the murder of knowledge
Art cannot be separated from history, knowledge, culture, development. The return of artworks plundered in colonial times entirely on the plunderers terms misses the point
Banksy in Ukraine
Works by the graffiti artist on shattered buildings in Ukraine underline how art in warzones can serve as a symbol of of expression, solidarity and even of resistance
It all began with a click: How language evolved in Africa
The click sound, integral to the beautiful Xhosa language, is the basis of all human language. It is a tragedy that most of us can’t even say the word Xhosa properly
Putting tech at the heart of fintech
10X Investments has upped the ante in the fintech world by bringing in some serious tech firepower
Why we are all so utterly exhausted
As we career towards the end of a shitshow of a year, take a moment pause, breathe and reflect (and remember that everyone, including you, could do with some TLC)
William the Conqueror
It is hard to find the words to describe this extraordinary show by our very own King Kentridge
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How the global south uses non-alignment to avoid great power rivalries
Africa especially, the world’s most insecure continent (host to 84% of UN peacekeepers), cannot afford to simply be pulled into the orbit of one or other of the superpowers of the day
The theft of art, the murder of knowledge
Art cannot be separated from history, knowledge, culture, development. The return of artworks plundered in colonial times entirely on the plunderers terms misses the point
Why we are all so utterly exhausted
As we career towards the end of a shitshow of a year, take a moment pause, breathe and reflect (and remember that everyone, including you, could do with some TLC)
Food & Drink
All bets on as Sting takes us back to casino that promised to be a foodie mecca
Remembering the pleasure and the promise of an incredible feast at Time Square, and wondering what we will find there 5 years later
Imagining, like fermenting
We expect Sepial to work magic with food and people at her new venture, The Fermentary, at Makers Landing
Feast on local flavours and support our future foodies
Savouring local flavours and supporting local foodies of the future at a different kind of food market
Perfection at a wine bar called Publik
An unpretentious hole-in-the-wall wine bar in Cape Town selling wine by the glass at fair prices? I kid you not
Health
The battle of the plagues
Still, the Global Fund says, ‘the pandemic presents us with a chance to build a better, more equitable and healthier world’
Interactive map gives snapshot of vaccination rollout in Africa
Amazing map provides an easy reference of where Africa is at re Covid-19 jabs (and might just introduce many to countries they had not heard of before)
U=U brings an Aids-free world into sight
Overwhelming evidence is causing a cultural shift in HIV prevention
Learning to live with the plague
As it becomes accepted that herd immunity is not going to happen, at least not in our lifetimes, the focus turns to learning to live with Covid-19
Call Off The Search
A survivor’s guide to train travel in SA
A 10-point guide to resisting the South African railway service’s best efforts to ruin what should be one of the most beautiful train journeys in the world.
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