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- Miming normality in Grahamstown
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Amid the genteel theatre-goers and rowdy privileged schoolkids, there are dozens of poverty-stricken children in fixed poses, faces painted white.
- A meeting of great musical minds
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Monday night at the National Arts Festival in Grahamstown saw the uniting of Ronald Snijders and United States-born Salim Washington.
- An evocative recollection of childhood
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The play Hayani is an evocative recollection of childhood by actor and director John Kani's son, Atandwa, and Nat Ramabulana.
- The body breaks and the body calls out
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Many will remember this year's National Arts Festival as a body fest.
- Getting over the worst
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South Africans are no newcomers to trauma. Transition and progress aside, guilt, poverty, paranoia and anger have left us with a sense of dread.
- Expression through dance and words
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Dance is suggestive of physical energy, of a body in continuous and rhythmic movement. Poetry operates in much the same way.
- Rubber lumps of latitude
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During the National Arts Festival in Grahamstown every vertical plane in the town is plastered with posters advertising events.
- A life lost to prison
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A man shuffled up to me in the media room in Grahamstown on Thursday and abruptly asked who I was and which newspaper I wrote for.
- The triumph that is The Famished Road
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I recently reviewed Ben Okri's new work, Tales of Freedom, a collection of his short stories. I didn't like it much.
- Tragic take on the fall of Mbeki
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When I wrote Tsepo Wa Mamatu's profile for 300 Young South Africans I began by quoting the verse: “Poetry makes nothing happen".
