Actress Vanessa Cooke was one of the Market Theatre’s original founders. In 1989, she became director of The Laboratory. Both a school and a workshop, this structure is dependent on…
The Market Theatre opened in June 1976. But if the date is historic, it is for quite a different reason. The 16 June was marked that year by the bloody…
What is the state of dance in South Africa ? There are no structured organisations in any field. It’s not a priority for the government. Back in the days of the…
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34-year-old Zola Maseko was born and grew up in exile. He studied in Swaziland, in Tanzania, and at the National Film and Television School in Beaconsfield, Great Britain. He was…
Before leaving Los Angeles to return to South Africa, Mickey Dube hoped to make films. Feature films. A few months before returning to Johannesburg, he presented Imbazo (The Axe) at…
Four years after Fools, a film by Ramadan Suleiman based on a novel by Njabulo Ndebele, a new South African feature film, Hijack Stories directed by Oliver Schmitz (a White…
Alf Kumalo, South Africa’s veteran press photographer, still has an office at The Star newspaper in Johannesburg, even though he does not work there anymore. That is where he is…
A priori, David Goldblatt and Andrew Tshabangu could not be further apart. David Goldblatt, a seventy-year-old white South African, started photography in 1948; the year apartheid was introduced. Andrew Tshabangu,…
Things began to fall into place for this 40-year-old, mixed-race Cape Town pianist when he came to Johannesburg in 1987. Before that, he used to play hit-songs in hotels along…
Forty-two-year-old Zim Ngqawana studied jazz at the University of Natal before going to the United States to train with the likes of Max Roach and Wynton Marsalis. On his return…
At the time of his tragic death last February, the young jazz pianist Moses Molelekwa was putting the finishing touches to an album recorded with one of the top kwaito…
At 51 years old, Mandla Langa is now one of the ruling elite. He was formerly the ANC head of culture in London during his period of exile (1976 …
Njabulo Ndebele was the first black writer to pleed for « the rediscovery of the ordinary » (title of a critical essay published in 1991). The 53-year-old rector and vice-chancellor of the…
Zakes Mda returned from exile in America in 1995. He has since given up teaching African literature to write novels. His latest novel, The Heart of Redness, is due to…
Ja, the Cape Flats. They are like a complicated underground sewage system. Everyone I know there would like to live somewhere else but they pretend they are having the time…
« Nelson Mandela’s autobiography is South Africa’s biggest bestseller in recent years [This] provides some clues about the state of South African publishing, » wrote literary critic Shaun de Waal in…
The first two publications in this series of monographs on South Africa’s contemporary artists suggest that the series will become a highly appreciable tool for professionals, and a rich introduction…
« How can those pathetic liberals say that apartheid will still be around in thirty to forty years? Don’t realise that that shows just how little they are willing to do,…
Although he is only 29 years old, Stephen Hobbs already has a full career behind him. From 1994 to 2000, he was Manager of the Rembrandt van Rijn Gallery, situated…
