Missive: A critter in Karoo quarantine
Here on the boer goat outpost, as fiesty matriarchs jostle on hindies for tasty lucerne tips at the top of the bale, I listen to the rasping, drunken rantings of … Read More
Author: Mike Loewe
New National Arts Festival CEO has a few bolts to tighten
Monica Newton, the brand new National Arts Festival CEO, says the decline of fringe audiences and the water crisis in Makhanda are the two big problems facing the 46th rendition … Read More
Bitchin’ in the Kitchen: The Ovulation Awards
One liners and comments Moonless: 99 red balloons meaninglessly invade the set. Shoot them down! The Gospel According to Jan Coetzee: Matthew, Mark, Luke and Jan: Afrikaner wannabe Prophet, betrayed … Read More
Black Light: The underground is happening
The room is pumping. Strobes, smoke, the tang of spray painters, chest-bursting 80s electro-pop synth and base, and there above the DJ table are two artists posturing in glitter in … Read More
The Mother of All Eating: Food of the revolutionary gods
Why do we still struggle to understand civil war in South Africa? How do we fail to link these donga-riddled roads of Makhanda with inequality, townships and extreme wealth, to … Read More