Thousands of police-issue guns – the made-in-South-Africa 9mm Z88 – have been sold to Cape Town gangs since the mid-2000s to early 2015. The flood of guns to gangs saw … Read More

Things can always get worse. It’s a frightening and comforting condition. Frightening because, well, worse. Comforting because if there is no bottom, then wherever we are now is better to … Read More

Four short reviews of dance works on the National Arts Festival Fringe: Buya: The word means “come back”. Return. It’s about grief, but with a celebratory feel. Khensani Mathebula’s choreography … Read More

Paying tribute to the life and work of the late South African author, activist, and poet Chris van Wyk is no simple task, but who better to embody his words, … Read More

“What did you dream?” Could there be a more powerful provocation to think of what we hoped for, for our future, for this time in our lives as South Africans? … Read More

The Neil Gonsalves Trio has turned out to be one of the unremarked, though more refined performances on the virtual Standard Bank Jazz Festival bill. There’s an air of high … Read More

The experience of transition is maddening. Each moment of lucidity becomes a high-high, an ‘I’ve got it feeling’ like no other. But every moment of confusion feels like a deep … Read More

Jazz composer and reedman Sisonke Xonti has found himself where, like every serious artist, he has nowhere to go but deep into the wilderness of his heart to discover his … Read More

‘There is a sound to a woman who has never been loved,’ a mother says of her daughter. In Ruth, a poetic piece of physical theatre, a surrogate mother refuses … Read More