asleep awake asleep: Stories on the threshold of consciousness
The first story starts with: ‘The dolphins left a chocolate in the fridge.’ Which is a near-perfect setup for the 39 stories contained in Jo-Ann Bekker’s asleep awake asleep. The … Read More
Res4Res: Arts against the machine
The increasing corporatisation of universities in which the focus is on the financial bottom line, rather than the less tangible but more rewarding project of developing and refining critical thinking, … Read More
The Nix: Prescient of Portland
What’s going on in Portland USA today, and elsewhere in the ‘States – the teargas, pepper spray, rubber bullets shot at protesters by armed men in riot gear – is … Read More
Madness: Society’s unacknowledged undercurrent
While waiting for my car’s tyres to be changed and wheels balanced in Maitland recently, I was approached politely by a young man who wanted to ask something of me. … Read More
Seen Pha Kwa J.B!: Chapter and verse
J.Bobs sticks his hand in and pulls the whole thing inside out. ‘I’m sublime on them limits, on them limits I’m sublime’. Or something like that. ‘Can’t you sing along … Read More
Poems in Times of Distress: Eastern Cape township blues
By Lindani Donyeli It was while a schoolboy in KwaNobuhle on the edge of Uitenhage that Ayanda Billie discovered writing as a means to express himself, and has recorded the … Read More
Once Upon a Circus: It’s a kind of magic
Laura du Toit Once Upon A Circus begins as all fairy tales do; once upon a time, a young man named Trompie snuck into the Zip Zap tent. We are … Read More
vNAF: No kitch’n to bitch in, Zoom-Zoom
Who even remembers Netflix, Showmax, Apple TV? Whatever. Geezuz! What a ride. And we don’t even have to drive home. Normally we’d be hitting the highways back to our cities … Read More
Vintage Mazwai Magic
Few singer songwriters can claim the space that Thandiswa Mazwai commands in our national consciousness. She is a keeper of a sacred flame whose fires connect her to both the … Read More