Join Bands, Not Gangs offers music lessons to vulnerable teens in dangerous Western Cape neighbourhoods, encouraging those at risk to choose an instrument rather than a gun,
For most people around the world, the music industry represents glamour, fame, riches and influence. On the inside though it is famously opaque, litigious and corrupt. If South ... Read more »
After weeks of gruelling competition and over 12 million votes cast, Berenike 'Berry' Trytsman has been crowned the winner of Idols SA Read more »
The government has withdrawn its support for the Miss South Africa pageant after it was unable to convince organisers to pull out of the Miss Universe pageant which will be held in ... Read more »
South African playwright and novelist Damon Galgut has won the prestigious Booker Prize for fiction for his novel The Promise. This was the third time Galgut ... Read more »
Rwandan dissidents have died under mysterious circumstances inside and outside the country with alarming frequency in recent years. On September 14, Revocat Karemangingo, Read more »
Slee Mbhele volunteers as a firefighter in South Africa because the racial and economic divides that segregate the country seem to dissolve when confronting a blaze. Mbele is a ... Read more »
Now in its 23rd year, JOMBA! a contemporary dance festival is going digital for the second year, with a feast of dance films, performances, seminars, and exhibitions under the ... Read more »
The killing of Dulcie September has remained shrouded in secrecy for decades, and though a new documentary about it does not reveal her killers, it might help piece together the ... Read more »
Renowned Nigerian author and feminist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie delivered this year's second vice-chancellor's open lecture at the University of Cape Town (UCT) amid a wave of ... Read more »
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