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  • EarVasion – TLALE MAKHENE: Swazigold

    Swazigold, reflected in title track A Song For Khethiwe, sees Makhene extending the vision we witnessed in The Ascension Of The Enlightened. It is a challenging experience to those with specific musical expectations. But what is remarkable about this it is the space that each musician receives in the invitation that Makhene has extended to…

  • Gestures

    The UNISA 4th year Exhibition presents a bag of thought provoking ideas about what challenges the South African society is struggling with. Thematically speaking it is a journey from the self to the populace. Of course since the works are heavy in conceptual content and considerable in scale they may not make it into the…

  • The Symphony of Line and Colour

    I believe Khoza’s Temporary feelings has revealed an artist of an interesting vision and that only the freedom he possess at the moment wherein he is not signed to any commercial gallery will continue to encourage him to push the frontiers of his forte undeterred. The grip of the commercialization of his enterprise may limit…

  • INTRAPARADOX: Interview with Nelmarie Du Preez

    Nelmarie du Preez won SASOL New Signatures Art Competition 2015 with the video installation To Shout. On 26 September 2016 I had the privilege of talking to her about her new work that was featured in her solo exhibition accompanying this year’s edition of the art competition. Our interview centered on the human-machine interrogation that…

  • Diary log 5 November

    The first draft of Intraparadox: Interview with Nelmarie du Preez which I conducted on 26 September 2016 is complete. It has been long overdue but I have completed it finally ! Over the next couple of weeks I will be readying it for blogging. It has been a difficult period writerly to emerge from the…

  • The Wake

    I swung flung the doors of my front door open for you Invited you through the corridors of my most precious memories Led you to swirl on my glaringly white linen and wove stories for you Forged through my powers of imagination with a dash of realism But yet when fortune favored you in turn…

  • The Writerly Bug Juice: An Eulogy for Bok

    The power of memory is able to jolt scenes into stark relief without their sources except the impressions left behind by byways that lead us there time and time again for a lifetime.

  • The Birth of ShowMax Deluxe

    I don’t think anyone can say with confidence that they have seen this coming. Perhaps it was there at the back of our collective minds; I am talking to those of us who care about television. That there is no way, mhum let me correct my self here before I err – that there was…