Just when you figure you’re mildly au fait in these matters comes a book that blows you out the water in sweet one-liners and bucolic revelation. Sure, you’ve honoured the rituals, drank the umqombothi and daubed both the white limestone and the red ochre. So how could a fella who’s not even black, let alone …
While rubbing shoulders with the US business elite ahead of the 79th session of the UN General Debate in September, it was President Cyril Ramaphosa’s closed-door meeting with South Africa-born entrepreneur Elon Musk that set tongues wagging. The question on many people’s lips was whether Starlink, Musk’s satellite high-speed internet service might finally be coming …
Nearly two months since Floyd Shivambu’s departure from the Economic Freedom Fighters and the leader Julius Malema has duly taken stock of the ‘betrayal’ and composed himself. In place of the morose expression, a straight face. A tamping down of the broadsides at anyone else who might wish to follow Shivambu out the door. But …
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The cover of Noem My Skollie, a movie based on a book by John W. Fredericks. Image: Rotten Tomatoes.
While eParkeni figured this as just a8nother public holiday, pops up a woman, plump cheekbones, generally stunning and all beautifully kitted out in traditional Xhosa regalia. May we take a picture? Sure, as long as you include my friend. Suddenly, a story presents itself on this day when the traditional paraphernalia has been excavated from …
The kasi economy, nowadays a glib selling point in government dispatch, has been bleeping on eParkeni’s radar for a while. Two years in fact, when the octogenarian farmer Maeder Osler e-mailed a small-fry wannabe writer in the throes of a mild depression and too many bad habits to shake off. ‘If you still want to …
A week-long museum conference is hardly the sort of place a small-time writer with no skin in the game would consider a hangout – content as he tends to be in the quietude of his own thoughts rather than the orderly goings of more purposeful human beings. Phones going off, laptops clattering, registers passed around. …
Amid a clutter of pensioned battle tanks, the 88th installment of the SA Museums Association national conference convened at Bloemfontein’s Tempe Military Base timeously with the start of Heritage Month. This against the backdrop of notable headlines fitting neatly into the scheme: a four-year old child shatters a Bronze Age jar believed to be some …
Look, it’s not exactly French Riviera idyllic. Still no better setting could come close for the backdrop of a low-grade horror flick. Special effects or elaborate Hollywood-style peppering for who? Coming as it does with all the apparel that works: a shadow-draping koppie that leers over a sporadically-lit street. There’s a dilapidating church shrouded in …
If there’s one thing clear about the GNU conglomerate, it’s that although it has a smattering of serious people, the rest would be outstanding in a circus. Burnt-out Leninists and wannabe liberals share the floor with court jesters who will not pass up an opportunity to raise disruptive points of order for a cheap cackle. …
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