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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Minister of Tourism Patricia de Lille with Colesberg’s tourism entrepreneur Mbulelo Kafi. Image: Mbulelo Kafi.
Floyd Shivambu paying tribute to Johannesburg Region’s Deputy Secretary and Councilor Moshe Mphahlele. Image: Floyd Shivambu Facebook page.
An acquaintance of mine often recounts, rather wretchedly, an offending utterance he was once slapped with when he’d mentioned to somebody that he’s from Colesberg. ‘Ah,’ his listener had shrugged, ‘you mean that place with a Shell?’ Eina! So much for ‘picteresque,’ ‘historic,’ ‘home to the magic mountain,’ ‘the busiest town over holiday season’ and …
Foreign nationals would’ve breathed a sigh of relief that the vigilante-like group Operation Dudula’s political hopes sank like lead towards the 2024 general election. But thanks to Patriotic Alliance leader, Gayton McKenzie, such relief has been shortlived. Kept out of the home affairs ministry where he’d hoped to drive his ‘#Abahambe’ rallying cry home, as …
