Nakhane Toure’s Another Country
Nakhane Toure, who won the Best Alternative South African Music Award for his debut album, Brave Confusion, starts his 2015 gigging in Johannesburg by sharing a stage with Eastern Cape homeboy Bongeziwe Mabandla tonight. The Con’s Niren Tolsi asked him a few questions in anticipation: The Con (TC): What have you been doing […]
Beauty in a Time of Conflict
This series of articles on Marlon Brando has been some of the easiest writing I’ve ever done. The words have just tumbled out. But this third instalment was a difficult piece to write. Finding the energy and inspiration to write amid the horror unfolding in Gaza has not been easy. Writing about an actor […]
Platinum Strike: Who Oppresses Whom?
“Some say they are fighting for economic freedom – who is oppressing them economically? Who do they want economic freedom from?” South African President Jacob Zuma uttered these words in October last year. He was addressing a crowd of 500 people at the Mdantsane’s Nonzwakazi Primary School in the Eastern Cape. Naturally, his disingenuous diss was […]