A South African Arts & Culture Magazine
A Celebration of the Wit & Wisdom of Sholem Aleichem in Word and Song starring Shane Baker Special Guest Artist from New York and Caely-Jo Levy with the Yid Dish Players JOHANNESBURG Theatre on the Square 4 September 2016 The…
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Recently while listening to a radio program, one of the speakers referred to the spelling of the English language as weird! The statement was understood to mean: peculiar or odd or maybe even unconventional. Some thought had to be given…
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Centuries ago, from the 15th century onwards, political and economic ambition caused navigators to sail further and further from the home ports of Europe. The result of new discoveries allowed these other countries access to people with diverse backgrounds and varied cultures. One…
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CAPRIVI, or the Caprivi Strip as it has also been called, was named after the German Chancellor (1890-1894) Leo von Caprivi . Consult an atlas and it will be seen to be a narrow strip of land that lies in…
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ADAM SMALL, well known poet and author, wrote mainly in Afrikaans. Born 21.12.1936 Wellington, Western Cape died Cape Town 25 June 2016 Adam Small, academic, writer poet, activist was, in 2009, awarded a South African Academy of Arts & Sciences…
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MARINE ANCHORAGE The town and the South African Naval Dockyard that share the name of Simon’s Town have an administrative record going back to the late seventeenth century until the middle of the eighteenth century, when it was finally decided…
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As we celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Women’s March on Pretoria in partnership with the 10th Artscape Woman’s Humanity and Arts Festival (AWHAF) from 4 to 9 August, Woman Zone is celebrating women in literature with a STORY CAFE…
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In recognition of World Lion Day on August 10, let’s re-visit the life of a lion many people never hear about. He was Honorary Operator in the South African Special Forces decades ago, a lion born in captivity at a…
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The South African anti-apartheid activist and political icon, Denis Goldberg, will relate his life’s story in a new musical work by South African composer Matthijs van Dijk at the 2016 Stellenbosch International Chamber Music Festival (SICMF). The SICMF, which runs…
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This has not only been a South African female problem but a world wide one. In South Africa in 1923 a law was passed that allowed women to practice law. BERTHA SOLOMON became one of the first of such women….
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