Arts & Books

South Africa's 2010 World Cup 'feel good' factor is addictive. At taxi ranks, street bazaars and tea-rooms, South African citizens everywhere are filled with elation - and pride.

Wole Soyinka’s ‘attack’ on the BBC in response to the portrayal of Lagos in the three-part television documentary Welcome to Lagos has been widely reported.

I’d like to draw your attention as a white leftist man to an article about ‘Austria deports African gay footballer’ on LGBT Asylum News, London.

June 2010 – the year we witness the glorious bursting forth from the chrysalis of the ‘democratic state’ the ravenous beast of the security-centric state.

Kopano Matlwa’s second novel is about an uneasy reunion between two old flames, the black, successful principal of Sekolo sa Ditlhora (School of Excellence), Mohumagadi, and the white William ‘Bill’ Thomas, now a priest who has fallen on hard times.