Jun 29, 2023 | ARTiculate
The South African online gambling regulation is undergoing changes as we speak. The so-called ”Remote Gambling Bill” initiated by the Democratic Alliance aims to end the blanket ban on online casinos, bringing this segment of the market out of the grey zone and...
May 20, 2023 | ARTiculate
By BRUCE DENNILL The second day of a festival is quite different to the first. The novelty of being in a new place is diminished and there may be a dip in energy if you committed to the after-hours offerings of wherever you’re staying – eating out;...
May 19, 2023 | ARTiculate
By BRUCE DENNILL As with so most enterprises, the Franschhoek Literary Festival – and every other cultural event in the calendar – was forced to endure a fallow period during the Covid pandemic. Happily, though, despite the enthusiastic naysaying of...
Feb 28, 2023 | ARTiculate
By BRUCE DENNILL There’s a man playing a singing bowl and warbling along to the soothing sound it makes outside the bank of elevators that service Rosebank’s The Zone centre. He’s good. He has a couple of albums displayed for sale on the floor next to his...
Sep 14, 2022 | ARTiculate
By HUGH MELAMDOWITZ Hugh Melamdowitz is a Partner at Spoor & Fisher South Africa “There are no virgin births in music. Music comes out of other music,” says Sandy Wilbur, forensic musicologist (cited in Rolling Stone, 2020) – referring to the finite...
Apr 11, 2022 | ARTiculate
[vc_row][vc_column width=”3/4″][vc_column_text] The most recent statement from the Theatre And Dance Alliance: If you are not with us, Minister Mthethwa, you are against us It is with a renewed sense of shock and dismay that the Theatre and Dance...
