Opinion: The Future Of Festivals, Or Sensible Is Sexy

Opinion: The Future Of Festivals, Or Sensible Is Sexy

[vc_row][vc_column width=”3/4″][vc_column_text] By BRUCE DENNILL   Parklife / Marks Park, Johannesburg   “You know what I really like about this festival? You can go home after the set. Have some real comfort. No trying to find your tent in the...
Essay: Writing It Out, Or After The Alcohol

Essay: Writing It Out, Or After The Alcohol

[vc_row][vc_column width=”3/4″][vc_column_text] By DEAN LILLEYMAN   It’s gone midnight. I’m sat at a table. I have a blanket draped over my head and the laptop I am typing on. I am shivering as I type. Under the blanket it is too warm, but the sweat...
Book Review: The President’s Keepers by Jacques Pauw

Book Review: The President’s Keepers by Jacques Pauw

By ROB HOFMEYR   The President’s Keepers by Jacques Pauw (Tafelberg)   When Jacob Zuma was elevated to president-in-waiting, a columnist consoled readers by opining that Zuma’s “minders” would keep him under control. What we have instead is a president who...
Books: Extract – The Last Horseman by David Gilman

Books: Extract – The Last Horseman by David Gilman

CHAPTER ONE   It was a foul night to hang a man. The rain swept across the Irish Sea, throwing itself against the grey stone walls of Dublin’s Mountjoy Prison. Behind its unyielding façade two prison guards stood outside the condemned man’s cell. The number was...