Articles in the Main features Category
For 17-year-old Abigail Muller, signing a contract with a British recording company still feels unreal. Read more in the March/April issue of DEKAT.
Most people have heard of Swartland Boudienste’s carpentry and wood products. But few are aware that this is the third generation building this “kingdom”. Gerard Scholtz visited Oom Jurgens Hanekom to talk about the family …
Regardt van den Bergh’s latest movie, Klein Karoo, and the script he is writing, Uitvlucht, are both about reaching out to the children in rural communities, on the screen and in real life. Read more …
What would drive these two troubadours to introspective scrutiny – fatherhood or simply the doubts and opportunities that come with age? What role does their conservative Christian childhood play? One is a child of Africa, …
The voice of the farmer and of permanent farm employees has largely been missing in the wage strikes and associated violence these past few months. What we have heard is hate-speech against farmers, broadcast by …
The main difference between what happened in Sharpeville 53 years ago and what happened in Marikana last year, is that we knew what happened at the latter, mainly because today digital media penetrates almost every …
Diane Victor, one of South Africa’s most important contemporary artists, is the festival artist at the Absa KKNK in Oudtshoorn this year. Her work features in several international collections, including the Museum of Modern Art …
