
Review: Dream of a lifetime: Crossing Antarctica by Mike Horn
2020-04-22"The pages fly by. The journey over the ice is as ferocious as the pace its reading makes."

Review: The enforcers – Inside Cape Town’s deadly nightclub battles by Caryn Dolley
2020-04-06"There is an art in finding and lifting the real story from the day-to-day facts. Dolley may not quite be there yet, but she's certainly on her way."

Reader impression: Talking to strangers by Malcolm Gladwell
2020-02-18"These are the stories of real people. They’re the stories that we enjoy most, and are, from their reading, those that Gladwell relishes compassionately too."

Film review: A million little pieces
2020-02-04"A million little pieces is an engaging film that will transport you from your comfortable theatre seat, providing some limited insight into difficult lives that people endure."

Review: Bitter pill by Peter Church
2020-01-31"Bitter pill is a book built for speed. The chapters are short and the events fast paced."

Richard O’Brien’s Rocky Horror Show Rock ’n Roll Musical
2019-12-13"Clearly, the full house to which the Rocky Horror Show opened on the main stage at the Artscape in Cape Town for its latest run, shows that time has not dimmed this star."

Review: Death, detention and disappearance by David Smuts
2019-11-28"Death, detention and disappearance makes an invaluable contribution to our perspective, both historical and on abusive power everywhere."

Reader impression: Tobacco wars by Johann van Loggerenberg
2019-11-06"Overall, the book sheds light on the darker workings of a massive industry. But it also provides much-needed insight into SARS and the world of tax collection."

Endgame at the Baxter: theatre review
2018-08-20"Together, this latest crew whips up Beckett’s tale anew and makes an important and essential contribution to discourse ironically under threat of being drowned out itself."

Burgeoning Estonian festival seeks more African film
2018-01-30"'The selections from Africa up to now have mostly come from recommendations from friends,' says event founder and director Tiina Lokk-Tramberg. 'It is one of the areas where I would really like to get more submissions.'"

Under Nelson Mandela Boulevard by Sean Christie: a book review
2017-11-29"Christie skilfully weaves historical and social context into the retelling of day-to-day events, from his early encounters with the Beachboys through to his introduction to the slums of Dar es Salaam."

Marat/Sade, a theatre review
2017-03-08"One is intensely aware of one’s own imperfect complicity, and constantly reminded of it jarringly as the occasional performer tears through that imaginary wall at the edge of the stage, and bounds – wild-eyed and tongue flailing – over the aisles."

Waar is ons manlike amateurbakkers?
2016-04-26Op kykNET se Koekedoor-logo pryk daar 'n haan. Clifford Roberts het opgemerk dis die enigste een: daar is hierdie seisoen net een manlike bakker tussen die henne. Clifford het agter die skerms gaan skrop.

New era for Vergenoegd unveiled
2016-02-12"The team has launched some new initiatives on the farm to complement the famed 'duck parade' – a morning and afternoon display of hundreds of Indian Runner ducks."