News
 | Looking for the best view in Cape Town? Try Look Out Hill in Khayelitsha02/05/2013 - 14:35 At 9am sharp, a minibus pulls up in front of my house with my guide, Greda, and driver, JJ, leaving Cape Town via the N2 in the direction of Khayelitsha. It’s Friday and the streets are full of people talking, eating and laughing. Our tour starts at Look Out Hill, the tallest sand dune that gives a panoramic view of Khayelitsha. Our local guide, Mteto, welcomes us with a warm smile and a hug. As I stand on the platform built around the dune, I can make out Gordon’s Bay, where I once lived for a year, Strand, Somerset-West, Mitchell’s Plain, the Cape Flats and Table Mountain in the distance. From this viewpoint the affluent suburbs seem ... Read more |
021 Magazine | Autumn Edition 2013
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Art
LOCAL MOVIES THIS SEASON19/04/2013 - 00:00 Writer and director Darrell Roodt’s Little One (26 April) deals with the tragic story of a six-year-old girl (Vuyelwa Msimang) who was left for dead in a field near a township in Johannesburg and rescued by a middle-aged woman (Lindiwe Ndlovu), who takes her home where she looks after her as her own flesh and blood. The action comedy Blitz Patrollie (10 May) was written by Kagiso Lediga, with Joey Rasdien and David Kau as police officers stationed in a little-known depot in the belly of the Johannesburg CBD, until they stumble upon what is believed to be South Africa’s biggest drug haul in recent history. In Spud: The Madness Continues (21 June) Spud Milton (Troye Sivan) is aided by his English teacher “the Guv” (played again by the legendary John Cleese), to take up the figh... Read more |
Design
 | Eco fashion05/03/2013 - 20:03 Nature rubs shoulders with the city in Karolina Olowsdotter’s fashion label. A Swedish fashion designer living in Cape Town, Karolina describes her label – Olowsdotter – as an eco-industrial look. This merging and clashing of contradictory elements expresses the duality felt by the 21st-century free-spirited nature lover who longs to feel the grass under her feet yet demands high-speed internet access 24/7. Ecological principles affect every step of Karolina’s design process. Supporting and affiliating with other local industries is a primary concern. She buys local fabrics, mostly organic, and uses only natural fibres, which s... Read more |
City Life
| Looking for the best view in Cape Town? Try Look Out Hill in Khayelitsha02/05/2013 - 14:35 At 9am sharp, a minibus pulls up in front of my house with my guide, Greda, and driver, JJ, leaving Cape Town via the N2 in the direction of Khayelitsha. It’s Friday and the streets are full of people talking, eating and laughing. Our tour starts at Look Out Hill, the tallest sand dune that gives a panoramic view of Khayelitsha. Our local guide, Mteto, welcomes us with a warm smile and a hug. As I stand on the platform built around the dune, I can make out Gordon’s Bay, where I once lived for a year, Strand, Somerset-West, Mitchell’s Plai... Read more |
Music
 | Best music albums – My pick of the season05/03/2013 - 20:09 Tailor – Dark Horse Dark Horse is what happens when you pair a strong singer with powerful melodies. The Pretoria-born singer-songwriter has been performing since the age of 12 and started the band Mel-funktion at age 15. She was then Melanie Le Roux. In 2007 Melanie moved to Cape Town and became Tailor. Dark Horse is her debut album. It’s astounding to hear that half the songs for this album were written in a day. Tailor, who currently has one of the most powerful voices in South Africa, really shows off her range of vocals, going from ... Read more |
Nature
 | CITY SAFARI: HIPPOS AND PELICANS IN RONDEVLEI04/03/2013 - 07:37 Want to get away from it all? Dawn Kennedy discovers tranquillity – and Africa’s most dangerous animal – right in the middle of the city. Whoever penned the famous phrase about the journey being more important than the destination had clearly never tried to cross Prince George Drive during rush hour to reach Rondevlei Nature Reserve. Hands sweating, gripping the steering wheel tightly, I beep with fury, cursing the rush hour, the apex of our cultural madness. Battling through traffic, I fix my aim on Imvubu Island. Nothing signal... Read more |
Theatre
 | UNEXPECTED MAN @ ALEXANDER BAR & INTIMATE THEATRE IN MAY29/04/2013 - 09:30 The Unexpected Man is Tony award winning playwright Reza's exploration of the inner world of two travellers sharing a train compartment. Performed by Shaun Acker and Zanne Solomon under Brink Scholtz's subtle direction, the play is surprising gem as the audience yearn with the characters for a catharsis of connection. The Unexpected Man will be running first at the Intimate Theatre 7th - 12th and then returning to Alexander Upstairs from the 15th to the 25th of May.... Read more |
Portrait
 | INTERVIEW ROGER SMITH - Cape Town Confidential14/04/2013 - 18:47 Dawn Kennedy interviews author Roger Smith, who has shaken up crime writing with his visceral portrayals of Cape Town’s brutal underbelly. You grew up in Johannesburg but set your stories in Cape Town. Why? Well, Dust Devils is set mainly in KwaZulu-Natal, with a bit of Jo’burg and Cape Town, but, yes, Mixed Blood, Wake Up Dead, Capture and my latest, Sacrifices, are set in Cape Town, which is South Africa’s most schizophrenic city and remains fascinating to me. In the late ’90s (like a lot of Jo’burgers) I moved down to C... Read more |
