BY MISHQA ROSSIER
I want to be an indie rockstar. Well at least date one. The endless ooze of coolness, snug fit jeans and bed-head hair along with that British accent is the culmination of most girls’ dreams and bedroom walls (do kids even do posters these days?). The lure of fame and the usual sex, [...]
I want to be an indie rockstar
Mzansi madness: the world embraces South Africa
As one of the many, many South Africans abroad, it has been painful to be absent from the country during the FIFA World Cup 2010. Thanks be to satellite television then, and to the soccer-mad spirit in both Canada and Cuba (neither of which are competing).
Imagine, if you can, how surreal it is (after living [...]
The moment never lasts: a poem
BY ANDREA JOSEPH
The moment never lasts.
Sometimes
For a moment
She feels alone
-the good kind-
For a moment she can be.
Just sit. Smile. Sigh.
For a moment she is relieved
But the thoughts always rush into it
Tearing through the peace
Wishing she trusted them from the start
Dreaming that her dancing days [...]
Fashion’s football fever
The world’s greatest sporting event has just become uber stylish. The 2010 Fifa World Cup has had some fashion injected into the tournament with the official travel case of the trophy being designed by Louis Vuitton. The custom-made case was unveiled by Louise Vuitton and supermodel Naomi Campbell earlier this [...]
Education’s financial black hole
BY AKANYANG MEREMENTSI
Professor Jonathan Jansen, Rector of the University of Free State, wrote a brilliant article in the Times newspaper yesterday in which he advised the Grade 10 “students to be sent to university before they finish high school”. And just who will pay?
This is one of the noble ideas thought by [...]
