Debut Nam rock concert a hit

Last weekend saw the crowds descending on the Wanderers Sports Ground in Windhoek, Namibia, for the first ever Loaded Music Productions rock spectacular, that saw a combination of three local bands take the stage alongside two South African headliners. Young-guns Multisonus had a great following on hand and didn’t disappoint with their heaving mixture of nu-wave metal and hip-hop, to kick the concert into gear. ...Read on

Botswana beauty is new Face of Africa

Striking Motswana beauty, the elegant 1.75 metre tall, Kaone Kario, on Sunday night walked away with Africa’s most prestigious modelling title — the M-NET Nokia Face of Africa crown. Facing a strong field of 9 other contestants from across the continent, Kaone could not have asked for any better 19th birthday present as the lucrative prize which will undoubtedly catapult her to the highest modelling level in the universe. Kaone, who turned 19 on Sunday, hails from Maun in Botswana, a place she describes quite simply as, “it’s beautiful, it’s home.” ...Read on

Benhura works turned into a book

A diary is normally a record of a person’s private life — an account of inner feelings at a given point in time, love, pain, passion, jealousy and hate, read only by the entrant in the diary. Entries in a diary are cryptic — Tuesday 12. 30 am ‘A’ Wednesday 8.30 pm ‘K’, a diary is a marker for clandestine meetings, rendezvous with lovers, trysts, meetings on a bridge at midnight, in a deserted church yard at dawn. So a diary allows a person to live a life of cloaks and darkness, and steath by night. But words of love can also pour from a diary — a young girl’s pages devoted to simply a glimpse of the beloved, the curl of his hair at the nape of his neck, the wrinkle of his nose as he smells a sweet flower, the pace of his gait as he walks through the woods, the crease in his trousers as he bends on his knee as he asks for the writer’s hand in marriage. ...Read on

Zim art gives glimpse of what Africa offers

Do you wonder if art ‘is for you’ ? Or do you wish that you could give something positive from your heart to Zimbabwe? Or are you a connoisseur and collector of very fine art ? Then go and visit the touring exhibition of sculpture from Zimbabwe, which has had less publicity and visits — unsurprisingly — in Wimbledon Fortnight, when it was at Canizzaro Park in Wimbledon; but which is subsequently on a tour of Hampton Court Palace Flower Show, Ingatestone Hall, and Loseley Park, this summer. ...Read on

Only a matter of friendship

Have you heard the song that has hit town lately? It's about two of my neighbours, or rather, two of my neighbouring families. You see, they are on the best of terms. Two friendly couples living happily side by side. Mr. Makosa is friendly with Mr. Saimba and Mrs. Saimba is friendly with Mrs. Makosa and there is a general air of warmth all around. If any of the woman is late home for any reason, she can generally rely on the other to look after her children and the men, in the age old manner of their sex, often go off boozing together and then stagger home in a state of drunken bonhomie. ...Read on