Ideally, any Westerner who has an interest in African culture and African beats should attend the African Footprint show. As this is not always possible, mainly for monetary reasons, a convenient alternative is now on the market. You can rent or buy the DVD featuring South Africa’s most famous cultural show. But firstly, what is [...]

Yesterday is the first isiZulu feature film, and the first South African film to receive an Oscar nomination. It was made with the support of the Nelson Mandela Foundation, M-Net and the National Film And Video Foundation.

Amandla: a revolution in four part harmony is a powerful and emotional documentary about the role music played in resisting and eventually overthrowing apartheid in South Africa.
“If you can’t beat these people physically with weapons, you can scare the shit out of them with songs” Hugh Masekela

The Color of Freedom is a historical, allegedly personal and autobiographical account of South African former prison officer James Gregory, which is based on his controversial book entitled Goodbye Bafana: My prisoner, my friend. The book is controversial because it has been denounced as false by both Mandela’s official biographer and Mandela himself who is supposed to have said “This man [James Gregory] has quite an imagination.” The movie, directed by Bille August, stars Joseph Fiennes as James Gregory, Dennis Haybert as Nelson Mandela and Diane Kruger as Gloria, Gregory’s wife. With such a promising team, you’d expect an amazing story and an inspirational movie. It isn’t.

Treated as an action movie and not put into context, “The Power of One” deserves your attention. It is inspiring, of good quality, with a cohesive storyline and, as mentioned earlier, it has a fabulous soundtrack. The first 45 minutes of the movie that introduces the audience to the much fantasized African wildlife is a delightful pleasure and spoil to the human eye.

Musa (Junior Singo) is a 10 year old boy whose family has been struck by the “mysterious plague”. He witnesses the death of both his parents and lives in a village where he is constantly being told that he is cursed. His grandmother is getting poorer and poorer by the day and despite having nothing [...]