‘YOU DON’T GET PAID FOR SOCCER IN SOUTH AFRICA’
Playing football at the highest level in South Africa requires as much patience as it does passion, according to members of the country’s national women’s squad. The Chronic meets four players who have displayed healthy doses of both for the opportunity to don national colours and run the pitch for Banyana Banyana. JERMAINE SEOPOSENWE – […]
Liner Notes
As listening trends move rapidly to the online interface, the knowing of music through the writing that accompanied ‘the album’ is, like the oral traditions that went before, a dying art. Ben Verghese recalls the poetry and consciousness that enlivened the musical arrangements of some the world’s greatest players Side A Liner notes, sleeve notes, […]
The Curry Chronicles, Part 1
[hr] Rustum Kozain dishes up some definitives on the many incarnations of curry and the art, or science, of making it real. [hr] The world of curry is confusing. The root of the word, “curry”, is from the Tamil ka’ri, which means sauce/ gravy/ relish – a generic term. And so even a stew (the […]
CAMFRANGLAIS – a lexicon
By Stephane Akoa (translated by Karen Press) Avoir la godasse: avoir le bras long To own shoes/soccer boots: to be powerful C’est gâté : en panne, cassé, abîmé [une voiture ou un fruit] It’s rotten (fruit), a wreck (a car); to start a fight. Djonss Pilé: un gars chaud comme Michael Jackson quand il chantait: […]
What We Did After We Lost 100 Years of Wealth
By Agri Ismaïl “World finance had, in 2008, a near-death experience.” The words belong to a partner of a renowned international law firm. The partner was standing at the podium, looking over a sea of bearded faces within which bobbed a scattering of men and women without any facial hair, some of whom (those from […]