dimanche 30 août 2009

Peter Harris' book "In a different time"

For those of us who left South Africa before the Soweto uprising, this lawyer's account of Umkhonto we sizwe activites, brutal government 'legal' repression and illegal hit squads fills in many gaps. Everything in the book is factual and as one reviewer puts it "it reads like a John Grisham novel, but it's all true."

I received it on Friday as a present from a friend who spent the summer in SA and couldn't put it down.

IN A DIFFERENT TIME. Peter Harris. Umuzi, 2008.

dimanche 16 août 2009

Documentary on Arte - Soweto Strings - Monday 17 Aug at 23h10

thanks to Telerama for advance notice of this documentary on Rosemary Nalden's music school, Buskaid, set up in Soweto in 1997. Film by Mark Kidel. Includes three years of footage, archives and a visit of the school's String Orchestra to Paris in 2007. Excerpt from the Telerama article: "Bouleversant, son documentaire ne cesse d'illustrer hors champ l'existence quotidienne de la township. Un enfer adouci par une musicienne d'exception, sans laquelle ces gamins seraient perdus à jamais." (Eléonore Colin- Telerama).

samedi 8 août 2009

LOVE IT BUT LEFT IT - TOULOUSE 2010

Photos by Giselle Wulfsohn

In 2010 the Rio Loco Festival will be featuring South African music and musicians. An occasion for all the local Sudafs in Toulouse to contribute to this 3 day festival. We're starting with this blog and counting on you to keep it alive and kicking... James Munnick, the longest-standing South African resident of Toulouse, will shortly be taking over as editor.