SA launches satire in cyberspace Source: BBC News
A South African satire show which was ditched by the state-owned broadcaster after its pilot episode has finally been launched - but only on the web.
Nigeria 'offended' by sci-fi film Source: BBC News
Nigeria's government is asking cinemas to stop showing a science fiction film, District Nine, that it says denigrates the country's image.

South Africa's interim President has won plaudits for his stewardship but is his popularity straining divisions within the ANC?
William Gumede in Johannesburg and Sue Cullinan in Paris

First, you'll have to excuse my blatantly plagiarized title, as I borrow the headline of this post from a collection of writings from Steve Biko, a Black Consciousness leader who was brutally killed while in detention by South African Police in the 1970's.

The right-wing Afrikaner Resistance Movement / Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging (AWB), has announced its re-activation to combat what it describes as a rapidly-deteriorating situation in South Africa.

As with all emerging musical sub-divisions, 'Spaza' is still in the process of defining itself, and this makes it quite hard to pin down. The term itself seems to have been coined in Cape Town to describe artists who rap in a combination of isiXhosa and English.

I will never be able to take a rapper seriously who copies someone else's culture.
'real' is not about kasi, rural or urban, or about race. real is representing who you are and where you're from.

Super Rugby is now in its 12th season and to date has only been won by three teams: The Blues and Crusaders from New Zealand and the Brumbies from Australia. That is all about to change this weekend.