Love it but left it : left it but love it

Edito: My thanks to Professor Ben Cousins, who holds the DST/NRF Research Chair in Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies at the University of the Western Cape, for sending me this article, which brings into question the conventional media wisdom that land...

Edito:Just was we were leaving Abdullah Ibrahim's concert after being lifted along with the crowd into a spiritual trance, a little boy around six blew loudly on his Vuvuzuela before his mother grabbed it away from him and he was led off protesting. According...

Edito: A number of you have written to express your appreciation of the blog and being connected through it. My subscription for the space expires in November 2010, so I will continue to publish any feedback, pictures, articles, creative writing or other...

Edito: We arrived at about 7 pm in time to catch a folk session with Nibs van der Spuy and Piers Facini in a perfect setting, with sunshine and spectators sitting on the sloping lawns and even whiffs of marijuana on the breeze coming off the Garonne river....

Edito: Pictures of Abdullah Ibrhaim, Thandiswo Mazwai and her band, Via Katlehong and Freshly Ground, which we saw last night. Abdullah Ibrahim is a master of spirit and mood, Thandiswo has a beautiful voice and makes lovely music, the Via Katlehong dancers...

Edito : A couple of months ago, out of the blue, I got an email ll from someone I had been at school with and then at Wits University in Johannesburg, Dan O'Meara. it was the first time we'd communicated in 40 years. Rio Loco gave us a pretext for meeting...

Edito : The organisers have just sent me ths information on a seminar/debate to be held this evening on the Rio Loco Festival site. The subject is: "Has the political transition in South Africa been successful?" Speakers will be dealing successively with...

Edito: I'll be offline for a week or so but hope to send you some pictures of the opening of Rio Loco on 17 June. In the meantime, let's flip to South Africa for World Cup colours. Giselle Wulfsohn sent out this last minute visual roundup before the matches...

Edito: I had already met and heard Antjie Krog briefly on Friday at the Théâtre des Mazades where she spoke on a panel with Achmat Dangor, Pap Ndiaye and Zoë Wicomb. Las night she was at the ABC cinema to introduce John Boorman's film "In the Country'...

Edito: Through my interpreting work I meet all kinds of people, from a seed-line merchant showing off trial plots of sorghum to Australian industrialists to high-level takeover negotiators for global players, but last night's mission was a first for me....