STYLE
Putting the cause on the runway
Lynley Donnelly spoke to three local designers about their collections and how fashion can be a vehicle to help raise awareness of HIV/Aids at the the second annual Positive fundraising extravaganza

FINE ART
The art of positive thinking
Sun City’s second Positive bash is a layer cake of art and entertainment celebrating survival, writes Matthew Krouse

STYLE
Botswana’s small step for fashion
Tumi Makgetla speaks to fashion designer Mpho Kuaho from Botswana who has dressed models for the Durban July horse race

BOOKS
A history in posters
Keorapetse Kgositsile’s foreword to Red on Black: The Story of the South African Poster Movement by Judy Seidman

BOOKS
Final credits for Sembene
Percy Zvomuya pays tribute to novelist and filmmaker Ousmane Sembene

MOVIES
Ring a ding ding
NOT QUITE THE MOVIE OF THE WEEK: It’s the year of the threequels and this week, it’s the turn of what might be called a thirteenquel: Ocean’s 13, writes Shaun de Waal

BOOKS
Into the heart of consumerist hell
This year the cameras move away from emaciated African children, writes Niren Tolsi

MUSIC
Grrrrr politics
The Gossip have transformed themselves from a garage rock band into a radical punk outfit, and lead singer Ditto is on a mission to tackle hypocrisy in world politics as well as the gender status quo, writes Lloyd Gedye

MUSIC
The voice to stop catcalls in the throat
The Gossip's leas singer, Beth Ditto's advice for women on how to deal with catcalls in the street

BOOKS
Searching for the golden mean
The second Cape Town Book Fair, an event about letters and words, seems -- in its official media releases at least -- to be obsessed instead with figures and numbers, writes Darryl Accone

MOVIES
Documentary, mockumentary, monsters and more
Niren Tolsi looks some of the documentary films to be featured at this year's Durban International Film Festival

BOOKS
African books for all
Stephanie Wolters talks to Adewale Maja Pearce, co-founder of The New Gong publishing house, about the challenges of African publishing

FINE ART
Tailored to subvert
Four artists exhibiting in Cape Town are unmaking the world as we know it, writes Carl Collison

THEATRE
Singing Winnie in Toronto
Bongani Ndodana-Breen’s new opera tackles the complex character of a national heroine, writes Brent Meersman

MOVIES
I’d like to thank ...
COMEDY OF THE WEEK: The neurotic and ego-driven world of the Academy Awards in For Your Consideration. Peter Bradshaw has more

MOVIES
Dog eat dog
DRAMA OF THE WEEK: Shaun de Waal reviews Nick Cassavetes’s film, Alpha Dog

MUSIC
Reality rap
While the likes of 50 Cent spin gangsta fantasies, rapper K’Naan has the brutal realities of life in war-torn Mogadishu to draw on. Robin Denselow meets Somalia’s hip-hop traveller