Monday, 27 March 2023
Andrew “Drew” Forrest is a freelance journalist who writes for New Frame on political and cultural topics. Drew is a South African media veteran, being the former deputy editor of the Mail & Guardian, assistant editor of Business Day and political editor of both publications. Outside interests include archaeology and singing slightly off-key tenor for the Johannesburg Bach Choir. He lives in Johannesburg.
Three pioneering women in three very different eras stand out for having broken down barriers in the male-dominated music industry.
This Sharp Read takes a look at International Brigade Against Apartheid, a collection of personal tales about the struggle for freedom with the emphasis on those who operated outside SA’s borders.
Despite his astounding abilities and a scorecard that reflects them, including 413 Test wickets, the Indian spin bowler has been sidelined by selectors, to the bafflement of fans and commentators alike.
Reigning supreme in the 1970s through to 1995 with Test play that kept the world spellbound, the island nations’ cricketers are now unlikely to reach those heights again.
A new book on the SA and ANC president is useful in some respects, but it covers too short a period of his reign and sheds almost no light on the internal workings of the man himself.
He has been a critically important shaper of Western popular culture. But at 80 it is time for Bob Dylan to exit the stage, argues the writer.
The ideology of empire and British colonialism, from the surpassing value placed on private education to the nonsensical wearing of uniforms, has deformed the education system.
As singer-songwriter Bob Dylan has won a Nobel Prize for literature, it is now respectable to subject his songs – and their political implications – to literary analysis.