Tuesday, 31 January 2023
Lloyd Gedye is a freelance journalist who writes about business, technology and the arts. In addition to New Frame, he writes for City Press, the Mail & Guardian and Finweek, and is one of the founding editors of The Con.
From ghettotech and art rock to booty house and Gothic synth pop, it has been a stellar year for music. Lloyd Gedye picks his 10 best albums
The jazz veteran’s new album is drifting, but unwavering and beautifully poignant.
A move to renewable energy is inevitable, and necessary, but workers are insisting that they should not be the ones to carry the social costs of the transition.
As South Africa’s energy production shifts from fossil fuels to renewable sources, towns in Mpumalanga’s coal belt are rapidly sinking into decline.
Thandi Ntuli speaks about her momentous double album and what it means to feature on a Spike Lee Joint.
The recent Competition Commission hearings showed, again, how access to data is mediated by class in South Africa.
Rage Against the Machine’s virtuosic guitarist is back with a genre-bending album ‘rooted in the sonics of 2018’.
In 2015, Glencore was strong-armed out of Optimum Coal at the height of the Gupta’s power in South Africa. Under the Ramaphosa presidency the company’s prospects look rather different.
The guitarist and composer channels his rage at the rise of the right in Trump’s America, into two albums in which the virtuous and the
Before he evolved into a gifted multi-instrumentalist, Malcolm Jiyane expressed his inner world on canvas.
The release of Prince’s back catalogue is thrilling for fans, but also a reminder that art is commodity – even, and especially, in death.
Despite his undeniable virtuosity, Malcolm Jiyane shuns the limelight. In Part one of our two-part series, the artist opens up about his musical beginnings.
Two recent science fiction novels take a critical look at patriarchy by imagining alternate realities that offer a vision of a freer world.
New regulations aimed at protecting mobile data consumers have been delayed due to a legal challenge from South Africa’s big mobile
Concern is mounting about attempts to deal with child pornography as a media, rather than a criminal issue.