South Africa has had its fair share of Mandela scandals involving the misappropriation of the Mandela name to raise funds. This latest attempt on crowdfunding site Indiegogo smacks of opportunism and presents a monstrous eyesore and blot on our national heritage. Hands off Table Mountain and Madi...

DIGNITY AND indignation have a common etymologic root. When people speak of "Dignity" they often mean "Dig-ME-ty" as in the popular Whitney Houston anthem which goes: They can't take away my dignity… because the greatest love of all is happening to ME." We often reserve the right to become indign...

THE pretentious white-boy from Welkom who arrived on the Cape Town art scene during a millennial slump, had very little to show for himself except a big mouth. Young quickly made a name as an infamous rude-boy, whose method of operation was the hackneyed "art attack" involving one or more victims...

PICASSO's bulls reminds me of another bull story — apparently the same Marilyn Martin responsible for this years ground-breaking exhibition, curated a boycott-breaking show in Pinochet's fascist Chile during the reign of apartheid president PW Botha no less. Amazing really how things have changed...

IF IT were not for the seething acrimony of contemporary South African art criticism, the debate over Picasso's alleged appropriation of African art forms — the accusation of theft leveled by Sandile Memela and the subsequent belligerent reportage by Donaldson — would have probably descended into...