The 5-star Pumba Private Game Reserve covers 6500 hectares of privately owned property in the Eastern Cape, and is malaria-free game viewing at its best. Pumba is situated only 22 km away from Grahamstown and 105 km from Port Elizabeth. ...

(A workshop physical theatre production) A taxi driver, affectionately nicknamed "Khudu" (tortoise) by his peers, journeys through various relationships (geographical as well as meta/physical) to determine where he is headed. One journey ends and another route/ine begins. Where can one ...

Courtesy of Ster-Kinekor An 18-year-old orphan from the slums of Mumbai is about to experience the biggest day of his life when, with the whole nation watching, he is just one question away from winning a fortune on Who Wants ...

Starting at the Albany Museum (the second oldest museum in South Africa), the tour includes an amazing variety of scenes and scenarios of 19th century military, judicial and religious life in Grahamstown. Of architectural interest are the buildings which include ...

(Curated by Carol Brown and Jenny Stratton in collaboration with the Durban Art Gallery) De Vlieg was probably the only professional white woman photographer on the 'front line' during the apartheid struggle and her images bring a different and ...

Courtesy of Ten10 Films (www.ten10films.com) A feel-good crowd-pleaser that reinvents Laurel and Hardy and turns them black. Elvis has to get to his wedding in Cape Town where Ayanda - his bride-to-be - awaits him. He detours to Durban ...

The stage is set. The lights are up. Prospero's books are open. Miranda wheels the barrow and Ariel has disappeared. A dream is being built in this barren wasteland of ash and scattered dust. The dream of an island, its ...

Courtesy of Video Vision From its gripping early moments, Genova has an immediacy and truthfulness which draw us into the story of a family coping with tragedy. A British university lecturer takes a job in Genova, hoping he and his ...

Curated by Heidi Erdmann and co-curated by Jacob Lebeko, featuring the work of Roger Ballen, Zander Blom, Lien Botha, Jacques Coetzer, Abrie Fourie, Nomusa Makhubu, Zwelethu Mthethwa, Barbra Wildenboer, Dale Yudelman and Bernie Searle Each artist contributes a unique ...

We kick off the 2009 Festival with the beautiful voices of two talented vocalists: from Oslo comes Norwegian singer Guro Gravem Johansen, Assistant Professor at the Norwegian Academy of Music, where she specialises in free improvisation, and from Cape Town ...

Tina Piek is well known throughout South Africa for promoting first-class performances that refresh and invigorate the traditions of dance. She is committed to the continuity of dance old and new as an effective tool for bridging cultural differences, and ...

Her Lady Macbeth (2007) was hypnotic, her Romeo and Juliet (2008) electrifying. Imagine how she'll do Carmen, that heartless hussy with a gypsy death wish! Masilo is a meteoric talent with conceptual chutzpah who finds old stories as fascinating as ...

What is a right of passage? How have similar rituals formed and perpetuated identities throughout history? These are the questions that started Emmanuel on the four-year meditation that culminated in this exhibition. There are five drawings and a 12-minute video ...

Courtesy of the Labia a.k.a. Il y a Longtemps que Je t'Aime Juliette moves in with her younger sister's family after a long estrangement in this beautifully nuanced study of familial tension and individual regeneration. After 15 years in prison, ...

We are all interconnected in the labyrinth of life. Our lives touch one another whether we know it or not. As we evolve we are linked by fewer and fewer degrees of separation. The piece follows the story of characters ...

Ex-cadre Buntu Somdaka has lived in the US for 18 years and is married to an Afro-American. Now he is plagued by nightmares that bring him home to Langa in the Western Cape. Will the sangoma be able to help ...

(South African Premiere) Appropriately timed to coincide with the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, this Pulitzer Prize-winning one-hander introduces Charlotte von Mahlsdorf, a German transvestite caught up in the great European dramas of the 20th ...

(World Premiere) Award-winning author and Sunday Times columnist Fred Khumalo used the old Sophiatown gangsters' greeting as a title for his compelling memoir. It tells of a young man growing up in Hammarsdale (outside Durban) in the 1980s when every ...

South African pianist Catherine Foxcroft is the darling of the critics and brings enthusiastic audiences to their feet time after time. She has a radiant stage presence which adds glamour and a sense of theatre to her memorable performances. She ...

The Jazz Festival in Grahamstown is renowned for the amazing mix of musicians gathered for a week together, teaching at the Standard Bank National Youth Jazz Festival by day and performing on the Main Jazz Stage at night. 300 students ...

Courtesy of Nu-Metro a.k.a. La Bellera esta en los ojos de quien la Mira This powerful dissection of sexual philandering and power play in a toxic affair between an arrogant older man and a vulnerable young woman is ...

Top young jazz players from around the country flock to Grahamstown each year to try their luck for the national bands, and attend the Festival sometimes as established bands. From the Moses Molelekwa Arts Foundation in Soweto comes the Taiwa ...

(Sound by James Webb, video by Storm Janse van Rensburg) Large-scale projections of cross-sections through bones and tissue form the theatrical landscape within which Pather uses dance and sound to dissect the containment of remembered pain. He says we are ...

A story about stories; about how we make sense. The performers pick themselves and their imaginations apart in this physical theatre tale of tales.

A conflation of composers from South Africa, Israel and Sweden is certainly worth experiencing. Pianist Andre Petersen began his education and career as a classical musician, but jazz has become his strength and love. He is firmly established on the ...

Courtesy of Video Vision This film has a Golden Lion from Venice, two Golden Globes and a Bafta (Best Actor) and was nominated for two Oscars, and it deserves them all and more. Rourke is magnificent as a battered dreamer ...

The nightly NYJF jam session includes professionals from the Main Jazz Stage in spontaneous collaboration, musicians attending the NYJF and locals eager to play.