The Muizenburg Stasi
The chief complaint in the Muizenburg Resident’s Association petition against the creation of a Muizenburg Safe Space seems to be that bringing sixty five homeless people into the area will overwhelm their private gestapo.
Belated | The Death Of Bunny Munro
The Death Of Bunny Munro – based on the novel by Nick Cave with music by Nick Cave and featuring a cameo from Nick Cave – is SPOILER ALERT about a character called Bunny Munro who dies.
Belated | Notes On Hats
Carlo Mombelli & The Prisoners Of Strange | 12/12/25
Circling where the venue should be, a rising niggle. It's not even nine yet according to the listing it’s late, I pay no mind: Jazz is the sufi word for time travel.
10: An Understanding Of Lack
She winds down her window.
“You need your bath.”
Opening the door, settling in, driving away from the intersection where all of us spend the days asking for change, whathaveyou.
Reactionary Reviews | Variasies Op ‘n Tema | Dir: Jason Jacobs & Devon Delmar
Variasies toes a line between elegiac and pretentious, and pulls off this high wire act by not resorting to hand-wringing, moving to a subtle, soul-shifting gestalt.
9: Life On Life’s Terms
He leaves the rehab fat and full of confidence. He is afraid of disappointing his mother. Glowing complexion, new clothes from the outside, and a shrug, happy to be clean, out the rusty gate, under the wide sky. Three months later he returns unrecognisable. Thin, more teeth gone, and a homeless tan, dark burnt by the sun.
Reactionary Reviews: 180 | Dir. Alex Yazbek | Netflix
At precisely 38:22 the newish Netflix algo-scripted revenge pile on, 180, falls apart with a single shot.
8: The Rehabilitation Of Necessity
He escapes from the clinic. Weeks of complaining about his feet, aching, sore to walk on, walking around the rehab wincing. There were discussions, in the three years he's been in rehab he has tried to run twice before – but now his feet are so sore. He walks barefoot around the rehab, wincing when anyone looks at him.
7: A Bed Of Stones
Quartz Street is cut in half by Highpoint. A husk of an apartment building atop a husk of a shopping centre, with a supermarket that is incredibly easy to shoplift from -if, like me, you are white. On the street above – Highpoint is in Hillbrow, just before the brow of the hill, on one side Quartz is a walkway, with stalls down the middle and hastily occupied and abandoned shops down the sides.
6: The Addiction Of Stigma
From the crisp cavern of the last of the stars I am woken with half a mug of semi warm sweet black tea. I can feel the warmth of the security hut lingering in this incursion of hands into my nest. There is a message for me on his phone – charging in the hut, I must come, he leaves shift in ten.