Song of the day: Taken by Trees
Taken By Trees has a new album out which mixes Pakistani Qwaali music with Swedish pop sensibilities, an unlikely but mostly successful combination. East of Eden is the follow-up to 2007’s Open Field from Taken By Trees, a project of Victoria Bergsman, ex-frontwoman of The Concretes, and includes the fantastic, mood-setting To Lose Someone. [...]
Film and Publications Act: Media independence under fire
Despite widespread opposition the South African government has signed into law the Films and Publications Amendment Act 3 of 2009 (PDF). Published in the Government Gazette on August 28, the act is a wide-reaching amendment that is ostensibly designed to clamp down on the publication of child pornography but in fact introduces a range of [...]