‘I was the only one in the business when I started’

A decade later, Skin of Skunk Anansie is still something of an anomaly as a black female lead singer of a successful punk band.

Sandra Laing is an unlikely heroine, whose story reflects the country’s painful past. Faranaaz Parker speaks to the director of Skin, Anthony Fabian.

A sci-fi blockbuster that’s also an allegory of apartheid? <i>District 9</i> is the biggest of a glut of films about South Africa’s traumatic past.