The Arrows were hard at work making toe-tapping tunes long before their hit single ‘Lovesick’ exploded on local radio stations and TV’s. Durban-based musicians Pam de Menezes and Christie Desfontaine released their first EP back in late 2007 and were already making a name for themselves, touring the country with back to back gigs. Their [...]

Greg Darroll is a 23-year-old Durban-based illustrator & graphic designer, also known as Tokyo-Go-Go. Generally working with vector graphics, he designs clean, colourful, crazy illustrations that get people thinking, laughing or just immersed in detail. He is fascinated by anything and everything creative, however characters, designer toys, 2D animation and T-shirt illustrations are just a [...]

Neil Roake is a name many Durbanites recognize. He’s a busy guy who has been involved in the advertising, retail and food industry for the last 20 years. He was behind the Durban Designer Emporium, and co-founded The Space, which was named one of the 100 coolest shops on the planet by Wallpaper magazine. He [...]

Sharks lock Alistair Hargreaves is a Durban boy through and through. After attending Durban High School, where he was captain of rugby and headboy in 2004, he went on to represent the SA o/19 side to the o/19 World Cup in 2004 and 2005 and captained the winning 2005 side. In 2006 he represented the [...]

There are over 100 million land mines buried beneath the surface of this Earth. Someone steps on a mine every 19 minutes – usually women and children. Whole communities live in constant fear and terror thanks to these weapons. The Mineseeker Foundation is dedicated to the detection, identification and removal of landmines. It also seeks [...]

Born in Goma (East DRC), Tresor is a musician, now based in Durban. His style is greatly influenced by soul, rock, experimental, reggae and world music and he sings in a combination of English, French and Swahili. Tresor moved in Durban to pursue his music in a much more developed industry, where he hooked up [...]

John Bushell is an interesting guy. Originally from Liverpool, he started learning to engineer software when he was just 7-years-old. His love affair with computers has blossomed and he’s just launched an internet startup that has people scratching their heads around the water cooler. The basis of Moral Experiment: If you came into some money, [...]

Glen Bo is an award-winning, alternative stand-up comedian. Five years in the U.K influenced his style which is a mix of dark Brit surrealism and wit, South African story-telling and pure rock’n’roll. He started comedy in SA but after 2 years moved and cut his comedy teeth in England. Gigging solidly working with the industry’s [...]

John Ellis, the Durban singer-songwriter who formed and fronted Tree63, one of South Africa’s most well known bands, launched his solo career in 2010 after more than a decade of international success. His debut solo album, Come Out Fighting was released in June 2010 and represents a new chapter for this seasoned and experienced artist. [...]

Toni Rowland is a singer-songwriter, currently based in Durban. Her debut solo album was recorded in Spain with legendary Uriah Heap musician Ken Hensley. Her ‘classic-rock/adult contemporary’ style was honed while still living in Pretoria performing with her band Mantis for many years. Her album sales cover the globe from Brazil to Australia, South Africa [...]