WHY PRIDE IS STILL IMPORTANT
With Joburg Pride mere days away, many are asking if Pride has lost its relevance. With the most gay-friendly Constitution in the world, do we still need to be marching in the streets?
MAMBA BOOKS: I AIN’T YO BITCH
Karabo Kgoleng reviews an explosive new novel about a young woman coming to terms with her sexual orientation in contemporary South Africa.
MAMBA GOSSIP
Lily Allen to quit music, British rugby bear poses for gay mag, Kellan Lutz works out, Heather Locklear returns, Sex and City girls’ cat-fighting and much more.
MAMBA MOTORING
Since 2003, Christo Valentyn has reviewed more cars for Mamba than he can remember. In his final motoring feature he looks at 15 cars that impressed, and appalled, him in 2009.
THE ORIGINS OF PRIDE
Just days ahead of Joburg Pride 2009, Mambaonline takes a look at the history of the gay Pride movement. How did it all begin and how has Pride changed over the years?
MAMBA READS
In our first Mamba Reads offering, Morné Malan takes a hustle through the bookstore’s homo-shelf, and asks what’s in a gay book, and what makes a book gay?
MAMBA SPINS
We boogey to the beat of recent musical offerings from Green Day, Daniel Merriweather, La Roux, Jonas Brothers, Tori Amos and more…
MAMBA GOSSIP
Reality star models underwear, Becks shows off his jocks, Boy George celebrates freedom, Sex and the City movie secrets, Paula stunned to be replaced, Britney sings live, and more.
THE SODOMITES WANT TO RECRUIT YOU
We are multiplying, recruiting and taking over the world. Soon heterosexuals will be replaced with the superior faction of the human race; the Sodomites.
Q&A: ROBERT SILKE
Robert Silke, co-writer and director of the wacky mockumentary The Satyr of Springbok Heights, speaks to Herman Lategan about his crazy and entertaining flick.