ÜBER-EDITOR OF THE MONTH
Über-editor Marc Lottering
Who you calling miserly?
Who will be our next ed?
Marc’s creds
South Africa’s a funny place. It’s got lots of funny people. And some are damn hilarious. Every month, khuluma chooses a particularly amusing individual to be our über-editor. This funny man or woman interrogates prominent South Africans for us. So book your flight for next month to see who it’ll be, or check out www.khulumaonline.co.za.
Marc Lottering hails from Cape Town and is one of South Africa’s top comedians. After 13 years in the entertainment industry, he still keeps audiences in stitches across the country and his self-scripted one-man shows, featuring his unique and popular characters, continue to play to packed houses. When he’s not performing locally, he travels and entertains abroad.
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DECEMBER 2013
kulula.com
picture: morné van zyl
HO HO HO! And so here we are, sprinting towards 2014! It’s a festive month for many, and for others, a time to reflect quietly upon the fact that the only time you paid any thought to your 2013 New Year’s resolution was around midnight, at that awful party when you eventually started downing cheap, lukewarm bubbly. Yip, your friend’s a dodgy host – don’t make that mistake again. I hate to sound like that person who doesn’t have any stimulating conversation, but I am going to say this anyway: Can you believe how quickly December happened to us?! I know it always comes straight after November (every year), but I’ve been caught off guard again. I’m still going to find myself looking for a parking bay outside overcrowded malls, gently edging my car forward, just behind somebody’s bum, only to be told, ‘I’m not leaving!’ Take hope … this month too shall pass. And take hope in the knowledge that, amidst all the madness, the world is full of fabulous people. I got to interview two such South Africans for this issue of khuluma: Tanya Nefdt, the vibrant journalist and TV presenter from eNews Channel Africa; and Mzoli Ngcawuzele, owner of the successful braai-and-beer spot, Mzoli’s Place, in Gugulethu. Tanya is vivacious and charismatic – like I was looking in a mirror! I was struck by how in awe she was of me. And so I was in awe of her. Loved chatting to her. I interviewed Mzoli at Mzoli’s on a Friday afternoon. The place was pumping with foreigners and locals! Beer, meat and big laughter was the order of the day. And Mzoli is a serious man with a huge heart – a real inspiration. About the cover, that’s me as the title character in Scrooge – an adaptation of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol. Directed by Lara Foot, the show also features Shaleen Surtie-Richards, Andrew Buckland and Christo Davids. It’s on at the Baxter Theatre until the end of January 2014. Run to Computicket once you land! For stand-up comedy lovers, come and sit down at Grand Arena, GrandWest on 7 December for the Marc Lottering Comedy Roadshow. And finally, for couch potatoes, get your lovely hands on my latest DVD, I Don’t Work On Sundays, in stores nationwide. Happy 2014! Peace out. ■