Bongani Kona

Imraan Coovadia’s new book examines how poison has shaped political affairs in Southern Africa

In this extract, from the anthology Upshot curated by Lauren Beukes, the author imagines rich people and voters at home deciding on his character’s fate

Over and over again she writes about the lost children picked up on the United States border

I am at peace with the knowledge that religions might not be able to provide the answer to what or who God is but I am happy just to keep searching

Forever dealing with changes, The Brother Moves On regroups to stick it to the man.

There are many ways then of reading silence and the Goodman Gallery Cape Town’s latest group exhibition attests to this.

Omar Badsha’s ­photographs, on show at a retrospective exhibition in Cape Town, reveal an artist ­determined to show the humanity of his subjects.

For their next project, the Blk Jks have teamed up with performance art collective, the Brother Moves On, to present "Blk Brother".

The Oslo World Music Festival paid tribute to the role of music in addressing historical and contemporary struggles for freedom.

The highs, the lows, the in-betweens: they are all there in Imraan Coovadia’s astonishing novel.

New initiative Littlegig is well-intentioned and puts on a good show, but remains a commodity that functions only to confirm middle-class privilege.

New York-based MC Pharoahe Monch performed a single underground set in Cape Town, showing off the lyrical dexterity that has won him cult status.

Carlo Mombelli, Sannie Fox, The Brother Moves On and Madala Kunene outshine the foreign acts in a two-day smorgasbord of music in Cape Town.

The animating impulse in her work is a dedication to those who suffer – but don’t make – history, write Bongani Kona and Dudumalingani Mqombothi.

The singer has been ­involved with music since her early teens and says she was born to write.