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Nobhongo Gxolo
Nobhongo Gxolo is a Cape Town based writer
The Brother Moves On: Going back to move forward
The performance ensemble visits poignant moments in Africa’s history. Their music is time travel
Thandi Ntuli explores the sense of exile in her latest work
A perspective on the nuance of creation by pianist, composer and singer Thandi Ntuli, who through her lineage traversed from exile to integration to produce this work
Kinky kitchen: Erotic bites excite the appetite
Cultural rehabilitator and bondage practitioner Tapiwe Guzha explores the sensual possibilities offered by food
The day Thembe Mahlaba won an Emmy award
Thembe Mahlaba, one third of Pap Culture, recounts how the channel got into its groove
Album review: ‘Indaba Is’, a rite of remembrance
The collaborative album Indaba Is, facilitated by Siyabonga Mthembu and Thandi Ntuli, is greater than the sum of its parts
Healing herbs and heritage
For a lot of Africans, traditional and Western medicine have a symbiotic relationship and are not deemed opposites
Q&A Sessions: ‘Food is central to every occasion’
Award-winning chef and local legend Dorah Sitole, who spent years as the editor and food editor at True Love magazine, celebrates a culinary journey to savour through her latest…
Indigenous food revivalists are cooking up a spiritual connection
Culinary activists such as Zayaan Khan and Tapiwa Guzha are prompting us to revisit and reclaim familiar, familial and traditional identities
Spha Mdlalose finds her way home
The musician’s debut album, ‘Indlel’eyekhaya’, defies genres in its blend of jazz, gospel and R&B
A big scoop for African indulgence
Corn bread and roasted plum, bacon and caramel are some of the flavours on his menu
Art and the heirs of redness
Buhlebezwe Siwani’s latest exhibition grew out of a trek and conversations with several women
The man behind the camera
The director and storyteller has been ‘shooting the feels’ and making melanin pop on screen
Celebrating Winnie Madikizela-Mandela: Inside mam’ Winnie’s birthday concert
Nobhongo Gxola recounts the celebration of the ‘Mother of the Nation’ official octogenarian status.
Open Book Festival: Thinkers and writers talk black feminism, queer politics and TRC
Dreadlocks, gender and the state of the nation came under scrutiny at the Open Book Festival.
Third Culture Experiment’s tripe and ginger beer debuts at SA’s street food festival
Murphy’s law struck when, in year three of the street food fest, Nobhongo Gxolo upped the ante and set up a stall.