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Vus'umuzi Phakathi

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Singer-songwriter Rodriguez performs on stage at Benaroya Hall on July 12, 2015 in Seattle, Washington. (Photo by Mat Hayward/Getty Images)

Cold Facts about the Sugar Man

It was in the smoky bars of Detroit, where the downside of industrialisation burdened the air, that Rodriguez had started to tell stories

Chester and Papa Action in a car in the series ‘Yizo Yizo’. (The Bomb Shelter)

Pioneer in the art of cinema of the personal

From TV series to films and adverts, Teboho Mahlatsi was ahead of his time

Notable: The Mzansi National Philharmonic Orchestra

Orchestra unites the country with music

Bongani Tembe’s Mzansi Philharmonic crosses genres and art forms to reach people

Courtyard Hotel WaterfallCity-TheHighline

Where to from here for the hotel and hospitality industry?

Innovation is the metronome to the rhythm of survival and triumph

Marlo Minnaar and Katlego Chale, a brotherhood forged in confinement. (Lungelo Mbulwana)

Gods on earth: ‘The Brothers Size’ review

Gods find their freedom in this staging of Tarell Alvin McCraney’s play at the Market Theatre

A stage, a graveyard, a place of mourning. Image: John Hogg

The endless darkness of mourning: ‘Cion: Requiem of Ravel’s Boléro’ returns

A tour de force of 20 dancers from Gregory Maqoma’s Vuyani Dance Company, and 18 singers as fellow mourners, Cion unpacks the centuries of incessant mourning by black people

Patrick Shai was laid to rest on Saturday January 29. (Photo by Gallo Images / Lungelo Mbulwana)

The work of Patrick Shai: A pleasurable pleasure to experience

A champion against gender-based violence, Shai’s private life was often relfected in his public work, and his acting roles

Playwrights Refiloe Lepere and Khutjo Green sign copies of Hauntings at the Kuwamba Women’s Theatre Festival. Photo: Ezra Selulu

Prepare to enter the ‘Hauntings’

The voices and the stories in this collection let you connect with the empty spaces in your mind

Dynamism: Koleka Putuma (above), the author of Hullo, Bu-bye, Koko, Come In and Collective Amnesia. Photo: Jarryd Kleinhans

Review: Koleka Putuma brings black women history back into the fold

The poet’s new book does the necessary work of reinscribing women into history, but is it poetry

The voices in Makhafula Vilakazi’s head

A poet raised in transit, Makhafula Vilakazi speaks from the margins, even as he has almost escaped them

Hungani Ndlovu and Khathu Ramabulana ricochet from mirthful clowning to urgent, existential despair and back again. (Photo: Suzy Bernstein)

Pass Over: Waiting for nothing less than a shift

Playwright Antoinette Nwandu’s response to Waiting for Godot is a crystal-clear directive: stop killing us

Comic Loyiso Gola’s ‘Unlearning’ is superb storytelling, but just that

“How much of your life is just living off other people’s expectations of you?” he asks in his new special. While thought-provoking, the real question is: Is it funny?

Vusi Kunene and Thulani Nyembe seemed unrehearsed in their portrayal of ‘The Man’, a condition that may improve with further performances. (Lungelo Mbulwana)

Review: ‘The Mother of All Eating’ suffers an unworthy restaging

The Market Theatre’s latest incarnation of Zakes Mda’s play is found sorely wanting

The Portfolio: Tshepiso Mazibuko

Photographer Tshepiso Mazibuko says she is an artist at heart, and lets her imagination take control

The Portfolio: Nocebo Bucibo

Photographer Nocebo Bucibo explores the role of photography in the production of the Thokoza hostels as spaces