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Children of Sugarcane: Where nothing sweet endures

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With a rich plot full of surprises, Joanne Joseph’s debbut novel is bound together by a poetic turn of phrase

Johannes Phokela is on the comeback trail

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A new exhibition at Zeitz Mocaa in Cape Town should reinstate the talented artist as one of South Africa’s leading painters

The Portfolio: Shooting the maestro

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It took two shoots to nail down a worthy Barney Rachabane portrait

Spinning into control

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Original Creative Breed’s new documentary tracks the trajectory of the underground automotive sport

Malcolm Jiyane: A tale of two albums

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The jazz musician’s album comes with a backstory as good as the music itself

Queertopia: In pursuit of an expansive queerness

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The reimagined, three-day country of Queertopia dares to imagine a world ‘designed by and for queer communities’

Singer-songwriter Theuns Jordaan dies after short struggle with cancer

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The distinctive quality of Theuns Jordaan’s voice meant he became a standard part of the South African music landscape, particularly the Afrikaans market

The refreshing nostalgia of Silk Sonic

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Silk Sonic’s adventurous nostalgia is not a testimony to older music being better but rather the artists offer a listening experience that is refreshing because it is so different to what popular ears have become accustomed to

Abdulrazak Gurnah: Nobel prize honours a self-effacing and unassuming talent

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Not many knew of the unheralded Zanzibari author who has steadily produced 10 novels

Lewis Nkosi Selected Milestones: Writing and Honours (COMPILED BY SANDILE NGIDI)

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A list compiled by Sandile Ngidi

Lewis Nkosi: The physical bearer of the offending word

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In his lifetime, Lewis Nkosi arguably saw little effort in terms of intense engagement with his controversial critical inputs. In a review of a new anthology, Unathi Slasha tries to correct that

Hullo, Bu-Bye, Koko, Come In shapeshifts into another dimension

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Koleka Putuma’s triumphant adaptation allows audience to see stagecraft influence poetry

The Portfolio: A return to eMbo

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Artist Noncedo Gxekwa on the image Isambulo, part of the exhibition Lightworkers: The evidence of things unseen

The Grief of Strangers

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Through Umhlobo Wenene’s ‘Imiphanga’, writer Lidudumalingani remembers his mother connecting with the pain of others

The many faces of death

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The grief of others can ease our pain in these calamitous times

‘He is taking photographs of your house!’

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Why grotesque graffiti the inheritance of the living in Soweto?

In the castle of Bheki Peterson’s care

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A master of anecdotes, the late Professor Bhekizizwe Peterson raised a generation of black thinkers

Imraan Coovadia on ‘The Poisoners’ and keeping science honest

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