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Women take centre stage in the Market Theatre’s Shakespeare season

Friday Diane de Beer - 4 Sep 2020

The Market Theatre’s virtual offering, ‘Chilling with the Bard: A Shakespeare Season’, includes women performing traditionally male roles

‘There are Mechanisms in Place’: Collaboration births sacred text

Friday Nkgopoleng Moloi - 3 Sep 2020

‘There are Mechanisms in Place’, comprising text, poetry and visual analysis of Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum’s practice, reveals how working together is a powerful philosophy

Obituary: The pointillist detail and zen brush strokes of Jürgen Schadeberg

Friday Hazel Friedman - 3 Sep 2020

‘Drum’ photographer Jürgen Schadenberg, who died on Sunday, displayed a profound humanism, writes his friend and sometime collaborator Hazel Friedman

The Portfolio: Levy Pooe

Friday Levy Pooe - 1 Sep 2020

Artist Levy Pooe conceptualises his work as ‘a social diary of being black in the city’

An extract from ‘The Broken River Tent’: ‘I chose resistance!’

Friday Mphuthumi Ntabeni - 28 Aug 2020

In this extract from The Broken River Tent, by Mphuthumi Ntabeni, the protagonist, Phila, makes a fiery courtroom speech

Sakawa Review: Ghana, e-waste and online dating scams

Friday Taryn Joffe - 28 Aug 2020

Sakawa is a moving, sympathetic portrayal of an online dating fraud syndicate in Ghana

The Portfolio: Tommy Busakhwe

Friday Tommy Busakhwe - 27 Aug 2020

Photographer Tommy Busakhwe, a participant in the Communities of the Kalahari Advocacy Project, uses his camera to tell stories of home, land and the people who live and work on it

Msaki sings, and we heal

Friday Tseliso Monaheng - 27 Aug 2020

Msaki views her singing as a space from which to gather strength and courage

Gerhard Marx’s sculptural works map distance and detail

Friday Dave Mann - 24 Aug 2020

The works in the artist’s latest exhibition, Near Distant, centre on ‘distance without it turning into nearness’

Days of Cannibalism Review: Not a Hannibal Lecter story

Friday Tsakane Shikwambana - 21 Aug 2020

Days of Cannibalism tells a compelling story about Chinese traders moving into Lesotho in search of economic success and the effects this has on the Basotho people

Three new nonfiction book reviews

Friday Shaun De Waal - 20 Aug 2020

Shaun de Waal reviews three nonfiction books by Ruth Hopkins, Philippa Garson and Tom Eaton

The List: Author Mia Arderne’s influences

Friday Mia Arderne - 20 Aug 2020

Drawing from other mediums as well as literature, author Mia Arderne lets us in on her influences before and after writing ‘Mermaid Fillet’

The Portfolio: Nanna Venter

Friday Nanna Venter - 20 Aug 2020

‘Artsronaut’ Nanna Venter lets us in on her process for designing book covers, including for Lauren Beukes’s ‘Afterland’

Extract: ‘These Are Not Gentle people’ by Andrew Harding

Friday Andrew Harding - 20 Aug 2020

‘These Are Not Gentle People’ is an account, by Andrew Harding, the BBC correspondent in South Africa, of a murder in Parys, in the Free State, and what happened next. This extract is the book’s first chapter

Bob, Doctor and that oddball South African classic, ‘Get Funky’

Friday Kwanele Sosibo - 19 Aug 2020

Doctor Khumalo remembers his late friend Bob Mabena and their time working together on ‘Get Funky’

Extract from ‘Mermaid Fillet: A Noir Crime Novel’ by Mia Arderne

Friday Mia Arderne - 18 Aug 2020

This extract from Mia Arderne’s debut work of fiction, ‘Mermaid Fillet: A Noir Crime Novel’ introduces readers to Uncle ‘M16-in-your-bek’

Review: On ‘Twice as Tall’, Burna Boy bends Afrobeats to his will

Africa Kwanele Sosibo - 18 Aug 2020

Burna Boy’s fifth studio album, ‘Twice as Tall’, extends beyond the hype to reveal the Afrobeats star’s vulnerability

The landscape of meaning: mechanism and memory in depictions of disaster

Friday Amie Soudien - 13 Aug 2020

‘There Are Mechanisms in Place’ posits that the all-encompassing physicality of the landscape does not reference an ‘abstract’ danger, but one that is created by both nature and human design

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