A legendary Swiss festival meets the Cape Winelands as Montreux launches its first African edition in Franschhoek with global stars and jazz visionaries
Organisers Griffin Shea and Ntokozo Ndlovu speak about how silent reading clubs are transforming South Africa’s book culture
As two major jazz festivals converge in the Western Cape, what seems like competition may reveal a deeper story of collaboration, resilience and creative possibility
As the Joburg Film Festival returns in 2026, curator Nhlanhla Ndaba explains why craft, care and unseen labour are taking centre stage
South Africa’s creative sector went into the State of the Nation address with a clear demand: recognition, reform and rescue. What it received was silence. Just days before President Cyril Ramaphosa took to the podium, hundreds of film and television workers marched under the banner “Save SA Film Jobs”, warning that the industry was in […]
Lack of funds prevent provinces from carrying out their mandate to manage public library services
Thandiswa Mazwai celebrates 50 years and 30 years in music with the Sankofa Heritage Festival, blending heritage, innovation, and generational continuity
SACO’s conference tackles pressing questions: who owns creativity, how can creatives thrive and what does an African-led creative economy look like?
Through Milisuthando, cultural thinker Milisuthando Bongela confronts South Africa’s unfinished healing — reimagining nationhood, belonging and love through deeply personal storytelling
From an engineering degree to over 570 000 followers, Vafa Naraghi reflects on taking a leap of faith into comedy
Rebecca Malope sparked a fire in me as a child. Decades later, I honoured that flame with my first full-band performance
The composer of Mzansi Magic’s Genesis talks faith, sound and storytelling in South Africa’s latest gospel-infused telenovela
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Jazz and activism have long been intertwined, but how does the music speak today?
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Press release: The ACT Nyoloha Scholarship offers up to R300 000 for young South African artists
Ballet gave runner-turned-dancer Jerome Barnes purpose, strength and the power to defy limits
South Africa has lost a moral giant as the playwright who challenged injustice through art dies at 92
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The local series Spinners won a top award in China last month.
Three South African jazz musicians have second albums about
to hit the shelves
The biathle, Esona Sekeleni, and her mother have turned to crowdfunding and selling raffle tickets to raise the necessary funds
The list of 450 terms aims to provide clarity and certainty about SARS’s strategic objective and to encourage compliance
Artist have criticised the minister’s lack of vision; meanwhile, small businesses are also being hit hard
Disparate lobby groups (I Am For The Arts, for one) and think-tanks within the arts are stepping up to fill the void, creating the kind of groundswell that is known to make politicians hot under the collar and speaking nervously
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