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Material change: Bernie Molepo is the founder and managing director of Cosmopolitan Sourcing. Photo: Allaister Russel
BERNIE MOLEPO

From tea lady to MD – the power of self-belief

Bernie Molepo started her own fabric and wallpaper sourcing company

  • Lesego Chepape
4 min read
A proudly South African export: Lebohang Morake may be best known for his role in scoring The Lion King, but he has plenty of other stories to share. Photo: Delwyn Verasamy/M&G
ALCOHOLISM

Q&A Sessions: Lebo M — a lifetime of roaring

Lebo M tells us about his journey from South Africa to Hollywood, his days as a ballroom dancer and his successful battle against alcohol abuse.

  • Mia Williams
8 min read
Blankets, Boitumelo Motau
BLANKETS

The Portfolio: Boitumelo Motau on capturing a moment

Even in revisiting the space, I can never capture the moment, as if it were sucked into my camera when I pressed the shutter, muses Boitumelo Motau

  • Boitumelo Motau
2 min read
Positionality in social spaces: The artist’s self-portraits were taken from a place of distress, she says, as a reaction to intrusive comments about her appearance and to subvert expectations about her identity
ARTLAB DURBAN

The Portfolio: Thandokuhle Ngcobo

The photographer’s study looks at appearance-based prejudice

  • Thandokuhle Ngcobo
2 min read
An image frrom the forced removal series. (Deseni Soobben)
AFRAPIX COLLECTIVE

The Portfolio: Deseni Soobben

Deseni Soobben’s sensibilities have changed over the years, but she keeps revisiting the composition and design techniques she learned from her mentors

  • Kwanele Sosibo
4 min read
Informal miner exiting the community made mine shaft. Ermelo, Mpumalanga (Daylin Paul)
BROKEN LAND

Broken land brooding skies

Photographer Daylin Paul, inspired by a former colleague, brings into view coal’s devastation in Mpumalanga

  • Kwanele Sosibo
5 min read