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Great soul: A film about Robert Sobukwe is to be screened at Constitution Hill, where he was imprisoned.
CONSTITUTIONAL HILL

Diary: Sobukwe film screening, Kwasuka Sukela a fun event for the whole family and Kwaito makes a komeback

Sobukwe film screened at jail where he was kept In celebration of Pan Africanist Congress founder Robert Sobukwe, who would have been 100 years old on 5 December, the…

  • Charles Leonard
2 min read
Musical artist: Buhlebendalo will be performing at She Fest.
BUHLEBENDALO

Diary: She Fest comes to Constitutional Hill, Soweto’s Buskaid String Ensemble in concert,  Lu Dlamini to perform at UKZN

Your essential dose of art and culture

  • Lesego Chepape
2 min read
Unafraid: Sarah Ladipo Manyika brings stories to us that the publishing industry has studiously ignored — stories, for instance, about sensuous, older black women. (Paul Botes)
CONSTITUTIONAL HILL

Storytelling is in her blood

Evading gatekeepers helped the author write the African stories she wanted to read

  • Theresa Mallinson
8 min read
Painting through struggle: Fatima Meer’s work represents the harsh realities of prison and how she
ART EXHIBITIONS

Stolen moments of prison life

The art anti-apartheid activist Fatima Meer produced in jail not only documented prison life but became a form of resistance in itself

  • Same Mdluli
6 min read
AYANDA MABULU

Ayanda Mabulu on his explicit Zuma painting: ‘I am exposing the naked truth’

Mabulu has painted President Jacob Zuma licking the anus of a naked Atul Gupta, the two captured in an aircraft cockpit with an ANC flag on the side.

  • Kwanele Sosibo
3 min read
Bright future: David Modiba was mentored by great jurists while serving as a judges clerk at the Constitutional Court. David Harrison, M&G
CONSTITUTIONAL COURT

The Hill is alive with young justice

Clerks assigned to judges in the ConCourt remember their service with reverence and awe.

  • Chantelle Benjamin 1
12 min read
Jo’burg at night: Eskom says the Kriel power station cannot meet emissions standards.
CONSTITUTIONAL COURT

Former women prisoners to meet their captors on Conhill

Constitutional Hill will host an emotional reunion between former prisoners at the Old Fort Women’s Gaol and their wardens.

  • Staff Reporter
2 min read