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Totally gone mad: Covid-19 and the Trump presidency

Friday Kwanele Sosibo - 16 Oct 2020

Tracing America’s bungling of the containment of the coronavirus, Totally Under Control unveils the deep rot in Trump’s presidency

Kamogelo Lebotse: The Portfolio

Friday Kamogelo Lebotse - 1 Oct 2020

Photographer Kamogelo Lebotse has been documenting the effects of the national lockdown on the people of Mahikeng

In Softie, politics takes a personal toll on Boniface Mwangi – and his family

Africa Simon Allison - 26 Aug 2020

Softie is an intimate portrait of how political activism complicates family life

The List: Five films on the transition, selected by Sifiso Khanyile

Friday Sifiso Khanyile - 13 Aug 2020

Sifiso Khanyile, the maker of Uprize! and A New Country, selects five documentaries that influenced his latest film

The Portfolio: Ramadan Suleman

Friday Ramadan Suleman - 13 Aug 2020

Ramadan Suleman’s documentary, ‘By All Means Necessary’ honours the struggle against colonialism. It will be showing at the Encounters Documentary Film Festival from August 20

Review: ‘Vukazithathe’, a portrait of the maskandi artist as a mentor and friend

Friday Dave Mann - 4 Jul 2020

Nthato Mokgata’s documentary ‘Vukazithate’, showing online at the National Arts Festival, tells an intimate story of his mentor and maskandi legend, Bhekisenzo “Vukazithathe” Cele

Moguls in their lifetime: The making of SA Hip-Hop Story

Friday Tseliso Monaheng - 21 Jun 2020

This new docu-series by Diliza Moabi, which began airing on SABC1 at the beginning of the month, allows the new generation to lead in telling their stories

Review: Dancing awkwardly around Michael Jordan’s legacy

Friday Kwanele Sosibo - 21 May 2020

The Last Dance, a Netflix documentary series about basketball player Michael Jordan, is a romantic reframing of his halcyon period that fails to engage with the politics of race in America

The parallel yet familiar world of Tjovitjo

Article Kwanele Sosibo - 23 Apr 2020

With season two set to debut on Netflix at the end of the month, filmmaker Vincent Moloi opens up on his artistic choices and inspirations.

Too little too late for Malcolm

Article Kwanele Sosibo - 21 Feb 2020

Doccie Who Killed Malcolm X? has led to a belated reopening of his murder investigation

On our lists this week: Deep House, the Global South and

Article Arts Desk - 24 Nov 2017

"Shake the Dust goes beyond a focus on dancing styles and techniques, choosing instead to highlight the friendships forged during the communal acts".

Women’s struggle gets rare exposure

Article Kwanele Sosibo - 24 Nov 2017

"Strike a Rock is quite clearly a broader exposition of the unglamorous slog that is organising women in impoverished, patriarchal communities".

Sea of red

Article Staff Reporter - 23 Sep 2009

Taiji's annual cull of bottlenose dolphins and pilot whales continues despite growing international condemnation.

At the rainbow’s end

Article Staff Reporter - 28 Nov 2008

MOVIE OF THE WEEK: Shaun de Waal on the political documentary Behind the Rainbow and the disappointing Mr Bones II.

Of dams and democracies

Article Staff Reporter - 15 Aug 2008

MOVIES OF THE WEEK: Shaun de Waal gives his view on "big-screen doccies" and reviews <i>Up the Yangtze</i> as well as <i> Please Vote for Me</i>.

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