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Missing in storytelling: African countries are squandering film and tourism gains
Friday
/ 5 September 2025

Missing in storytelling: African countries are squandering film and tourism gains

There is an urgent need for investment in diverse, homegrown narratives as African cinema struggles for authentic representation at global festivals, often tokenised

By Shoks Mnisi Mzolo
Benjamin Jephta’s Homecoming: A decade of jazz, gratitude and innovation
Friday
/ 5 September 2025

Benjamin Jephta’s Homecoming: A decade of jazz, gratitude and innovation

With a new album marking 10 years in the music industry, Benjamin Jephta reflects on his journey while pushing South African jazz into the future

By Kibo Ngowi
Diary: FNB Joburg Art Fair, Hendrick Monyeki and Open Book Festival
Friday
/ 5 September 2025

Diary: FNB Joburg Art Fair, Hendrick Monyeki and Open Book Festival

Your essential dose of art and culture

By Kibo Ngowi
A day of art, vibes and black joy
Friday
/ 4 September 2025

A day of art, vibes and black joy

BMW Art Generation fused music, fashion and community ambiance in an event that outshone traditional notions of art

By Thembeka Heidi Sincuba
Beyond the script: Govan Whittles on vulnerability, curiosity and truth
Friday
/ 3 September 2025

Beyond the script: Govan Whittles on vulnerability, curiosity and truth

In Govan Ontbloot, Whittles leaves judgment behind to share meals, conversations and vulnerability with communities often excluded from South Africa’s narrative

By Rolland Simpi Motaung
Moffie: The goosebumps are real
Friday
/ 2 September 2025

Moffie: The goosebumps are real

Charl-Johan Lingenfelder transforms theatre through sound, turning noise into emotion in his latest work Moffie

By Keith Bain
Hotstix, hot legacy
Friday
/ 29 August 2025

Hotstix, hot legacy

From Burn Out to BMW Art Generation, Sipho ‘Hotstix’ Mabuse remains a cultural giant shaping South Africa’s sound and spirit.

By Thembeka Heidi Sincuba
Diary: Siki Jo-An Live in Durban, BMW Art Generation at Nirox Sculpture Park and the Namaqualand Flower Festival 2025
Friday
/ 29 August 2025

Diary: Siki Jo-An Live in Durban, BMW Art Generation at Nirox Sculpture Park and the Namaqualand Flower Festival 2025

Your essential dose of art and culture

By Kibo Ngowi
A chance for redemption on Star Line
Friday
/ 29 August 2025

A chance for redemption on Star Line

Chance the Rapper returns with Star Line, blending soulful introspection, social commentary and faith-driven hip-hop, proving his voice is stronger than ever

By Kibo Ngowi
BlackByrd soars higher
Friday
/ 27 August 2025

BlackByrd soars higher

A heartfelt look at BlackByrd’s journey of sisterhood and evolution and their new single Home

By Lesego Chepape
How I became a rockstar in four months
Friday
/ 24 August 2025

How I became a rockstar in four months

Rebecca Malope sparked a fire in me as a child. Decades later, I honoured that flame with my first full-band performance

By Busi Lethole
Asanda Ruda’s body of healing
Friday
/ 22 August 2025

Asanda Ruda’s body of healing

Melding protest, lyricism and ancestral tradition, Asanda Ruda’s Kemet is a visceral journey of emancipation, healing and artistic defiance

By Keith Bain
Exile in Cairo: Between the Nile and the struggle
Friday
/ 22 August 2025

Exile in Cairo: Between the Nile and the struggle

Morley Nkosi recalls exile in Cairo, where cramped rooms, African solidarity and global politics shaped the uncertain journey to freedom

By Morley Nkosi
Diary: Scorpion kings live at Loftus Stadium, Ofentse Sebula to tour Johannesburg and eSwatini and Gresham Tapiwa Nyaude showcases at JAG
Friday
/ 22 August 2025

Diary: Scorpion kings live at Loftus Stadium, Ofentse Sebula to tour Johannesburg and eSwatini and Gresham Tapiwa Nyaude showcases at JAG

Your essential dose of art and culture

By Lesego Chepape and Busi Lethole
Picturing the future with care and collaboration
Friday
/ 21 August 2025

Picturing the future with care and collaboration

At a three-day gathering in Johannesburg, the Black Women in Photography Conference centres their voices, struggles and legacies

By Lesego Chepape
Taking back Africa’s wealth
Friday
/ 20 August 2025

Taking back Africa’s wealth

Can the continent shift from resource dependency to industrial power? A new book explores a bold roadmap for reclaiming economic sovereignty

By Ahmet Sait Akcay
Chef is cooking with purpose, rooted in conservation
Friday
/ 16 August 2025

Chef is cooking with purpose, rooted in conservation

Simon Lehutso is using his love of nature and food to nourish and educate youths at a wilderness school in Limpopo, where he grew up

By Lesego Chepape
Mapping power, memory and belonging through collage
Friday
/ 15 August 2025

Mapping power, memory and belonging through collage

Collages crafted by 2025 FNB Art Prize winner Thato Toeba confront colonial legacies and celebrate African intimacy and connection

By Lesego Chepape
Diary:  Kamyar Bineshtarigh’s Group Show to open at  Southern Guild this August, Don Toliver part of 2025 DStv Delicious line up and Apples releases Magic
Friday
/ 15 August 2025

Diary:  Kamyar Bineshtarigh’s Group Show to open at  Southern Guild this August, Don Toliver part of 2025 DStv Delicious line up and Apples releases Magic

Your essential dose of art and culture

By Lesego Chepape
The garden that eats Frantz Fanon
Friday
/ 14 August 2025

The garden that eats Frantz Fanon

Artist Nolan Oswald Dennis’s installation turns theory into soil, questioning who gets to decide what’s important — and why

By Thembeka Heidi Sincuba
The art of the hustle
Friday
/ 13 August 2025

The art of the hustle

From fintech workshops to live podcasts, HEATSKRS CON blends creativity and commerce, giving youth the tools to thrive in Africa’s creative economy

By Rolland Simpi Motaung
Three stays that prove the Joburg CBD still has style
Friday
/ 13 August 2025

Three stays that prove the Joburg CBD still has style

Whether for business or leisure, getting accommodation in the Joburg city centre is not as crazy as it sounds, writes Richard Goller

By Richard Goller
Contra.Joburg creates space for art that finds you
Friday
/ 9 August 2025

Contra.Joburg creates space for art that finds you

The city’s most radical art festival returns to disrupt, inspire and reconnect the city through the raw power of studio-born creativity

By Lesego Chepape
Local threads, global dreams
Friday
/ 8 August 2025

Local threads, global dreams

A city kid reflects on Free State Fashion Week’s blend of bold ambition and rooted creativity in a landscape stitched with culture and courage

By S’bo Gyre
The architecture of speech: How to be heard
Friday
/ 8 August 2025

The architecture of speech: How to be heard

Southern Africa’s top speaker, Vus’umuzi Phakathi, unpacks the architecture of a powerful speech, mental illness, transformation and becoming visible in white spaces in an interview with Dshamilja Roshani

By Dshamilja Roshani
Diary: FNB Art Joburg returns for its 18th year, Lu Dlamini to perform at the Centre for Jazz and Popular Music and Kaleidoscope Festival returns this August
Friday
/ 8 August 2025

Diary: FNB Art Joburg returns for its 18th year, Lu Dlamini to perform at the Centre for Jazz and Popular Music and Kaleidoscope Festival returns this August

Your essential dose of art and culture

By Lesego Chepape
A lens, pen and a cause
Friday
/ 7 August 2025

A lens, pen and a cause

Three new books spotlight Indian South Africans who helped shape the nation — through resistance, reflection and reinvention in unexpected places

By Marlan Padayachee
In Akin Omotoso’s Marked, crime becomes the only cure
Friday
/ 6 August 2025

In Akin Omotoso’s Marked, crime becomes the only cure

Akin Omotoso’s Marked blends heart-pounding heist thrills with heartbreaking social critique in a story about motherhood, survival and a failing healthcare system

By Rolland Simpi Motaung
Opera’s comedy slipstream: A barber worth buzzing about
Friday
/ 5 August 2025

Opera’s comedy slipstream: A barber worth buzzing about

With razor-sharp timing, gymnastic vocals and uproarious performances, this production of The Barber of Seville is a riot of theatrical delight

By Keith Bain
‘Travel has been my classroom’
Friday
/ 2 August 2025

‘Travel has been my classroom’

From eSwatini to Johannesburg, poets are finding new voices through travel, collaboration and the transformative power of cultural exchange

By Rolland Simpi Motaung
10 Hours, 8 Tracks, 1 Lifetime: Apiwe Bubu’s 20-year journey to his debut album
Friday
/ 1 August 2025

10 Hours, 8 Tracks, 1 Lifetime: Apiwe Bubu’s 20-year journey to his debut album

Apiwe Bubu’s debut album is the culmination of a decades-long journey across continents, studios and genres — finally coming home to piano

By Kibo Ngowi
Walter Oltmann and the alchemy of wire
Friday
/ 1 August 2025

Walter Oltmann and the alchemy of wire

What does it mean to truly take your time? Artist shows us through a devotion to detail that transforms everyday materials into meditations on life, loss and transformation

By Thembeka Heidi Sincuba
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