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DJ Doowap is lighting up global dance floors with bacardi music
Friday
/ 4 July 2025

DJ Doowap is lighting up global dance floors with bacardi music

From Pretoria’s streets to global stages, DJ Doowap is remixing culture, sound and style with unstoppable bacardi energy

By Lesego Chepape
Campbell Meas is done waiting
Friday
/ 4 July 2025

Campbell Meas is done waiting

A candid look at Campbell Meas’s journey navigating creativity, identity and the challenges of breaking into the arts industry

By Busi Lethole
Diary:  Comedy Jam at The Houghton Hotel in August,  Vuma Levin returns with new album Allegories, Black Coffee at Hey Neighbour
Friday
/ 4 July 2025

Diary:  Comedy Jam at The Houghton Hotel in August,  Vuma Levin returns with new album Allegories, Black Coffee at Hey Neighbour

Your essential dose of art and culture

By Lesego Chepape
Siyazila: Siyababa Atelier and the sacred syntax of style
Friday
/ 1 July 2025

Siyazila: Siyababa Atelier and the sacred syntax of style

Mtshali’s latest collection renders death not as absence, but presence — grief draped in beauty, ritual and defiance

By Thembeka Heidi Sincuba
Between the lines: What South African stories reveal about men’s mental health
Friday
/ 1 July 2025

Between the lines: What South African stories reveal about men’s mental health

What happens when men can’t ask for help? These South African books offer raw, revealing answers

By Rolland Simpi Motaung
Faces and Phases of Resilience’ gives a frank account of SA past and present
Thought Leader
/ 1 July 2025

Faces and Phases of Resilience’ gives a frank account of SA past and present

Author Tinyiko Maluleke makes a valid case about our country during the dark apartheid years, and of the difficulties of misgovernance we continue to face

By Jo-Mangaliso Mdhlela
Sbusiso Jaca’s Tuneroyalty and the fight for independent artistry
Friday
/ 30 June 2025

Sbusiso Jaca’s Tuneroyalty and the fight for independent artistry

Homegrown tech is giving artists the power to own, protect and profit from their work

By Lesego Chepape
The ‘weight of heavy logs’: Masculinity and memory in Matabeleland
Friday
/ 27 June 2025

The ‘weight of heavy logs’: Masculinity and memory in Matabeleland

Filmmaker Nyasha Kadandara opens up about Matabeleland and the emotional journey behind her feature-length debut

By Rolland Simpi Motaung
Acts of resistance: The Market Theatre’s enduring power 49 years on
Friday
/ 27 June 2025

Acts of resistance: The Market Theatre’s enduring power 49 years on

A stage where South Africa’s truth and imagination have lived for 49 fearless years

By Lesego Chepape
Alexander Appolis on space, race and the pastoral imagination
Friday
/ 27 June 2025

Alexander Appolis on space, race and the pastoral imagination

Artist uses nature and cryptic visions in his paintings to highlight South Africa’s racial and spatial history

By Zanele S. Maduma
Diary: National Arts Festival, Thandiswa live at the Lyric, Sisonke Afrohouse
Friday
/ 27 June 2025

Diary: National Arts Festival, Thandiswa live at the Lyric, Sisonke Afrohouse

Festival returns with fresh fire and fearless talent For 11 days this winter, Makhanda becomes the beating heart of South African creativity and artistic innovation as the National Arts Festival lights up the Eastern Cape until 6 July.  A staple on the cultural calendar since 1974, the festival has long been a space for protest, […]

By Kibo Ngowi and Busi Lethole
Tasting the continent: a pan-African journey at Épicure
Friday
/ 26 June 2025

Tasting the continent: a pan-African journey at Épicure

Chef Coco takes diners on a delicious, continent-spanning journey through the continent’s diverse culinary traditions

By Kibo Ngowi
Ukubekezela: Mapping a fractured terrain
Friday
/ 24 June 2025

Ukubekezela: Mapping a fractured terrain

Senzeni Marasela’s ‘Waiting and Remembering’ uses her alter ego, Theodorah, and textiles to explore themes of loss, memory and black South African womanhood

By Thembeka Heidi Sincuba
Holding the powerful to account: War crimes and the new global reckoning
Friday
/ 24 June 2025

Holding the powerful to account: War crimes and the new global reckoning

From Nuremberg to The Hague and Rwanda to Gaza, author traces the relentless pursuit of justice for humanity’s darkest crimes

By Ahmet Sait Akcay
Between bows and hymns: Zawadi’s Ngimuhle and the sound of ancestral play
Friday
/ 20 June 2025

Between bows and hymns: Zawadi’s Ngimuhle and the sound of ancestral play

Through voice and vision, Zawadi channels her foremothers to reimagine tradition with soul, instinct and sonic power

By Nombuso Mathibela
Blue Notes for Bra Louis: The final beat of a jazz revolutionary
Friday
/ 20 June 2025

Blue Notes for Bra Louis: The final beat of a jazz revolutionary

An elder joins the ancestral band. We remember Louis Moholo-Moholo’s voice, rhythms, and roaring soul

By Atiyyah Khan
Diary: Mikhaela Faye’s Gaslighter,  Basha Uhuru Freedom Fest, The Hyena’s Tuckshop at Market Theatre
Friday
/ 20 June 2025

Diary: Mikhaela Faye’s Gaslighter,  Basha Uhuru Freedom Fest, The Hyena’s Tuckshop at Market Theatre

Your essential dose of art and culture

By Lesego Chepape
Nomzamo Mbatha and a dress worthy of a gallery
Friday
/ 19 June 2025

Nomzamo Mbatha and a dress worthy of a gallery

Fusing tradition and couture, Gert-Johan Coetzee’s dress for Nomzamo Mbatha redefines African royalty

By Lesego Chepape
Stories that shift us: Mandisa Zitha on what makes a great documentary
Friday
/ 19 June 2025

Stories that shift us: Mandisa Zitha on what makes a great documentary

As Encounters celebrates its 27th year, director Mandisa Zitha spotlights must-see films and the magic of documentary cinema

By Kibo Ngowi
Power, blood and spirits: Inside season 3 of Kings of Jo’Burg
Friday
/ 19 June 2025

Power, blood and spirits: Inside season 3 of Kings of Jo’Burg

An electrifying saga of supernatural warfare, family loyalty and the high cost of power in the Joburg underworld

By Rolland Simpi Motaung
Making Knowledge African: Suren Pillay and the struggle to decolonise the university
Friday
/ 19 June 2025

Making Knowledge African: Suren Pillay and the struggle to decolonise the university

A timely call to rethink how African history and knowledge can reclaim space in global narratives

By Ahmet Sait Akcay
Lumanyano Mzi: From Cape Town to the world
Friday
/ 13 June 2025

Lumanyano Mzi: From Cape Town to the world

Cape Town prodigy Lumanyano Mzi returns home to share the musical flair that carried him to global stages

By Kibo Ngowi
Umzulu Phaqa: Singing stories, shifting culture and making music her own way
Friday
/ 12 June 2025

Umzulu Phaqa: Singing stories, shifting culture and making music her own way

A genre-blending storyteller, Phaqa is redefining Zulu identity through culture-rich and fearless sound

By Lesego Chepape
Gavin Evans on fathers, faith and fearless reporting in South Africa
Friday
/ 12 June 2025

Gavin Evans on fathers, faith and fearless reporting in South Africa

Memoir is a gripping account of journalistic bravery, father-son reckonings and resilience

By Kibo Ngowi
Diary: 2025 Edinburgh Fringe Festival, The Fête de la Musique returns to Victoria Yards and Thandiswa Mazwai brings Belede and Sankofa to The Lyric Theatre
Friday
/ 12 June 2025

Diary: 2025 Edinburgh Fringe Festival, The Fête de la Musique returns to Victoria Yards and Thandiswa Mazwai brings Belede and Sankofa to The Lyric Theatre

Your essential dose of art and culture

By Lesego Chepape
Held hostage by grief: What Straw gets right (and wrong)
Friday
/ 11 June 2025

Held hostage by grief: What Straw gets right (and wrong)

Tyler Perry’s latest drama is both moving and maddening, shedding light on bereavement, motherhood and marginalisation

By Rolland Simpi Motaung
Standard Bank’s Art Lab turns Sandton Mall into cultural playground
Friday
/ 10 June 2025

Standard Bank’s Art Lab turns Sandton Mall into cultural playground

An experimental creative space in the heart of Sandton, Standard Bank’s new Art Lab redefines how everyday audiences experience and engage with art

By Lesego Chepape
Do the rite thing: Reflections on the transition to manhood
Friday
/ 9 June 2025

Do the rite thing: Reflections on the transition to manhood

Jeffrey Rakabe ponders transformation, trauma and tradition in a debut that challenges what it means to grow up

By Rodney Ghobril
Noxolo Dlamini returns to the stage as Sarafina
Friday
/ 6 June 2025

Noxolo Dlamini returns to the stage as Sarafina

Dlamini brings new life to a role born from resistance and South Africa’s historic youth uprising

By Busi Lethole
Structures of the forgotten: An installation of song, soil and spirit
Friday
/ 5 June 2025

Structures of the forgotten: An installation of song, soil and spirit

A haunting meditation on land, memory and rain, Dinokana invites us to rebuild from what was lost

By Kibo Ngowi
Diary: The Black Circus of the Republic of Bantu, Rowlene’s Moments After and Altman’s take on Stevie Wonder
Friday
/ 5 June 2025

Diary: The Black Circus of the Republic of Bantu, Rowlene’s Moments After and Altman’s take on Stevie Wonder

Your essential dose of art and culture

By Lesego Chepape
‘Kivuli & Nuru’: Wild and wet in Africa
Friday
/ 4 June 2025

‘Kivuli & Nuru’: Wild and wet in Africa

Our deep shadows and sensualities are brought into the light by this bold sonic celebration of desire

By Lesego Chepape
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