In a quiet moment on an otherwise ordinary afternoon, Modise Sekgothe found out he had been selected as only the second poet to win the Standard Bank Young Artist Award for Poetry in its 40-year history. “I was in the house writing,” he tells me when we speak at an event introducing this year’s winners […]
This year’s National Arts Festival provided alternative light in a gloomy time
The online publication’s annual list celebrates not only the sheer abundance of African literature but its daring, new directions
Koleka Putuma’s triumphant adaptation allows audience to see stagecraft influence poetry
Artist Noncedo Gxekwa on the image Isambulo, part of the exhibition Lightworkers: The evidence of things unseen
The poet’s new book does the necessary work of reinscribing women into history, but is it poetry
The searing play No Easter Sunday For Queers tackles homophobic violence with a new langauge
Who is likely to ensure I am freer to express discontent while ensuring that I don’t prefer death because healthcare is unaffordable?
‘A Letter to Azania’ recalls our origin stories now that the promised utopia of Azania has been reduced to ashes.
The recognition garnered by young poets’ collections should make the publishing industry reflect on the state of South Africans’ poetic landscape
The Lists are compiled by Friday editor Milisuthando Bongela and arts writer Kwanele Sosibo
All eyes on the annual Fleur du Cap Awards celebrating the cream of Cape Town theatre, for the fiftieth year, on March 15.