National Arts Festival

Sophie Joans and Mxolisi Masilela, both recipients of the Mail & Guardian's Top 200 Young South Africans recognition, are theatre-makers who built their own spaces in the…

Internationally celebrated dancer Mamela Nyamza returns home with two powerful productions interrogating identity, colonial legacies and belonging through bold, deconstructed…

Fresh off his Standard Bank Young Artist win, Manana reflects on growth, collaboration and creating space for alternative sound in South Africa

A sober look at how South African art is recalibrating for the long term — smaller, slower and more precarious, yet still thinking its way forward

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

The playwright sees beyond the script, conjuring ghosts of land, legacy and loss in ‘Breakfast with Mugabe’

A tender meditation on care, memory and materiality, this artist’s work invites us to slow down and feel the soul

Photographer’s images are a soulful visual tribute to South African jazz

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

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

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…

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…

Muneyi, a poetic voice from Limpopo, blends folk and tradition into something urgent, modern and, finally, something celebrated

Behind every work on a gallery wall is someone like the unsung art installer