The idea behind Mahogany Room (with a capacity of 50 people) is to strike a balance between "artistic integrity and business sensibility."
Percy Zvomuya’s fear of the dark catches with up with him at a streetlamp in downtown Jo’burg.
A new novel captures the marginal status of migrants but their characters are not convincing, writes Percy Zvomuya
A recently opened venue on Thornton Avenue in Sophiatown is at once a film-screening centre, gallery and jazz venue.
2012 Standard Bank Young Artist of the Year, pianist Afrika Mkhize, will be one of the highlights at Grahamstown this year.
Zanele Muholi’s images of the lesbian, transgender and gay community have been chosen for a prestigious exhibition.
When the Goodman Gallery put up The Spear, South Africa was driven into warring camps. One of the voices that strained to be heard was Unathi Kondile.
Percy Zvomuya witnesses a remarkable but everyday incident on the streets of downtown Johannesburg.
It is red, yellow and blue — and set to add a splash of colour to Johannesburg’s performing arts scene.
If Imraan Coovadia’s work was a computer operating system, we would call it open source — it is so open in its imagination of another world.
In his inaugural Street Views column Percy Zvomuya offers a short and poignant portrait of a high-brow beggar.
The festival has come from Frankfurt via Mali and deals with Âmigration through a focus on movement
at its most basic level.
<i>Abnormal Loads</i> is set in that quintessentially tragic South African place in which the personal and the national intersect.
That a book about his life has just won a Pulitzer is surely proof that Malcolm X’s redemption in mainstream America is near complete.
<b>Percy Zvomuya</b> examines a book that comes to some surprising conclusions about the country’s so-called farm invasions.
After news of President Jacob Zuma’s intentions to take a fourth wife <b>Percy Zvomuya</b> went in search of what polygamy means in today’s society.
The collection of his last works is as much autobiographical as an expression of his views.
The city is bringing its core industry and Âhistory to the surface as a way of celebrating its significanceÂ.
Percy Zvomuya walked the streets of Johannesburg’s CBD to find God. He was there in full force, mostly just not where you would expect him.
Macky Sall’s victory in Senegal’s runoff elections has become a beacon of hope for Africa’s younger leaders, writes <b>Percy Zvomuya</b>.
<em>WHITENESS IN ZIMBABWE</em>: RACE, LANDSCAPE AND THE PROBLEM OF BELONGING by David McDermott Hughes (Palgrave Macmillan)
<strong>Percy Zvomuya</strong> takes a look at world football’s greatest derby rivalries and their origins.
A new film has explored why the famous Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) lÂeader Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe has almost Âdisappeared from memory.
Visiting Nigerian conceptual artist Olaniyi "Akirash" Akindiya is one of those people with the uncanny ability to bore his way into any scene.
A Burundian artist explores the relationship between refugees and their personal cargo.
South African teams are losing prestige as North African clubs show that they have what it takes, says <b>Percy Zvomuya</b>.
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A piece at this year’s Dance Umbrella interrogates the annual reed dance, in which young virgins are presented before King Goodwill Zwelithini.
Newly crowned Afcon champs’ date with destiny fulfiiled.
The complex world of South Africa’s favourite thinking diva.
An unblinking and voyeuristic portrayal celebrates the city as the site of multiple stories and identities.
Bob Marley’s 67th birthday provides an opportunity to reflect on reggae’s love affair with Africa.
The ANC has missed a perfect opportunity to revise its logo to Âreflect the recent past, its achievements and Âfuture aspirations.