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The Portfolio: Khaya Ngwenya

Friday Khaya Ngwenya - 16 Sep 2020

Photojournalist Khaya Ngwenya’s style focus on exploiting natural light while staying in motion

The Portfolio: Lizzie ZiqubuM

Friday Baja La Dhlamini Sidzumo - 10 Sep 2020

Photographer Lizzie ZiqubuM’s Senior Citizens exhibition, on show at the KZNSA Gallery is a celebration and appreciation of the role of grandmothers

The Portfolio: Nanna Venter

Friday Nanna Venter - 20 Aug 2020

‘Artsronaut’ Nanna Venter lets us in on her process for designing book covers, including for Lauren Beukes’s ‘Afterland’

The Portfolio: Lebogang Tlhako

Friday Lebogang Tlhako - 16 Jul 2020

Photographer Lebogang Tlhako uses collage to explore making up something that isn’t there

The Portfolio: Manyaku Mashilo

Friday Manyaku Mashilo - 21 May 2020

"Black womxn professionals are at the bottom of this food chain. For me, my position has really helped me to take myself seriously in a world in which few people do."

"To build my ability to convey, I kept on living this life [of being a vessel] and trying to submit to it so that the messages would become clearer and I could get a deeper understanding of what they were."

Reading List: Dionne Searcey

Friday Dionne Searcey - 7 May 2020

The author and journalist shares a reading list from her time as The New York Times bureau chief for West Africa

The Portfolio: Rob Machiri

Article Rob Machiri - 14 Apr 2020

Machiri is a designer, artist, DJ and cultural producer. Here he reflects on the memory work that is just one facet of pungwes

The Portfolio: Slondile Jali

Article Slondile Jali - 19 Mar 2020

Visual artist Slondile Jali talks about how she came to terms with a new chapter in her relationship with her daughter through an illustration

The Portfolio: Gilli Apter

Article Gilli Apter - 28 Feb 2020

South African comedian, writer and director Gilli Apter speaks about how hilarious content requires constant writing and feedback from the comedy community

The Portfolio: Tsepo Gumbi

Article Kwanele Sosibo - 21 Feb 2020

With the Sharpeville massacre in mind, Kwanele Sosibo takes a look at how Tsepo Gumbi’s collection of photographs are a necessary intervention

The Portfolio: Bale Legoabe

Article Bale Legoabe - 7 Feb 2020

"Working on Occupying the Fatuous State of Severity, for me, goes back to how art creates dialogue, especially among several artworks in communication with each other."

The Portfolio: Stefan Naudé

Article Stefan Naudé - 31 Jan 2020

Print is not dead. It is just collectable now. Publications have become desirable to archive: collectable omnibuses documenting subgenres and their...

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Article Thabiso Sekgala - 17 Jan 2020

"The photographs in the series act as a symbol of, or a witness to, the economic imbalance that exists in contemporary South Africa, where people increasingly inhabit contrasting economic realities."

The Portfolio: Mxolisi Dolla Sapeta

Article Mxolisi Dolla & Sapeta - 10 Jan 2020

"My narratives are fragmented, characters and objects isolated and stripped down."

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Justice department hit by a costly cyberattack

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The theft of R10-million from the Guardian’s Fund account prompts the justice department to freeze all accounts until an audit can determine the extent of the damage

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Hawks arrest Free State ‘asbestos project’ players

Sabelo Skiti - 30 Sep 2020

Businessman Edwin Sodi and senior civil servants are among those arrested over the R200-million theft of state funds

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Eastern Cape MEC sues activist for defamation

anna majavu - 30 Sep 2020

“The province’s member of the executive council for transport Weziwe Tikana-Gxothiwe is suing a United Front activist for Facebook posts he made that she says paint her as corrupt.”

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UNISA hosts its first TEDx event

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special reports - 25 Sep 2020

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SingularityU Online Summit to contribute to SME growth in 2020

special reports - 23 Sep 2020

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Policy priorities lie with urgent economic reforms

special reports - 23 Sep 2020

Professor Raymond Parsons believes that business and consumer sentiment in South Africa would both benefit from even lower borrowing costs