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Women of the struggle: Artist Sue Williamson with works from her series of photo portraits from the ongoing series All Our Mothers. Photo: Courtesy the artist and Goodman Gallery
ACTIVISM

The long and short of a 50-year artistic career

Sue Williamson’s new show opens in Joburg and a retrospective is coming soon

  • Charles Leonard
11 min read
Thule Mavuso during her fifth birthday celebration. The Mavuso family always made sure to celebrate birthdays with cake and goodies. (Photo: Cynthia Mavuso)
16 JUNE 1976

The Portfolio: ‘How photographer Bongani Mnguni saw his death coming’

Lucia Mnguni remembers her husband Bongani Mnguni, who photographed some of South Africa’s most turbulent events

  • Lucia Mnguni
4 min read
Sabelo Mlangeni with his siblings and neighbours in a field in the 1980s. (Photo: Cynthia Mavuso)
ARCHIVING

Forgotten spools: Looking through the archive of Cynthia Mavuso

Cynthia Mavuso’s practice was fiercely communal and driven by mentorship. In this edited discussion transcript, Salebo Mlangeni and Thule Mavuso remember ‘CS’ through her photos

  • Sabelo Mlangeni
  • Thule Mavuso
11 min read
Mme MaMotaung at Chicken farm informal settlement in 1985. (Santu Mofokeng Foundation)
AN AESTHETIC OF BLACKNESS STRANGE AND OPPOSITIONAL
Video

An ‘aesthetic inheritance’: ugogo the [visual] griot

Refiguring ugogo as a critical figure in the making of Black [visual] archives

  • Kholeka Shange
9 min read
To date, Matsuli Music has resurrected sixteen important recordings for a new and growing audience of vinyl collectors.
ARCHIVING

The Portfolio: Matsuli Music

Independent record label Matsuli Music is passionate about finding and re-issuing South Africa’s historilcal music moments on vinyl

  • Matt Temple
  • Chris Albertyn
2 min read