Friday Mental Health Edition
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Investec Cape Town Art Fair names its 2026 award winners
The Investec Cape Town Art Fair announces its 2026 prize winners, spotlighting artists whose practices are reshaping contemporary conversations around material, image and digital…
On the days when I’d rather stay in bed
The ‘nagging little monsters’ of anxiety taunt us as we journey on the pursuit of endless #goals
Staying sane in a trying industry
Diliza Moabi is passionate about TV and has spent the greater part of his life making his dreams come true
A mind map of the soul
A problematic yet evocative term, madness has been commandeered by legions of artists who are searching for meaning and, often, for God.
My mother raised a brick house
"Like the space between bricks, cement fills the connections between my hips and feet".
Words can banish our ghosts
"I wanted to show it all to her, so she could fix me. I needed her to fix me".
A family’s unspoken curse
The inherited shame of schizophrenia leaves the writer wondering whether he will be next
Us in the house of mirrors
An illness plagues the women here — drawing them together, then apart, then together again
We cannot continue to suffer in silence
"Who knew that I might share a similar condition with the person I was taught to shame?"