Koleka Putuma

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…

This year’s National Arts Festival provided alternative light in a gloomy time

The online publication’s annual list celebrates not only the sheer abundance of African literature but its daring, new directions

Koleka Putuma’s triumphant adaptation allows audience to see stagecraft influence poetry

Artist Noncedo Gxekwa on the image Isambulo, part of the exhibition Lightworkers: The evidence of things unseen

The poet’s new book does the necessary work of reinscribing women into history, but is it poetry

The searing play No Easter Sunday For Queers tackles homophobic violence with a new langauge

Who is likely to ensure I am freer to express discontent while ensuring that I don’t prefer death because healthcare is unaffordable?

‘A Letter to Azania’ recalls our origin stories now that the promised utopia of Azania has been reduced to ashes.

The recognition garnered by young poets’ collections should make the publishing industry reflect on the state of South Africans’ poetic landscape

The Lists are compiled by Friday editor Milisuthando Bongela and arts writer Kwanele Sosibo

A poem by Koleka Putuma

A poem by Koleka Putuma

All eyes on the annual Fleur du Cap Awards celebrating the cream of Cape Town theatre, for the fiftieth year, on March 15.