Friends, creatives and a city in mourning gathered to celebrate the woman who helped shape how Johannesburg saw itself after 1994.
A powerful and emotionally layered theatrical work revisits the 1976 Soweto Uprising through testimony, memory, contradiction and unresolved generational grief
South Africa’s most beloved troubadour on new music, staying rooted in Mamelodi and why peace is worth singing about
Maria McCloy helped define post-apartheid urban culture through fashion, media, music and an uncompromising commitment to South Africa’s creative spirit
A groundbreaking analysis of more than 2 300 seawater samples shows that industrial chemicals dominate ocean pollution signals, even far from land
Lack of funds prevent provinces from carrying out their mandate to manage public library services
Research shows that classroom libraries increase reading frequency by 70% compared with centralised libraries
His fair skin did not bring him any benefits during apartheid. He was regarded as too white by black people and too black by white people
Without biocontrol, Hartbeespoort Dam could be 70% covered in superweed
It flashed across the sky – at 72 000km an hour – and sounded like 92 tonnes of TNT exploding
National Arts Festival continues to create platforms for creatives, 50 years later
Rhodes University and civic organisations partnered up – and radically boosted results
Online news articles in September were dominated by references to courts – cadre deployment, contempt, Busisiwe Mkhwebane, Eskom, corruption, Makhanda high court
A walk through the city centre and two suburbs was an exercise in mindfulness and learning how to be home again
The pods make a delicious coffee and the cattle like them too, but the tree sucks up groundwater and destroys biodiversity
