The Portfolio

Jabba’s Back To The City performance in 2016 was a late-career triumph for the visionary MC, but its promise would prove elusive

An extract from the biography ‘People Funny Boy’: how the maverick producer transformed the sound of reggae and its number-one group

By facilitating a community for thought, the Sekoto School hopes to ground various discourses to do with black life

The photographer uses the medium to connect with aspects of Zulu spiritual practices

The artist is associated with printmaking, but he wants us to remember that it all starts with a drawing

Popping up everywhere that radical pan-African content is on offer, the Black Ark comes equipped with a library of material, ranging from books to vinyls and posters

Thought to be politically symbolic, Andires Botha’s sculptures continue to be a contentious piece of pubic art

In their new book, photojournalists Alon Skuy and James Oatway situate their often harrowing images among contextual writing

For the artist, creating work helps her make sense of her feelings around complex and heated subjects

Deseni Soobben’s sensibilities have changed over the years, but she keeps revisiting the composition and design techniques she learned from her mentors

Drawn to collaboration, Wezile Mgibe seeks new ways of performing and presenting his work

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

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

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

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