Zakes Mda

The Time of the Writer Festival returns with a bold hybrid vision, using literature to challenge power, amplify voices and reconnect communities across borders

John Kani and Zakes Mda are leading masterclasses at the Iphulo Drama Festival, inspiring theatre, writing and directing talent across the Eastern Cape

South African artists keep dying poor while their work enriches others. The Copyright Amendment Bill could finally change that – if it ever becomes law

Renowned soprano Pumeza Matshikiza steps off the stage and into advocacy, using her art and influence to fight child abuse

The acclaimed multimedia artist Nakhane continues to explore the themes that have made them a rare talent across many creative fields

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A tour de force of 20 dancers from Gregory Maqoma’s Vuyani Dance Company, and 18 singers as fellow mourners, Cion unpacks the centuries of incessant mourning by black people

The Market Theatre’s latest incarnation of Zakes Mda’s play is found sorely wanting

Art, theatre and literature events to feed your soul this long weekend

Stevenson gallery staff took to Instagram to share a small selection of literature guiding their “respective journeys towards listening, learning and confronting bias”

The past explains the present but not the future because ‘that tiny chaos’ makes the future opaque

Mda’s latest novel paints a picture of how the West, then and now, refashions the other to validate its own preconceptions

The president and his fawning ministers are being interrogated about corruption. Sound familiar?

The trope of the anguished artist romanticises the acute mental suffering that afflicts some of those who find an escape in creativity

Every leader in this democratic dispensation understands that they are not above the organisations that nominated them, says the president’s adviser.