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Opportunity: Nomaza Nongqunga Coupez, the founder of Undiscovered Canvas, welcomes Lulama Wolf (above right) to the Undiscovered Canvas Art Residency. (Mathieu Chatonnier/Undiscovered Canvas)
GIGGS KGOLE

Nomaza Nongqunga Coupez shines the artists’ light in France

A residency started by South Africans in the south of France supports Africa’s women artists

  • Palesa Segomotso Motsumi
4 min read
An image of a colour pastel drawing reproduced as a print that was hawked by Aisatic merchants in black townships.
ACTIVISM

The current infatuation with portraiture has colonial roots

However, contemporary artists such as Cinga Samson, Zanele Muholi and Mohau Modisakeng found a liberating ally in self-portraiture

  • Percy Mabandu
13 min read
Cow Mash’s Boleta le Bofefo, 2019-2020. (Polyester resin, faux leather, various synthetic fibres, found object, 97 x 135 x 315 cm)
A BLACK AESTHETIC A VIEW OF SOUTH AFRICAN ARTISTS 1970 1990

Black Luminosity foregrounded visibility as an act of refusal

The group exhibition at SMAC gallery, curated by Gcotyelwa Mashiqa, revisited the chromatic and social properties of blackness in contemporary South African visual art

  • Athi Mongezeleli Joja
9 min read
Makamo opened possibly the largest exhibition of his works to date at Botho Project Space in November last year. (Image courtesy of Botho Project Space)
ANNE REVERDY

Reward outweighs the risk for artists daring to go it alone

The success of galleries owned and run by the artists themselves has led to a re-examination of the business of art

  • Mary Corrigall
8 min read
R2K was outraged that the show was being cancelled before its second season could be aired.
GLYNNIS UNDERHILL

R2K, SOS write to SABC board over national key point ‘threat’

R2K and SOS have written to SABC board chair Zandile Tshabalala to ask her whether she invoked the National Key Points Act as a warning to staff.

  • Glynnis Underhill
4 min read
An SABC spokesperson confirmed that the national broadcaster’s chief financial officer
GUGU DUDA

CFO Duda has been summarily dismissed, says SABC

The national broadcaster has confirmed reports of the dismissal of Gugu Duda, who was suspended in 2012 in connection with financial irregularities.

  • Staff Reporter
2 min read
Appointing SABC chair Zandile Tshabalala as chief executive would have breached corporate governance rules.
GLYNNIS UNDERHILL

Carrim vetoes SABC board’s nomination

The communications minister has nipped in the bud a bid by the board to have Zandile Tshabalala take the top job at the troubled broadcaster.

  • Glynnis Underhill
3 min read