Black Coffee and Sun-El musician surprise revellers on Reconciliation Day
Experience the vibrant atmosphere of the ComUnity Festival as Capetonians celebrate Reconciliation Day with top DJs and a lively market.
Kujenga steady progression from Milnerton to Jazz fest to the Samas
They will be performing alongside Thandiswa Mazwai and the Kopano Jazz Collective in and amongst a hive of engaging programmes that include art walkabouts, studio visits, food, wine and fashion.
ComUnity: Our Heritage is Groove
The audience was young, hip and above-all diverse. Their following has surpassed colour.
Journalism: A static profession in an evolved world
Anyone running a media company or a newsroom today should treat each and every aspect of what they produce and their journalists' time as commodities.
Joburg art fair: Stand-outs and oddities
Johannes Phokela really is South Africa’s modern-day renaissance painter, his latest Seven Virtues paintings, presented by Eclectica Contemporary gallery really did stand out. Classic.
Cape Town art galleries light up Joburg Art Fair stage
Africa’s longest running art fair opens up the city of Johannesburg with art, music, performances, food and fashion for 16 full days before and after the actual art fair week.
Mazwai’s on-stage fellowship mesmerises
It becomes a spiritual fellowship session that works well for Thandiswa, who admits to being extremely nervous every time she has to come on to a stage.
50 years on, future remains bright for National Arts Festival
Festival can be quite a daunting exercise owing to its scale.
Eastern Cape's Umtiza Arts Festival’ growing beautifully progressively
Named after the spiny Eastern Cape tree with prominent glossy dark green foliage, the festival is now in its ninth year since inception.
Cheers as Simondium microbrewery scoops Best Beer in Africa
In the heart of the Cape Winelands, a stone’s throw away from Franschhoek, lies a brewery built within the old tank walls of the former Drakenstein Co-operative Winery.
Dinner With a difference raises blind awareness in the dark
“This is your chair, hold on to it and take a seat,” he said, as he took the next guest's hand.
Othello finds African resonance in 2024
Imagine Shakespearean English, with a dash of Afrikaans and IsiXhosa.
How did Khoisan become so forgotten?
There are murmurs of this opening ceremony being done to bring about calm, following the previous day’s emotionally charged proceedings.
Investec Cape Town Art Fair shines
There was an underlying theme of inclusion, empathy and cultural signifiers – a welcome move away from the snootiness and elitism often associated with the art scene.
‘What is yours is mined’ on the heels of the Mining Indaba
At the same time there is a mining art exhibition in the far-flung hills of Durbanville, titled What is Yours is Mined, by painter Jeannette Unite, at the Rust-en-Vrede and Clay Museum.
Lalah Hathaway blows fans away at Kirstenbosch
There I was ensconced at the recently-manured Kirstenbosch National Botanical Gardens, eagerly waiting to see Donny Hathaway's 55-year-old daughter on stage.
Visit the Eastern Cape
I have just left the Eastern Cape. For good. Again. But I insist that you do please visit the Eastern Cape.
Pregnant with news? Print first, digital can be induced later
As media outside Independent Media we must congratulate Piet Rampedi and his team for showing us that scoops still exist.
23 March 2020: the day SA journalism died
It came as no surprise, the symptoms were there: from shortness of Covid-19 in depth analysis to government making it clear that all Covid-19 cases would be confirmed by a single source.
A narrative of rape, power, politics et al
Nomawele Njongo's book details how she was fired from the ANC after accusing then-ANC chief whip Mbulelo Goniwe of sexual assault in 2006 and how she has subsequently been unable to earn a living.
Reconciliation Day: Reconciling with the unrepentant
We live in a country where only one race is required to forgive. The strangest part of this forgiveness is that there is an expectation to forgive people who have never asked to be forgiven.
‘Paper Tiger’ lacks teeth as only details editors’ bitterness and anguish
The book's point of departure is that of an aggrieved senior former employee still trying to reconcile with the reality that she is not indispensable.
Horror at #NationalArtsFestival as magic stunt goes wrong
Audience members, including children, had to be evacuated after a magic act involving a crossbow went horribly wrong.
I do not know who to vote for!
Imagine a 25-year-old enfant terrible. Still learning to walk. Still undergoing potty training, and generally way underdeveloped.
The poor cannot eat land
When you are hungry the last thing on your mind is something as vastly abstract as the land.