Experience the vibrant atmosphere of the ComUnity Festival as Capetonians celebrate Reconciliation Day with top DJs and a lively market.
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.
The audience was young, hip and above-all diverse. Their following has surpassed colour.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Festival can be quite a daunting exercise owing to its scale.
Named after the spiny Eastern Cape tree with prominent glossy dark green foliage, the festival is now in its ninth year since inception.
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.
“This is your chair, hold on to it and take a seat,” he said, as he took the next guest's hand.
Imagine Shakespearean English, with a dash of Afrikaans and IsiXhosa.
There are murmurs of this opening ceremony being done to bring about calm, following the previous day’s emotionally charged proceedings.
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.
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.
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.
I have just left the Eastern Cape. For good. Again. But I insist that you do please visit the Eastern Cape.
As media outside Independent Media we must congratulate Piet Rampedi and his team for showing us that scoops still exist.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Audience members, including children, had to be evacuated after a magic act involving a crossbow went horribly wrong.
Imagine a 25-year-old enfant terrible. Still learning to walk. Still undergoing potty training, and generally way underdeveloped.
When you are hungry the last thing on your mind is something as vastly abstract as the land.
