Artistic life is abundant and rich in the outskirts of towns and cities, yet there’s little support to nurture, develop and grow it. These forgotten villages, townships and informal settlements are known to produce the best artists and writers, but often these artists are not well supported outside the urban and cosmopolitan spaces where art life is valued
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In its Quarterly Labour Force Survey for Quarter 4, 2025, released early this month, Statistics SA noted that there were approximately 10.3 million young people aged 15–24 years who were not in employment, education, or training during that quarter.
This week marked eight years since the passing of Hugh Masekela – a towering figure in Jazz music and a global symbol of artistic resistance.…
The photographic exhibition I’ll Be Your Mirror is historically and conceptually important, yet it has not received much attention in mainstream South African conversations. Its…
“Look at me, you see these clothes I have on? This is all I’m left with. This is all I could save,” Matimba Desmond Mkansi…
Weeks of relentless rain have pushed Limpopo into one of its worst flood crises inyears, forcing government to declare the situation a national disaster as…
As the flood waters rose rapidly higher in their house in a rural Limpopo village -adistressed family sought refuge in the roof cavity of their…
Before dawn on Christmas Day, the silence of Nokaneng village is broken by rhythmic drumbeats and layered voices rising into the summer air. By 05h30,…
In the aftermath of Maseru, a massacre that claimed 42 lives (including two children), Maroo’s “blood-stained suit was vivid in telling his near-death story that he neither had a chance or a heart to tell”, noted Lebo, who went to exile with her father in 1978, never to meet again. To mitigate, ANC’s top brass redeployed its operatives to Lusaka.
Pillars of Fairtrade – wages and employment conditions – remain marked by profound inequalities.