Have you ever read a book so good you wished you could meet the author? Did you ever wonder what it would be like to meet them and what sorts of questions you would ask them?

When I was mugged, I was travelling from my Pretoria office and heading home to a shared apartment in the heart of the city. I shared the apartment with my friend Mzo, and I had just been placed in a graduate program with a large financial institution.

In Meadowlands Soweto, the Johannesburg Heritage Foundation unveiled a Blue Plague in honour of the founding President of the Pan-African Congress (PAC) Robert Sobukwe (1924-1978).

Despite being one of South Africa’s largest cities, Bloemfontein is not known. The people who control industries in the city want it that way. They keep it silent. A cemetery with streetlights. But art is the evidence of life. It pulses and noises.

Jägermeister Night Embassy Joburg is returning to reignite The Night. The mission? To further explore new directions in Nightlife and fulfill the promise of creating safe spaces for Nightlife communities by providing Freiraum AKA space to create.

It’s National Arts Festival time again, and it’s hard to ignore the irony that well established artists, musicians and actors are being forced to crowdfund to cover the cost of participating in the event while South Africa’s arts and culture minister tries to spend R22 million on a flag monument.

The eclectic wordsmith, Sabelo Soko, continues his exploration of language on his 3rd studio project, Spin Venek; a conceptual art piece that serves as a museum for memories and aspirations.

As its name suggests, taking a midnight train to Makhanda represents the exhilaration of leaving behind, albeit temporarily, the suffering and loss faced by many artists since the advent of the Covid pandemic, and the economic and social devastation this has brought with it.