I went to the Gauteng Music Academy to look at Malcolm’s artwork. Bra Johnny was there to welcome me, and when he opened the library, there were paintings everywhere. “The world is yet to know about him”, observed Bra Johnny.

Since August 2020, DRUM magazine, perhaps owing to the COVID-19 pandemic and the forthcoming demands of the fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR), transitioned to become South Africa’s weekly fully digital magazine.

Anarchism is a challenge to us all, to change the ways in which we live. To abandon the desire to give more money to banks and capitalists, and instead to build up our communities. We are not owners of property.

The artistic world while full of exceptional individuals thrives when community comes into play. This installment of articles from our collaborator the Culture Review explores this notion and just how important it is to have support and community within artistic ecosystems to ensure sustainability.

Part of the problem with Shaka Zulu: The Gaping Would is that it relies on the same historical record it promises to upend. Numerous scenes in the show suggest that E.A. Ritter’s book, Shaka Zulu, may have influenced its writing.

On the 17th anniversary of Brenda Fassie’s passing, Johannesburg gets to experience the theatre adaptation of Koleka Putuma’s Hullo Bu-Bye Koko Come in.

Blackness as a state of being exists relatively on the periphery. It is a form that is almost always expected to relent and equivocate even when its comforts are disrupted.

“In order for a people to know where they are going, they must know where they come from” opens Mapungubwe: Echoes in the Valley.