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While blackness, as an imposed reality, that creates a certain field around the subject, has come to be acknowledged as such, little has been done to problematise intersubjective relations between black people.
Poet Makhafula Vilakazi is tired of living in the shadow of Shakespearean poetry. Born Matodzi Ramashia in Chiawelo, Soweto, Makhafula has created a brand of poetry that sees him delivering his rap inspired lyrics in township slang.”
Nomaza was the kind of woman every wife on the street resented. Her honey skin reminded other women that their dark skin would never make men stop mid-sentence when they passed.
As a matter of fact, it was Khaya’s political activity that landed Biko in trouble when the two were arrested at school and detained. I recall how Bra Bisto, as Khaya was known, related to us as AZASCO members in 1995 how happy he was when Biko was arrested. This was because Biko was indifferent to political activity until that arrest.
In the fiery sky / An evening becomes / Of what if not stars and a healing moon / And a stillness that feels like the earth taking a deep breath / I look to the stars floating above the burning horizon
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 Doesn’t Have to Be This Way is a relevant, insightful and timely debut novel prompting mankind to return to nature to make us whole again. As simple as it may sound, it is truly up to us to define how this world could be for future generations to come.
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.
