The city people try too hard. Want love but do not know what it is. How do you blame them? There is no love in the city. They want happiness but they forgot how to smile.

Azania as opposed to “South Africa” has recently mourned the transition of Don Mattera. On the other hand, the UK is currently mourning the death of Queen Elizabeth. Since the death of the latter, Indigenous peoples who are victims of settler colonialism such as those in Canada are calling for the Queen’s successor to renounce the Doctrine of Discovery.

Kweli returns to town for the biggest Hip Hop festival in Africa, Back to The City, but before the big night he'll curate a special set called Basement. This exhibition dives deep into his musical collection, displaying music from around the world.

His creative signature is unmistakable. He has fused symbols and geometry with Abstract Expressionism, an interstellar vision of God with a dervish-like mania that echoes the ghost of Jackson Pollock.

In an age fatigued by Reason, driven by hysterical conflict and division, the utter collapse of neo-liberal democracy, it is unsurprising that we find the resurgence of an oppressive and exclusionary identity politics – Us versus Them.

Beginning Sept. 15, members of the public are invited to an exhibition designed to support and amplify South African artists whose work pushes boundaries and provokes important conversations. Featured artists include Blessing Ngobeni, Patrick Bongoy, Luke Radloff, Nelisiwe Xaba & Mocke Jansen van Veuren, and Ayana V. Jackson.

Doing what is not locked in the fetish of “soulful stuff” which is the domain and constriction that female DJs are wrongly mostly confined to, Buhle defines her sound in a way that its liberatory impulse translates into the workshopping of the soul.

The year is 1990. President F.W. de Klerk announces the beginning of the end of apartheid, the release of Nelson Mandela and other political prisoners, and the end of the South African state of emergency. The African National Congress's armed wing, Umkhonto we Sizwe, suspends its armed actions after 29 years. Charles J. Fourie premiers his play The Parrot Woman, at the Market Theatre, Johannesburg.