The Basha Uhuru Creative Uprising

Culture Reporter Culture 2020-11-19 17:30:54

From the 16 - 21 November The Basha Uhuru Creative Uprising will take place at Constitution Hill. The festival will bring creatives together in an event aimed to develop and elevate creative talent within a variety of art forms including music, film, art, design, dance, theatre and poetry.

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Igama? Special Screening

Culture Reporter Culture 2020-11-17 09:22:05

The Bioscope and Mabu Art Foundation is proud to host a special screening of the play 'Igama?' that was performed as part of this year's Grahamstown National Arts Festival. As you might remember, this year's festival was done virtually, with the plays being filmed for audiences to watch at home. So this is a special screening of the play's filmed format.

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Joburg Film Festival 2020

Television Reporter Culture 2020-11-17 06:01:36

Having to adapt to the new norm, the organizers of the annual Joburg Film Festival together with partners NFVF and GFC today announced that the 2020 edition of the festival will be staged as a two-day event later this month in the city of gold.

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Peeling Shadows

Lehlohonolo Peega Culture 2020-11-11 04:06:39

You are faced with a tough decision; you get to play God for a short while. Before you is a decision that will affect your childhood and inevitably your whole life.

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Trump & Biden – Two Sides of The Same White Supremacist Coin

Veli Mbele Culture 2020-11-06 05:35:47

AmeriKKKa controls the destinies of many 'sovereign' states across the world. This is palpable in, among others, the hegemonic position of the US dollar over the currencies. Have you ever wondered why the US dollar is the dominant currency, globally?

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There's A Tik-Kop On My Stoep

Vuyolwethu Reoagile Culture 2020-11-06 04:02:21

Democracy in 1994 came with renewed hope for the next generation. Millennial Black children began attending better schools than those their parents had been offered through Bantu education. As time will always tell, each generation has its vices. Every other family was gripped by alcoholism in the 1990s and early 2000s, and the 2000s and 2010s ushered in a narcotic subculture largely influenced by the nightlife in PE central

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Black Celebrities Part of the Capitalism & Anti-Blackness Project

Veli Mbele Culture 2020-11-05 10:06:25

Capitalism/anti-black racism use 'Black celebrities' (especially in the entertainment industry), to promote false notions of Black progress, success or excellence, and to ensure Black young people remain politically unconscious, by promoting a life style that is fuelled by the insatiable urge to accumulate as much bling as possible (not accumulate knowledge of self).

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Black Lawyers & Juju’s Political Malnourishment

Nelvis Qekema Culture 2020-11-03 03:42:04

“WE WERE losing cases with Black lawyers failing to submit a simple thing as one page. And then we must use the same services [and] lose cases so that we can be projected as the most disorganised organisation with no direction? To hell with all of you." Who said these words? Kaizer Matanzima? No. Lucas Mangope? No. Dr Mangosuthu Buthelezi? No. Mmusi Maimane? No.

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