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42 Years on: Dis-membering Sobukwe

42 years after his death under banishment, the legacy of Prof. Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe remains but a haunting shadow in South African historiography, dis-membered and left to the...

By Thandolwethu Sipuye

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Culture / 12/03/20

Black Thought Music - Koša Ke Nnete

To watch Koša Ke Nnete is to hear and experience committed music, under the influence of the church bell and child-like wailings. Under the influence of spoken word (poets and failed prophets). Under the influence of ama...

By Blk Thought Music

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The Sjava precedent

By Andile Mngxitama

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The Queens Fortress – Medicinal Poetry

On this week’s episode, we have a man who brings healing through both medicine and spoken word, Dr. Linda Masilela joined our madness in playing a game of “The Doctor vs. The Poet”...

By Yamoria

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Culture / 06/03/20

Ukuthandwa

Cuddling yabo Jesu! Uvukeliswa yi-warmth yakhe net ku-skin sakho. They even kiss you before touching your thigh, unlike lemigulukudu who touch your thigh first as a sign of wanting to go in between your legs. They always...

By Nomsa Bembe

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Melanin Cinematography

By Culture Correspondent

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Letters of Hope to Open Rapid Lion Film Festival

Set in 1976 South Africa, Letters of Hope tells the story of 16-year-old Jeremiah, who really wants to be a policeman and can’t understand why his father, the local postman, won’t...

By Culture Reporter

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Culture / 03/03/20

The Head & the Load Comes to Joburg Following World Premiere

“The Head & the Load is about Africa and Africans in the First World War, that is to say about all the contradictions and paradoxes of colonialism that were heated and compressed by circumstances of the war. It is about...

By Culture Correspondent