by Dev Ops | Sep 4, 2020 | Arts & Entertainment 2020
Sinethemba Twalo is an artist and curator who is completing a PhD in art history at the University of Johannesburg. In 2014 Twalo was the artist in residency fellow at the Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart, Germany also a graduate of the Master of Public Spheres...
by Dev Ops | Sep 4, 2020 | Arts & Entertainment 2020
When it comes to describing the effect of her work, only Lesedi Mafura herself can quite do it justice: “I want my work to liberate, to set a platform where we tell our African stories without fear of being cast aside or swallowed. I want to see it serving as a badge...
by Dev Ops | Sep 4, 2020 | Arts & Entertainment 2020
Mutinta Simelane knows what it’s like to share a stage with greatness. After all, she performed poetry at the Global Citizen Festival in 2018 — an event where some of the most recognisable faces of the entertainment industry arrived on our shores. Symbolically, this...
by Dev Ops | Sep 4, 2020 | Arts & Entertainment 2020
Writer Phumlani Pikoli has ambitions that go beyond being the author of a couple of popular books. He’s shaping himself as a multi-disciplinary artist by working with theatre makers too. Right now he’s best known for his book of short stories, The Fatuous State of...
by Dev Ops | Sep 4, 2020 | Arts & Entertainment 2020
Rising star Ami Faku has a rich, soulful voice that beguilingly draws you in, even if you don’t understand the words. Faku comes from Port Elizabeth and often sings in isiXhosa, but loves to explain the stories behind her music. For her song Inde Lendlela (I’ve come a...
