Arts and culture
Meet Makhanda’s self-taught pencil artist
Lubabalo Kosi captured the hearts of people in his community after winning a local government tourism competition
Brief | 30 August 2022
“We have so many artists in Khayelitsha” — owner of township art centre hopes to expand
Nwabisa Nkonyana teaches art to children
Photo Essay | 7 June 2022
Video: How a disabled man has brought chess to one of Cape Town’s poorest schools
Sidwell Mayekiso hopes one of his students will one day become a Grandmaster
By Ashraf Hendricks and Liezl Human
Video | 18 March 2022
Meet Hendrick Chebanga, an artist who makes model cars
“I make anything with wheels or without wheels so long as they send me a photo”
Video | 16 March 2022
Blind DJ feels the music as he spins the decks
Raeez Kuhn aka DJ Eezo from Eldorado Park says his dream is to become a headlining DJ
News | 25 February 2022
Media executive linked to River Club developer
CEO of Cape Town media company has boardroom connections to developer’s interests
News | 30 November 2021
SA music industry exposed: the money is not going to the artists
One of many grim statistics: of R200 million in royalties collected by SAMPRA in 2020, R41 million went on “administrative costs”
By Niki Moore
Feature | 26 November 2021
Catastrophic decline in the South African music industry
Once seen as a vital growth point with huge export potential, our music industry is a tiny shadow of its former self, and Covid is not the main culprit
By Niki Moore
Feature | 24 November 2021
Salt River community celebrates shared heritage with the Palestinian cause
New murals a break from “cultural gentrification”
By James Stent
News | 27 September 2021