Arts and culture
Meet the Senegalese man who teaches South Africans how to make and sell crafts
Seeing how many unemployed young people there are in Imizamo Yethu informal settlement, Moustapha Fall, originally from Senegal, decided to teach them craft skills.
Bernard Chiguvare
News | 23 November 2015
The Cool Kids of Khayelitsha
Playlisted on many radio stations across the country and igniting stages in Cape Town, the Cool Kids are a Khayelitsha-based four-man crew combining DJ skills, music producing and event management. What is more, they have done it their own way.
Zethu Gqola
News | 10 November 2015
Khayelitsha teenagers start radio show
Learners from the Centre for Science and Technology (COSAT), Khayelitsha, aired their first high school radio show last week. And they’re not shying away from difficult topics. The group, known as the Optimistic Youth Reporters (OYR), debated teenage pregnancy in a twenty minute live broadcast for staff and their fellow students in the school hall.
Pasqua Heard
News | 27 October 2015
A day in the life of a hairdresser
Loud reggae, pop and kwaito are some of the genres of music that compete with each other as you wander through the market at Cape Town central station taxi rank. Customers bustle through the rows of white container stalls, selling cheap snacks, fashionable clothing, haircuts and more. Among the many women entrepreneurs offering beauty services in the market is Odette Motema. She runs a hair and nail salon.
Text by Pasqua HeardPhotos by Juliette Garms
News | 13 October 2015
Behind the scenes and in the spotlight at the Khayelitsha Fashion Show
Fashions by local designers were on display at the Khayelitsha Fashion Show, Chillers Place, Madayi Crescent, Khayelitsha.
Photos by Masixole Feni.
News | 8 October 2015
Taking theatre out of the box and into the backyard
Mhlanguli George, a young Nyanga-based theatre producer and director, has created Theatre in the Backyard, which aims to offer a very different theatre experience from the mainstream.
Christopher Clark
News | 6 October 2015
Art in a Khayelitsha fruit & veg shack
Mpho Mathebula rents a small space in a fruit and vegetable shop in Khayelitsha to sell his paintings and beadwork.
Pharie Sefali
News | 25 September 2015
Teaching drama in Ndevana
Mbulelo Nkwali and Zolani Seyisi had one idea when they founded Suppermix in 2008 in King William’s Town’s Ndevana settlement: to take young people off the streets. Today the film and drama company performs at weddings, church events, and the Buffalo City carnival.
Siphesihle Matyila
News | 25 September 2015
‘One day, people will watch me dance’
“When I finish school, I want to be in a ballet skirt and do ballet for a big crowd,” says six-year-old Anathi Dakuse from Imizamo Yethu.
Tariro Washinyira
News | 23 September 2015