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Greatest AfricansAfricaJoburgSouth AfricaGreatest AfricansMonth after month Soweto theatre and Poetic Thursdays showcase poets and performers from all over the country, with varying degrees in experience and expertise. This platform serves as both a bucket list for most established performers in South Africa and equally as a stepping stone for the future greats and gems of South Africa. For S...
On the 13th of April 2019, The Liberty Radio awards gala event was hosted at the Sandton Convention Centre. This was a night inspired by South Africa’s very best in radio, from legends to rising stars. The hosts, internationally renowned poet Lebo Mashile and Eastern Cape-born comedian Loyiso Madinga, made for the perfect night filled ...
Singers use artistic conventions to construct marketable music personas. But that’s not the full picture. In the US, for example, most American hip-hop and rap songs are also a reflection of the artistes’ living experiences and social communities. These mainly involve gang violence, street hustling and thug life. The late rapper, Notor...
Pimville is one of the oldest townships in Soweto. But its formation was hardly an innocent one. It was part of the grand machinations of apartheid, part of a chain of black concentration camps for darkies working in the city. To this day, the township, like many others in Soweto, follows its apartheid architectural and social engineer...
Jazz has a long and rich tradition in South Africa, having produced some of the best artisans in the world. The new millennium would see jazz music suffer an apparent steady decline, but over the last several years we have seen it levitate up into public consciousness through the emergence of gifted young jazz musicians such as Thandi ...
Pic Me Up Poetry is a fast-growing art movement which hosts its base sessions in Melville at Spilt Milk. Founded by Webster Chabangu and Sketch along with other poets, they have grown exponentially in the last two years, has now expanded...
On Sunday the 7th April 2019, I attended the first ever beauty festival in SA. The beauty revolution festival was a day packed with all things beauty with the intent to change the beauty narrative. The Beauty Revolution is about celebrat...