Through its KinFolk theme, the Folklore Festival returns to the work of connection, bridging generations, regions and disciplines to reimagine how South Africa remembers, archives and sustains its cultural voice
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Many commit to reading books every year and are not sure where to start. Here are three books poet Ndumiso Zondi suggest
United by poems, plays and passion, artists tackle corruption head-on at a Joburg performance
Southern Africa’s top speaker, Vus’umuzi Phakathi, unpacks the architecture of a powerful speech, mental illness, transformation and becoming visible in white spaces in an interview with Dshamilja Roshani
From eSwatini to Johannesburg, poets are finding new voices through travel, collaboration and the transformative power of cultural exchange
In a quiet moment on an otherwise ordinary afternoon, Modise Sekgothe found out he had been selected as only the second poet to win the Standard Bank Young Artist Award for Poetry in its 40-year history. “I was in the house writing,” he tells me when we speak at an event introducing this year’s winners […]
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Series explores masculinity and healing through raw, powerful performances
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Louise Westerhout speaks about her challenging art and — the art of dying without fear
American play Dreamscape finds parallels in South Africa
South Africa’s largest funeral company, Avbob’s eighth poetry competition is being adjudicated by a panel of esteemed literary experts, with 11 winners in each of the country’s languages being announced at a gala dinner in September
If we read closely, spoken word still holds the realities of the past even though it is written in the present
The South African author Fiona Snyckers muses about what makes writers and poets tick
