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Thandiswa Mazwai returns to the stage for an intimate, soul-stirring performance at The Lyric Theatre. (Photo supplied)

Diary: National Arts Festival, Thandiswa live at the Lyric, Sisonke Afrohouse

Festival returns with fresh fire and fearless talent For 11 days this winter, Makhanda becomes the beating heart of South African creativity and artistic innovation as the National Arts Festival lights up the Eastern Cape until 6 July.  A staple on the cultural calendar since 1974, the festival has long been a space for protest, […]

  • Busi Lethole
2 min read
Taking off: Alice Viskat’s Flughafen is playing in Scotland.

Diary: 2025 Edinburgh Fringe Festival, The Fête de la Musique returns to Victoria Yards and Thandiswa Mazwai brings Belede and Sankofa to The Lyric Theatre

Your essential dose of art and culture

  • Eyaaz
2 min read
Transporting voice: Thandiswa Mazwai performs at the 25th Standard Bank Joy of Jazz festival, which was held in Sandton, Joburg, in September. Photo: Oupa Bopape/Getty Images

Thandiswa Mazwai’s technologies of resistance

Bringing together the traditional and the modern, Thandiswa Mazwai is taking her new album Sankofa to the world

  • Eyaaz
9 min read
Thandiswa Mazwai. Photos by Nick Boulton and Charles Leonard

Thandiswa Mazwai on Sankofa and political currents in South Africa

Experience the soul-stirring melodies of Thandiswa Mazwai’s new album ‘Sankofa’, a captivating journey through South African music and culture

  • Des Erasmus
14 min read