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In transition: Manyaku Mashilo’s Here I Saw My Ancestors First. Photos: Lea Crafford

Where ancestors walk

Manyaku Mashilo transforms memory and ancestry into expansive, layered canvases where spiritual landscapes, historical archives and women’s journeys converge

Felabration: Commemorative 76th birthday anniversary poster print
of Nigerian nationalist and Godfather of afrobeat, Fela Anikulapo Kuti.
Photo: Sindiso Nyoni

Drawing Change: How David Tshabalala and Sindiso Nyoni Turn Design into social power

From classrooms in Bloemfontein and Bulawayo to global exhibitions, David Tshabalala and Sindiso Nyoni turn creativity into social impact

Rebuild: South African photographer David Goldblatt’s exhibition Fragments of Fietas on at the Goodman
Gallery in Johannesburg honours the resilience of a community fractured and displaced by apartheid.

Fietas and the enduring question of home

David Goldblatt’s Fragments of Fietas captures more than loss — it reveals how memory, belonging, and faith survive even after home is erased

Take note: Photographer Vuyo Giba specialises in capturing jazz musicians in black and white. Photo: Supplied

Through the jazz lens: Vuyo Giba captures the spirit of South African sound

With her lens tuned to the heartbeat of South African jazz, Vuyo Giba transforms music into memory and sound into story

Jazz in focus: The Peffers Fine Art booth at the RMB Latitudes Art Fair in Cape Town

Jazz in focus: Capturing a sound in image

From rare Ernest Cole prints to iconic portraits of Makeba and Masekela, this show captures the musicians and the energy of live music itself

Generational wealth: An archive of 60 000 negatives in a Swedish bank was published posthumously by the
Ernest Cole Family Trust through Aperture in the book The True America in 2023. Photo: Ernest Cole

A legacy in focus: The long shadow of Ernest Cole

Ernest Cole’s lens captured apartheid’s truth and his legacy continues to shape creatives today

Omar Badsha And Dumile Feni At The Durban Art Gallery

Apartheid’s shadow, an artist’s light: Omar Badsha’s story

Omar Badsha’s journey from quiet observer to defiant artist in apartheid South Africa

A man prepares dead bodies to be carried by an ambulance to Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital morgue during a joint search and rescue operation to recover victims of the mudslide at Manje informal settlement on the slopes of Soche Hill in Blantyre, Malawi, on March 17, 2023, during Cyclone Freddy. (Amos Gumulira/AFP)

Photojournalism: The price of bearing witness

Photographers bring the plight of the voiceless into focus, helping them get aid — often at great personal cost