Arts and culture

I am not my sexuality, say youth

Exhibition tells the stories of young gay and transgender people

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News | 16 June 2016

1976 exhibition recalls turbulent times

Exhibit also reflects on the sigificance of the uprising for the present day

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News | 15 June 2016

The musician who sings gay love songs in isiXhosa

Majola produces his first album

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News | 8 June 2016

Why we need more black writing

The challenge is to build a humanist tradition

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Opinion | 2 June 2016

Drumming is in my blood, says city businessman

Ghanaian Solomon Ajimah hosts free weekly sessions

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News | 29 April 2016

Motherwell brothers use art to stop illegal dump site

Rubbish dump paintings lead to fame for Port Elizabeth pair

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News | 28 April 2016

Artist finds inspiration in streets of Mitchells Plain

Anwar Davids designs poster for Open Streets festival

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News | 8 March 2016

New tv series tells story of woman boxer

Thirteen-episode drama is on Friday nights at 8:30pm

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News | 12 February 2016

Watch champion speedcuber Lonwabo Mvovo in action

Most people take hours, days or never to solve the Rubik's Cube. This is not the case for 15-year-old Lonwabo Mvovo who has recently been awarded the top spot in South Africa for completing the puzzle blindfolded in minutes.

Barbara Maregele

News | 17 December 2015

Inner city revamp to benefit street people

Trees are to be planted in the open space off Canterbury Street in the city centre as part of a project designed to improve the lives of street people and others using the area. The project includes a mural on the wall of the Fruit and Veg City store to which street people will contribute.

Bernard Chiguvare

News | 14 December 2015

Butterworth’s R9 million swimming pool is still empty after seven years

Seven years after building started, Butterworth’s R9 million swimming pool is still not finished.

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News | 9 December 2015

Sunday Times editor ‘was a spy’

One of the most successful agents of the apartheid state was the editor in chief of the country’s leading Sunday newspaper, the Sunday Times. This claim is contained in a book by veteran journalist John Matisonn to be released this week.

Terry Bell

News | 30 November 2015

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