Arts and culture

Land occupations displace initiation schools

“If they build their shacks on these sites, what will happen to their culture?”

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Brief | 31 July 2020

Covid-19: Only 488 of over 5,000 artists who applied for relief were paid

Thousands of people in the creative arts don’t expect venues to reopen until 2021

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News | 29 May 2020

Covid-19: Film makers say relief fund is too small and inaccessible for most

Important to push for local content, says studio boss

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News | 21 April 2020

Covid-19: “I’ve lost six months of my income” says musician

Government avails relief funds for performers out of pocket due to the lockdown

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News | 6 April 2020

Triumph for amateur cast at the opera house

Don’t Miss Your Turning Point received a standing ovation on Saturday night at Artscape

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Photo Essay | 17 February 2020

“From the streets, to Hanover Park, to Artscape”

There will be one performance only of the play Don’t Miss Your Turning Point at Artscape on Saturday

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News | 13 February 2020

Barrydale parade highlights climate change

Joyous occasion in beautiful Western Cape town was marked by a serious and frightening theme

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Photo Essay | 18 December 2019

Concern over unclean conditions at initiation schools

Forum launches initiation season in Nelson Mandela Bay claiming no deaths since 2016

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Brief | 21 November 2019

Initiation school mired in filth

Illegal dumping is compromising Xhosa traditional practice at a school in Govan Mbeki

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Brief | 7 November 2019

Art centre pressured to remove painting by murderer

Display of Zwelethu Mthethwa’s work raises debate about freedom of expression versus dignity of family of a murdered sex worker

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News | 7 October 2019

Artists accuse by-law of stifling cultural life in Cape Town

“Only those with significant financial resources are able to comply fairly easily with the bylaw process”

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News | 31 July 2019

Township youths build exquisite sculpture

It doesn’t make all the violence stop but it reminds people that there is beauty in the world, says volunteer

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Photo Essay | 12 July 2019

Facebook post sparks row over human remains in Green Point

Construction project halted

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News | 4 June 2019

Lubabalo Kondlo is the world draughts champion, but he is struggling to make ends meet

He is on a mission to popularise the game in South Africa

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Feature | 9 May 2019

Athlone arts hub shuts its doors

Closure follows collapse of Catholic Welfare and Development

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Brief | 24 April 2019