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Lehlohonolo Shale

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Lehlohonolo Shale

Lehlohonolo Shale is a freelance journalist having contributed to different publications since the late 90s. A keen poet published by Botsotso, he he holds a MA in Creative Writing from the University of Cape Town.

Book tickets: Greg Homann has taken up the position of artistic director at Johannesburg’s Market Theatre. Photo: Kate Green

He has cornered the Market

A playful take on the sport of theatre by the theatre’s new artistic director, Greg Homann

Wordsmiths: Translated into English by fellow poet Karen Press (below), Antjie Krog’s collection Plunder explores themes of family, body and land through pillaging. Photos: Brenda Veldtman

Poems from plunder to pillage

Antjie Krog’s latest collection of poems, which were written in Afrikaans, has been translated by another poet, Karen Press

Cover of It’s a continent book. Photo: Joseph Osayande

One Book, Two Takes: It’s a Continent

Astrid Madimba and Chinny Ukata’s impressive African history book by non-historians

Point of view: Graham Hopkins and Lihle Ngubo struggle with each other in The Lesson. Photo: Suzy Bernstein

New play demonstrates power of words – said and unsaid

The tables are starting to turn in The Market Theatre’s ‘The Lesson’, a play about toxic power relations in society

This sequel tells the story of author Sara-Jayne Makwala King’s troubled relationships in South Africa. Picture: Supplied

One Book, Two Takes: Mad Bad Love

Sara-Jayne Makwala King, the bestselling author of Killing Karoline, is back with an interesting sequel

Taking no prisoners: Hlengiwe Lushaba Madlala and Vaughan Lucas Callaway in a heated moment in Ruined. Image:  Lungelo Mbulwana

War talk is not cheap, the play ‘Ruined’ shows

Plot shows how women characters refuse to be victims in a conflict situation

Photographing past and present newsmakers

As I enter the exhibition titled Names in Uphill Letters — A historiography of the newsmakers who tread(ed) South Africa’s soil, at the Workers Museum in Newtown, I encounter a…

Celebrations: The Brother Moves On (above) and the Windybrow’s choir will be performing at the Africa Month festival. (Tseliso Monaheng)

Africa, is your time now?

The Windybrow Arts Centre in Joburg has a variety of performances for Africa Month

Photo 1: Next Move: Fana Tshabalala in a moment of reflection. Photo: Suzy Bernstein

Time to reflect in a time of isolation

Theatre goers can finally celebrate things going back to whatever this new normal is

The Red On the Rainbow starring Tshireletso Nkoane and Dambuza Nqumashe (Photographer Ihsaan Haffejee)

Monageng ‘Vice’ Motshabi’s book and play question the real new South Africa

The The Red on the Rainbow is a story many South Africans can relate to as it asks the hard questions of where the rainbow is

Trevor Ngwane looks into how committees in informal settlements are updating the system for their survival

Book review: ‘Amakomiti’ tackles the role of self-governance

Can anything good come out emjondolo? Trevor Ngwane looks into how committees in informal settlements are updating the system for their survival

Uncompromising: Zeph Mothopeng was the president of the PAC from 1986 until his death in 1990. (Photo: Patrick Durand/Sygma via Getty Images

Zeph Mothopeng: A life hard to embody as flesh and blood

Even in death, the legacy of the Lion of Azania – an uncompromising firebrand – remains contested within the Africanist movement

Uhuru Phalafala, Radna Fabias, Ishion Hutchinson and Toni Stuart in an Open Book Fesival panel in 2019. This year, the festival has moved online. (Photo: Retha Ferguson)

Cape Town’s Open Book Festival turns over a new leaf

In the midst of the pandemic the literary festival is hosting podcasts instead of livestreamed panels

Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe: New Reflections, edited by Benjamin Pogrund (Jonathan Ball)

New ways of seeing Sobukwe

This collection of essays by people touched by the PAC leader opens a debate on his influence