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Youlendree Appasamy is a freelance writer and journalist based in Johannesburg, South Africa.

Kelebogile Masilo, Lost in a maze. (Lithograph)

Artist Proof Studio: Rethinking what a future South Africa could look like

The Artist Proof Studio’s FNB Art Joburg Open City pop-up event takes place this weekend at Radisson Red in Rosebank

Raí Gandra,  RILF: Revolutionaries I’d Like to Fuck. (iwalewabooks)

New ways of dreaming with iwalewabooks

iwalewabooks offers artists, cultural workers and academics a roving space to explore aesthetic and intellectually rigorous modes of publishing

A 19th-century image of an indentured labourer’s dance troupe in Natal. (Image courtesy of Campbell Collections, Killie Campbell Africana Library, UKZN)

‘The Making of Mount Edgecombe’: A view of history from below

Indian indentured labourers’ lives are celebrated in a new book, Sugar Mill Barracks: The Making of Mount Edgecombe

Members of the Sobukwe family and  VUT academic staff discuss how VUT’s public affiliation with Mama Sobukwe will do much  to help address the erasure of PAC heroes and heroines in the national discourse about the struggle. (Photos: Musa Rapuleng)

Mother of Azania carried love in her heart

Were she alive, she would have shared the award with everybody

An honourary degree is conferred to Mama Zondeni Veronica Sobukwe for her role in the struggle, which is accepted by members of the Sobukwe family.  (Photos: Musa Rapuleng)

Mama Sobukwe’s legacy lives on

‘She is the embodiment of humanity; evidently, as a nurse, but above all, as a mother of Azania’

Friends of Mama Sobukwe celebrate with her upon her release from detention

Veronica Sobukwe’s guiding ethos

Robert Sobukwe’s wife was an activist, and she looked after the children while he was incarcerated

‘The Poet’ by Nathaniel Mokgosi is being showcased at ‘A Black Aesthetic: A View of South African artists (1970-1990)’. During a walkabout Dr Same Mdluli noted that the preservation and maintenance of artworks is an overlooked field.

South African art yearns for caring conservators

“We live in a culturally rich space, yet most of the time our preservation of it is poor.”

Isaac Boshomane receive a prize from Minister of Higher Education Naledi Pandor

National Skills Authority Awards 2019

The awards honour those who are equipping young South Africans with vital skills

Executive officer of the National Skills Authority Thabo Mashongoane, Minister in the Presidency for Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma and Minister of Higher Education and Training Naledi Pandor at the NSA conference.

Rethinking demand-led skills development in the Fourth Industrial Revolution

South Africa is on track to meet the NDP goal in terms of doctoral graduates

Minister of Education Naledi Pandor, NSA Chairperson Ms Lulama Nare and Minister in the Presidency for Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma share a lighter moment at the NSA conference

NSA conference strengthens ties in the skills development landscape

‘We need to create clear linkages between education, teaching and the world of work’

Executive officer of the National Skills Authority Thabo Mashongoane believes in upskilling and co-operation

A humble helping hand in the NSA

‘Ultimately, we’re stronger when we have one common vision’

‘Honourable Ravaan’ from Kiveshan Thumbiran’s Kaliyu-topia exhibition sees Thumbiran placing himself as a character in mythical and modern tales.

Art-making and world-building in Kaliyu-topia

Kiveshan Thumbiran sat with Youlendree Appasamy to talk through his art-making process, which is a combination of digital, video and printmaking.

Constant battle: In Not Even a Needle’s-width of Land, artist Kiveshan Thumbiran wishes to convey how being a South African Indian has positioned him on both sides of the narrative

Kaliyu-topia: Displacement questioned at the end of days

An epic first solo show attempts to establish a visual vernacular that South African Indians can relate to

Subversion: ‘Shree: I am Shakti’ uses a traditional Indian dance form with a South African take to convey views on social issues such as femininity. Photo: Anthea Pokroy Photography

Classic dance tells struggle heroine’s story

Using a dance form with ties to raising one’s chances of married, the performance tackled societal norms that shape South African Indian femininity

The winners of the annual Young Farmers and Young Female Entrepreneurs Awards with their various awards. (Photo: Wikus de Wet/AFP)

Celebrating women and youth in agriculture

Women farmers produce 80% of Africa’s food, but only own 1% of the land

Lerato Senakhomo has been very successful with her maize crops and is the overall winner of the Young Farmers Award. (Photo: Wikus de Wet/AFP)

2018 Young Farmer Award winner – Senakhomo Farming

Senakhomo is recognised for her outstanding maize yields

Selina Hlabedi has vast experience in farming and is passing on this knowledge to the youth. (Photo: Wikus de Wet/AFP)

Retrospective view

‘We empower other farmers, especially the youth and women’

Some of the hard working women who won prizes at the Young Farmers award ceremony. (Photo: Wikus de Wet/AFP)

2017 Young Farmer Awards winner – Vilakazi Farming Business Enterprise

‘Farming is life, and some of us black women are making it in what used to be a man’s world’

New age ‘agri-preneur’ Anna Phosa is the only black female commercial pig farmer in South Africa

Anna Phosa is living her dream of becoming a successful pig farmer

Phosa is supplying hundreds of pigs to Pick n Pay every week

Portia Mngomezulu won the Female Entrepreneur Award for her skincare products made from marulas. (Photo: Wikus de Wet/AFP)

2018 Female Entrepreneur Award – Sibhale Skin Solutions

‘I was the only one in the business when I started’