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In her own words: The Mail & Guardian’s multimedia journalist Busi Lethole explores her vocal range. Photo: Nova4Media
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How I became a rockstar in four months

Rebecca Malope sparked a fire in me as a child. Decades later, I honoured that flame with my first full-band performance

Women of the struggle: Artist Sue Williamson with works from her series of photo portraits from the ongoing series All Our Mothers.
Photo: Courtesy the artist and Goodman Gallery

The long and short of a 50-year artistic career

Sue Williamson’s new show opens in Joburg and a retrospective is coming soon

Illuminating: Artist Solomon Mugutso says his work is about giving people hope and helping them to see the light inside them. Photo: Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

Painter pursues hope and light through his work

Solomon Mugutso takes inspiration from the lives of everyday people for his paintings

Work from Noria Mabasa’s exhibition Shaping Dreams at the Nirox Sculpture Park. (Supplied by Lucky Lekalakala)

Sculptor is shaping dreams

The work of 84-year-old artist Noria Mabasa explores traditions, mythology and spirituality

Land of Milk and Honey

Tony Gum launches her latest exhibition, ‘Milked in Africa’, in New York

The multidisciplinary artist talks about finding herself through visual storytelling.

Nanna Venter’s covers are inspired by punk and flowerbomb typeset detail she encountered in the US edition of Afterland.

The Portfolio: Nanna Venter

‘Artsronaut’ Nanna Venter lets us in on her process for designing book covers, including for Lauren Beukes’s ‘Afterland’

Drama queen: Lebo Mathosa performing at a Missy Elliot concert in 2005 (Lefty Shivambu/Getty Images)

Re-memoring Madibuseng

​We re-examine Lebo Mathosa’s legacy as a biopic about the singer’s life hits our screens

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Fela in Versace: how popular culture is driving 21st century pan-Africanism

When the AU is making promising strides in realising African integration through the adoption of pop culture, what lessons should be taken from them?

At work: Conrad Botes uses photographs of Marikana as a backdrop to his paintings. Photo: Jan Verboom

Botes takes on a giant subject

The artist uses his trademark comic-book style and a touch of Goya to address Marikana

The short movie Me: The Film, which incorporates fashion design, performance and music, features Zoe Modiga. Like her show, it draws the audience in, revealing her power and vulnerability

Connecting through silence with Zoë Modiga

Zoë Modiga’s sound played through headphones cuts any distance between her and the audience

The way it is: Donald Glover

Childish Gambino shows us America

‘This is America’ comes amid the world’s leisurely smartphone view of the United States’ ongoing political and cultural pandemonium.

Celebrating South Africanness: Rapper Katt Daddy and singer Yoza Mnyanda combined their talents to form Darkie Fiction

The delicious sounds of fiction

The musical duo Darkie Fiction produces truly nourishing — truly South African — food for the millennial soul

Get down: Enjoylife perform at Red Bull Culture Clash at 787 Windsor in Atlanta

Red Bull Culture Clash: The beat of two cities

If Atlanta was a taste of what’s to come, Orlando Stadium is going to explode like never before

The underlying message being pushed is a narrow, conservative ideology:  Be, heterosexual, traditional. Reject feminism. Reject LGBTQ rights. Photo: Antonio Bronic/Reuters

Trans-shaming by public figures ‘worsens the prejudice’

Queerphobia in the media has been in the spotlight again this week after radio presenter Criselda Dudumashe misgendered her trans audience members

Mines will feel the pain of the indigenisation policy more than any other sector.

The church of iNice Time and blessings

On their album AKA and Anatii keep the tradition of hip-hop spirituality and prosperity

Finding peace: Tebogo Poopedi lost his vision at the age of 14 but he hasn’t let that stop him from succeeding in the hip-hop world

Mr Tap’s vision to inspire others

Aubrey Poopedi defies the odds of blindness, and reaches the firmament of greatness as a rapper

Shining a light: The mural of Imraan Christian’s project in Hangberg

Our stories, if told by us, help heal us

“At its essence the name alludes to the ‘For Us By Us’ attitude that comes with this project. The lens is not one of an outsider looking in."

In the near future

Heard it on the radio: Musicians need the airwaves to make it

Artists may one day make it by releasing their music on the internet, but radio is still king.

Hamas said Trump’s decision would “open the gates of hell” on US interests in the region.

For better or worse, SA rap has become all about the money

Dodging politics, the new struggle for local hip-hop artists is for freedom through material wealth

‘Niggaz’ are scared of revolution: Some artists avoid rocking the boat

Some artists are taking the rap for nailing their political colours to the mast while steering clear of negative ‘political repercussions’