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Done waiting: Campbell Meas, winner of this year’s National Playwright Competition at the National Arts Festival. Photo: Boipelo Khunou

Campbell Meas is done waiting

A candid look at Campbell Meas’s journey navigating creativity, identity and the challenges of breaking into the arts industry

Poetic justice lights up an artist’s life

There is a growing sense of alienation sweeping through the artistic community, in terms of support from both the state and the private sector.

Zodwa Kumalo-Valentine.

The long road to dethroning patriarchy

Women and their place in the arts.

Letters to the editor: May 30 to June 5 2014

M&G readers speak their minds about policies against European culture in the arts and EFF commissar Andile Mngxitama’s open letter to Richard Branson.

East Africa ups the fashion stakes

Fashion Weeks in Uganda, Rwanda and Burundi provide a showcase for local designers and are spurring similar events in neighbouring countries.

Sadtu declared their commitment to improving quality public education by defending the education budget

Art is education

What benefits can be had from art in a young developing democracy such as ours? Mpho Moshe Matheolane takes the arts back to the classroom.

The M&G chats to Laurent Clavel of the French Season in South Africa 2012 which sees collaboration in theatre

Q&A: The French-South African season

The M&G chats to Laurent Clavel of the French Season in South Africa 2012 which sees collaboration in theatre, music and other arts.

The R150-million Soweto Theatre complex opens this week and forms part of an ambitious development plan to revive Soweto’s cultural life.

Soweto Theatre: A dream realised

The R150-million Soweto Theatre complex opens this week and forms part of an ambitious development plan to revive Soweto’s cultural life.

Zim’s new age of boredom

Supermarkets are choked with goods, garages compete for customers, but artists are fresh out of material for satire, writes Jason Moyo.

A way to keep the dust down

Particularly at this time of year, dust is the curse of desperate housewives. It is also the cause of sinus problems and lung irritations.

Cutting through black and white

What the latest spat over racism in the theatre means for the transformation of the arts