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The grand-scale production Calling Us Home — The Musical is set to begin an ambitious multi-country tour across Africa, starting in Durban in 2025. (Photo supplied)

Diary: Christmas at The Big Top Arena, Keenan Meyer live, Calling Us Home

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Greg Solomon, Chief Executive Officer at McDonald’s South Africa and Marks Thibela, Chief Executive Officer at CATHSSETA.

McDonald’s South Africa collaborates with CATHSSETA to develop workforce

Continuous skills development is crucial to enable the youth to adapt to changing job markets and technological advancements

True story: Malcolm Jiyane will be performing in Joburg on 19 July.

Diary: Redhill Arts Festival, Food Indaba in Cape Town and Malcolm Jiyane Tree-O at Untitled Basement

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Delicious Festival Trader Academy Powered by FoodBev SETA in partnership with CATHSSETA launches next leg of SMME development programme

The academy helps small businesses to gain exposure and access to market opportunities so they can reach their full potential

Senior executives of the dysfunctional King Sabata Dalindyebo local municipality — with the assistance of the deputy minister of agriculture, rural development and land reform, Nokuzola Capa — spent R183  997.82 to attend the ANC’s February elections manifesto launch. (Photo by Darren Stewart/Gallo Images via Getty Images)

Manifestos: EFF is tops — but what trumps how

Although they are full of promises, parties lack concrete, informed policies for the arts

South African actors John Kani (left, as ‘Creon’) and Winston Ntshona (1941-2018, as ‘Antigone’) perform at the final dress rehearsal of the Market Theatre of Johannesburg/Royal National Theatre revival of Athol Fugard’s ‘The Island’ at the Brooklyn Academy of Music Harvey Theater, Brooklyn, New York, New York, March 31, 2003. Kani and Ntshona co-authored the play with Athol Fugard in 1973. (Photo by Jack Vartoogian/Getty Images)

Market Theatre needs funding as audiences, donor support decline

Patrons have not returned to theatres in their numbers after the Covid-19 lockdowns were lifted.

Gazi Simelane (Dusty) and Linda Msibi (Stones) are country music singers from the Kingdom of eSwatini. The 22-year-old band of two boasts of being the only African band to participate in the Texas Sounds International Country Music Awards, clinching the Duo of the Year Award 2017.
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eSwatini’s country music cousins hit the screens in New York

The award-winning country music pair are the subject of a new documentary by filmmaker Jesse Rudoy, which premiered at the New York film festival

Emmy-nominated actress Thuso Mbedu credits inclusivity, equality, and sustainability to getting her career to where it is today.

Flying the flag for the youth

Emmy-nominated actress Thuso Mbedu credits inclusivity, equality, and sustainability to getting her career to where it is today. As a Mail & Guardian Top 200 Young South African,…

Winners of the 2013 International Opera Awards “Chorus of the Year”, the Cape Town Opera Chorus will perform a new one-hour showcase of African and African American spirituals. (Getty)

Top 10 must see events at Makhanda Festival

For the first time in two years, The National Arts Festival is back with an in-person star-studded list of artists and performers

Book Review: ‘Now You Know How Mapetla Died’

Historian and author Zikhona Valela unravels the life and death of Black Consciousness activist Mapetla Mohapi, who died in detention in 1976

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It’s vital to get the Copyright Amendment Bill right

The currently proposed hybrid ‘fair use’ principle does not do nearly enough to protect artists, and will bankrupt them if it forces them to litigate each instance of copyright…

Sunny Ade’s Festac ’77 constitutes one of the many albums celebrating the festival

Reproducing Festac ’77: A secret among a family of millions

An interview with Chimurenga founder Ntone Edjabe about his latest project