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Breathing space: Mona Monyane plays the lead character Lesego in the film Sabbatical, which explores themes such as the price of success and family pressures
BOKANI DYER

When the hustle breaks you: Karabo Lediga’s quietly radical Sabbatical

A layered, indie-styled character study, the film is a meditation on failure, family and fragile identity

  • Kibo Ngowi
7 min read
Music, meaning and magic: Shekhinah (above) and Mi Casa will perform at a concert in Durban Botanic Gardens.
AFRICAN MUSIC

Diary: Old Mutual Music at the Lake, Mo Eazy releases Teriba, Diprente’s Sabbatical opens in May

Your essential dose of art and culture

  • Lesego Chepape
  • Kibo Ngowi
2 min read
Directed by Kagiso Lediga and Tebogo Malope in the first original African series commissioned by US streaming giant Netflix. (Netflix)
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Video

Queen Sono moers the dudes

The spy drama with its kick-ass heroine Queen Sono shows the continent in a new light

  • Kwanele Sosibo
  • Zaza
8 min read
Queen Sono (Netflix)
AFRICA
Audio

What Queen Sono sounds like

Together with songs to look out for in the series, Zaza Hlalethwa asked the cast for songs that encapsulated their experience on the set of the Netflix original series Queen Sono.

  • Zaza Hlalethwa
2 min read