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Investec Cape Town Art Fair names its 2026 award winners

The Investec Cape Town Art Fair announces its 2026 prize winners, spotlighting artists whose practices are reshaping contemporary conversations around material, image and digital…

Free State Premier Ace Magashule.

On the days when I’d rather stay in bed

The ‘nagging little monsters’ of anxiety taunt us as we journey on the pursuit of endless #goals

Fela Gucci: “We’re already trying to survive so much”.

We cannot continue to suffer in silence

"Who knew that I might share a similar condition with the person I was taught to shame?"

Maneo Mohale

Words can banish our ghosts

"I wanted to show it all to her, so she could fix me. I needed her to fix me".

I never thought that I could be on TV: Television mogul Diliza Moabi reflects on his journey.

Staying sane in a trying industry

Diliza Moabi is passionate about TV and has spent the greater part of his life making his dreams come true

A polar bear at the Arctic Ocean

A family’s unspoken curse

The inherited shame of schizophrenia leaves the writer wondering whether he will be next

Carbon copy: Julie Nxadi as a child at her family home

Us in the house of mirrors

An illness plagues the women here — drawing them together, then apart, then together again

A brick house: Zaza Hlalethwa

My mother raised a brick house

"Like the space between bricks, cement fills the connections between my hips and feet".

Lee Perry: ‘If they say I am mad

A mind map of the soul

A problematic yet evocative term, madness has been commandeered by legions of artists who are searching for meaning and, often, for God.