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Spiritual cleansing: The artist says the image Isambulo was made in Sea Point, with two queer collaborators wearing garments that relate to church, spirituality, and rebirth, and that it was inspired by the poet Koleka Putuma. Photo: Noncedo Gxekwa
CARBON COPY

The Portfolio: A return to eMbo

Artist Noncedo Gxekwa on the image Isambulo, part of the exhibition Lightworkers: The evidence of things unseen

  • Noncedo Gxekwa
2 min read
Caster Semenya may well have run out of legal options after latest loss in Swiss tribunal (Michael Dodge/Getty Images)
2016 OLYMPICS

What we talk about when we talk about Caster Semenya

Semenya’s fight tells us much about how the world sees black women, especially as they compete for gold.

  • Lindokuhle Nkosi
10 min read
Choices: The Options exhibition is made up of diagrams and schema such as ‘prop 8 [prou(k)n]’, 2018
EXHIBITION

Worming into the guts of the unseen

The exhibition ‘Options’ is a search by artist Nolan Oswald Dennis for humanity

  • Lindokuhle Nkosi
10 min read
In a musical lecture at Jo’burg’s Civic Theatre this weekend, sonic historian Mbuso Khoza and the African Heritage Ensemble marry art, history and research to explore the story of the British defeat at Isandlwana. Photos: Sbonga Gatsheni
KZN HERITAGE ENSEMBLE

Music casts light on Isandlwana

A historian is providing a new take on a battle that still rages on today over fact and fiction

  • Lindokuhle Nkosi
7 min read
The Drill Hall in Johannesburg.
DRILL HALL

Black artists must hitch their wagon to BEE

From the fate of establishments like Keleketla! Library and Slaghuis to investing in black arts, Lindokuhle Nkosi zooms in on black creative spaces.

  • Lindokuhle Nkosi
8 min read
I protest: Actor
BEN TUROK
Audio

The struggle is in the songs

Several artists are reminding us that protest music has always been at the heart of the revolution.

  • Lindokuhle Nkosi
7 min read