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Outdoor art: Mankebe Seakgoe’s When the Sky Opened Up and Swallowed us Whole (2023), charcoal on canvas.
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Outside the white cube, art learns to breathe again

A group exhibition in North West challenged institutional norms, inviting artists and audiences to rethink experimentation, community and artistic freedom

Igshaan Adams, Gebedswolke (2025). ©
Igshaan Adams.

Structures of the forgotten: An installation of song, soil and spirit

A haunting meditation on land, memory and rain, Dinokana invites us to rebuild from what was lost

President Cyril Ramaphosa. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

Ramaphosa loses North West to rival Zweli Mkhize

Cyril Ramaphosa and his allies cruised through the ballot for presidential nominations with an almost 55% lead over Mkhize, but on the eve of the nominations, North West switched…

HHP sound checks for the MTV Africa Music Awards in 2009. (Photo by Michelly Rall/Getty Images)

HHP’s Top 10 hits

On the anniversary of the rapper HHP’s death, we reflect on some of his greatest hits

Fanbase: Backers of Supra Mahumapelo (centre) celebrate after a court ruling that the decision to disband the ANC’s North West PEC was unlawful. Photo: Felix Dlangamandla/Gallo Images/Netwerk 24/Beeld

Disbanded ANC North West regions may be reinstated

Supporters of ousted North West ANC chair Supra Mahumapelo are set to overturn the ruling dissolving their regional executive committees

What if Ramaphosa gets sick?

Senior South African politicians have not been spared the coronavirus. What happens if the head of state is not well enough to be at his desk?

The municipality has accrued billions of rand in wasteful spending, and more than 6 000 putrid bucket toilets

Sisulu and the bucket toilet stink

The minister has joined a long line of politicians and ministers promising to eradicate bucket toilets and then failing to deliver