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Purple haze: Jacaranda in bloom are beauties, but condemn the aliens.

There are new killers on the loose

They come in the form of the shot borer beetle and people who don’t appreciate the shade, leaves and flowers of trees in urban areas

On the face of it: South African photographer Pieter Hugo’s pictures Tiananmen Square, Beijing, 2015 (Pieter Hugo)

Pieter Hugo’s tragic beauty pushes the button of mortality

The photographer’s ambitious new exhibition What the Light Falls On is a free-ranging meditation on life

Bridging the gap: Sabelo Mlangeni with Kamogelo Walaza, curator of his show Ngiyobona Phambili, and details of two works, Voices in Trenches, Delville Wood, 2016 and Dangerous Crossing, Arques Labttaille, 2016.

Sabelo Mlangeni: The grey and green of trauma

Photographer’s homecoming exhibition travels through art, memory and being black in the West

Renowned: Chilean-born, US-based Alfredo Jaar has a place in South Africa. Photo: Jee Eun Esther Jang

Conflict, migration exposed

Alfredo Jaar’s photo exhibition is of Rwandan, Sudanese, Afghani and Vietnamese refugees

At night they walk with me by Sibusiso Bheka

Young South African snapper Sibusiso Bheka graces Amsterdam

Bheka, who started his career at the Of Soul and Joy programme in Thokoza, was chosen for a residency at the prestigious NOOR photo agency in the Netherlands

Mbuzeni Zulu poses for photos after an event to
honour him in June. (Oupa Nkosi)

Mbuzeni Zulu: Photographer who shot the stars gets his place in the sun

Lensman Mbuzeni Zulu’s subjects ranged from black popular culture to bloody unrest

Ponahalo Mojapelo’s decision to have multiple hustles was driven by needing the money as well as wanting to explore her talents. (Wanga Mtlokwa)

Creatives morph to new world

Jobs and careers are changing rapidly and digital content creators are adapting

Lebogang Tlhako (Delwyn Verasamy)

Slice of life: ‘Now I create for myself’

I’m also no longer trying to create work for someone else

Andrew Tshabangu’s ‘Footprints’

The Lists: Mary Lou Williams, Andrew Tshabangu and relationship accountability

The Lists this week are compiled by ‘Friday’ editor Milisuthando Bongela and arts writer Kwanele Sosibo

Sound and light: Andrew Tshabangu’s Ngome Midnight Mass. Images from his exhibition Footprints were the inspiration for an improvised performance by jazz musicians

Jazz artists follow in Tshabangu’s Footprints

"The evening unfolded into a repertoire of mostly hymns and soft ballad-like compositions"

Johnny Miller used a drone to take the aerial photographs that highlight the close proximity of poverty and wealth in places like Vukuzenzele and Sweet Home Farm in the Western Cape.

A bird’s-eye view of the truth

Cape Town-based photographer Johnny Miller seeks to give a fresh look at the country’s known disproportions.

David Goldblatt on Ranjith Kally’s ‘Memory Against Forgetting’

David Goldblatt salutes a photographer whose work speaks fluently about people and events

A photographer tells us about collaborating on a powerful project to document the diversity of spiritual practices in Réunion Island and South Africa.

Bridges: Different brands of faith

A photographer tells us about collaborating on a powerful project to document the diversity of spiritual practices in Réunion Island and South Africa.

Chasing Shadows: Shebeen. (Copyright Santu Mofokeng Foundation, courtesy Lunetta Bartz MAKER )

Out of the shadows

A comprehensive retrospective of Santu Mofokeng’s work deserves a better showing at the Wits Art Museum.