South Africa’s architects may be low-key at Venice but their designs are helping correct social injustices
Architecture, design, innovation and toilets swirled together in separate international initiatives in Durban and Cape Town.
The alarm has been raised at a congress for architects over stats revealing that only 24% of built environment professionals are black and 9% female.
Tygerberg Zoo, in the Western Cape, became the latest casualty in the changing nature of conservation, writes Sean O’Toole.
In a South African first, a local financier is sharing his private collection with the public.
South African-based author Sarah Lotz was scraping by before a British publishing house offered her a six-figure deal.
The continent was not portrayed as sexy at the Frankfurt Book Fair, but at least it led to sales.
His performance in Grahamstown has been given a second airing in a more limited and profound form.
