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Helping hand: Nelisiwe Xaba’s performance lecture ‘Bang Bang Wo’ examines the baggage that comes with help. ( Stella Olivier/ The Centre For The Less Good Idea)
ART

The cyclical politics of help

Black women and trans artists are worthy of support but it should not come with terms and restrictions

  • Zaza Hlalethwa
5 min read
A curator, artist, intellectual, critic and mentor always looking to create space for black artists in South Africa’s white art world, David Koloane was a towering, critical figure.
ACHILLE MBEMBE

David Koloane’s art is a love letter to Jo’burg

Two art exhibitions reveal the intimate relationship between one of South Africa’s great modernists and the city of his life

  • Niren Tolsi
10 min read
To err: Blessing Ngobeni contemplates the power of failure in his exhibition A Note from Error. Photo: Paul Botes
THEMBINKOSI GONIWE

Ngobeni’s beautiful nightmare

The artist says our errors may give us the wisdom needed to confront these difficult times

  • Athi Mongezeleli Joja
8 min read
A gallery of one’s own
ART

A gallery of one’s own

Percy Zvomuya checks out artist and former curator Thembinkosi Goniwe’s impressive collection of art at his home in Orange Grove.

  • Percy Zvomuya
4 min read