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Mandy Johnston’s latest exhibition uses burning steel wool sculptures and ash paintings to explore ritual, transformation and the transitions that shape our lives

Mandy Johnston wants to burn things to bring back traditions

The Joburg-born artist’s latest exhibition uses burning steel wool sculptures and ash paintings to explore ritual, transformation and the transitions that shape our lives

A chance gallery stop becomes an intimate encounter with Amogelang Maepa’s sensual, emotionally charged exploration of fleeting desire and lasting residue

A ‘One-Night Stand’ with Amogelang Maepa

A chance gallery stop becomes an intimate encounter with Amogelang Maepa’s sensual, emotionally charged exploration of fleeting desire and lasting residue

Investment: InterContinental Table Bay Cape Town has undergone a R1 billion refurbishment. Photo: IHG

Tourism sector is evolving upwards

Travel is becoming planned, curated and experience-led again. The development pipeline reflects that

Rethink: If South Africa is going to be leaders in African tourism, offering an experience like no other, then the
industry will need to align with incoming international standards. Photo: Supplied

Design, building sector ripe for a pivot

It’s one thing to be a desirable city for tourists and charge premium hotel room prices, but the execution of the experience must match

Top dollar: One on Bree is a 131m (430ft) mixed-use building under construction in Cape Town. Photo: Paragon Architects

The real estate year in review

2025 didn’t see a boom but it was not a bust

Strong bru: Black Coffee will headline Africa Is Not a Jungle in Durban on Saturday 8 November. Photo: Supplied

Diary: Africa Is Not a Jungle, ACCES Music Conference and Red Bull Flugtag

Your essential dose of art and culture

Up and away: Ellipse Waterfall, situated in Waterfall City, Midrand, was developed by the Tricolt Group. Photo: Supplied

Building confidence builds the economy

Real estate investment trusts are booming, reporting strong results for the interim period ending December

Plush: The Cape Wheel was recently relocated to the Granger Bay precinct at V&A Waterfront, the area marked for new development. Photo: Supplied

V&A Waterfront to reclaim land from sea – again

The Waterfront’s infrastructural investment – worth more than R20 billion – will be the largest in Cape Town since the 2010 Soccer World Cup

Founded in 2011 by brothers George and Mike Heaton, Represent is a British luxury fashion label. Their mission is simple: to build the best brand in the world.

Highly anticipated launch of luxury British streetwear brand in Cape Town

The first Ritual pop-up store is set to open its doors in mid November ‘23 at the V&A Waterfront

File photo by Delwyn Verasamy/M&G

Bleak outlook for South Africa’s struggling retail sector

Retailer confidence has slumped to the lowest levels since the 2020 Covid-19 lockdowns

The African Development Bank (AfDB) says South Africa’s well-developed financial sector has the potential to be the continent’s powerhouse.

Back to the office, but commercial property woes remain

The commercial property sector probably peaked in 2022. Office vacancies remain high and harsh economic conditions continue to constrain growth

The Living Room won the Restaurant of the year award.

The best places to eat out

Restaurant of the year goes to the only Durban-based restaurant that made it to 2022 Eat Out Award winners

The Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa. Photo supplied

The art of architecture: Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa

Opened five years ago, Cape Town’s Zeitz Mocaa was once a storage building for grain

After the stall during 2020’s pandemic, travellers have come storming back exponentially each year. (Rajesh Jantilal/AFP)

​​Shrewd management of future Covid waves is key to the tourism industry’s recovery

Stakeholders are cautiously optimistic about 2022, citing relaxed restrictions and discussions with the government as reasons for hope.

The lockdown provided us with a prism through which we could look at our crazy lives and simplify them. It was a strange and special time

South Africa’s mothballed ‘supermall-ification’ sets strip malls up for success

Analysts agree that the country has enough malls and that, post-Covid, the convenience of local centres lure customers

Destruction: Train carriages at Cape Town Station were set alight in November last year. As of January this year there are reportedly only 32 train sets operating out of the 88 required.  (Rodger Bosch/AFP)

Cape Town commuters still derailed

Cape Town’s largest passenger rail line has been closed for months, hitting people’s pockets and adding to road traffic congestion in the city

As the most valuable piece of real estate in South Africa

The art of being opaque: Why Zeitz should open its books

The alleged improper conduct of the Zeitz MOCAA curator has raised questions about the transparency of a museum that is subsidised with public money

Dams would need to reach 65% by the end of the rainy season at the start of October before the city’s water storage capacity moves out of the danger zone. (David Harrison/M&G)

As Cape Town drought bites, what is ‘Day Zero’?

"Day Zero" is the day when city officials will be forced to cut off the normal water supply to more than one-million households.

‘A machine for culture’: Artist’s impressions of the design by Thomas Heatherwick for the art museum at the V&A Waterfront in Cape Town.

Zeitz Museum set to become Cape Town’s ‘centrepiece’

English designer Thomas Heatherwick shares his vision for Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa, which he describes as a place of imagination.

A lover of dirty, smelly and unsightly architecture

Industrial archaeologist David Worth champions the bleak monuments of South Africa’s industrial architecture.