The Arts

Teenage rebellion, redemption and cross-country journeys hit the screens

I can’t help but wonder if we saw this coming

Zakifo Music Festival 2017

District Six residents remember

Ernestine White speaks on race, privilege and opportunity

Musical trailblazers at the Cape Town International Jazz Festival

Western clientele hungry for more

From humble beginnings in a pub to a formidable arts and culture movement

Remembering Jazz legend, Thandi Klaasen

Photostory: breaking down patriarchial stereotypes of the perfect bride

SA actress and radio personality becomes youngest ever member of SAMRO board

Open Forum creates a ‘safe space’ for reflection and dialogue

A new exhibition pays homage to warrior women of our past

Siya Makuzeni and the boundlessness of Music

Conversations with women making a difference

“Don’t mourn for me. Organise”

A Tessa Muller Production

A 21^st Century journalist finds her 19^th Century ancestor

Network creates own art opportunities

Ja Mag How do you go about piecing together the history of a South Africa musical icon whose story wasn’t only left out of the local jazz narrative, but was almost entirely undiscovered? The answer it seems, is through four years of on-and-off interviews, a whole lot of financial loaning, and the quiet, burning passion that only a lover of jazz can possess. Directed by Nhlanhla Masondo, Shwabada: a film on the music of Ndikho Xaba is perhaps one of the most important music documentaries to...

SA a place “where the final chapter has not yet been written”

“They’re not all that stupid, can see through fabrication”

Dave Mann, Ja Mag Banele Njadayi’s career began on an interesting note. His first encounters with art came through days spent on the streets of Eastern Cape’s Grahamstown, with salvaged materials and makeshift canvases as his tools. Dave Mann speaks to the growing artist about capturing the day to day lives of Eastern Cape residents. As a youngster, Banele Njadayi would opt out of afternoons spent playing soccer with friends to go in search of charred wood and wanting walls to practise his...

Protest at RMF exhibition an ‘act of black love’