PHOTO ESSAY | Inside The Rand Club where old Johannesburg’s elite would meet

The Rand Club is one of the great historical landmarks of old Johannesburg. Episodes in its history were at the centre of events that...

14 May 2021

No entry fee required - take a walk through Death Row Record's cool new virtual museum now

Fans get to visit the art gallery, "Legends of Death Row" exhibit, a gift shop and more. All this while listening to a playlist of some...

14 May 2021

Where Johannesburg's prominent men went to socialise, debate and connive

From the stately mansions of the Randlords to their downtown headquarters, the clubs where they socialised and the churches where they...

14 May

How Dirk Coetzee's unpublished memoir could break the apartheid police's code of silence

As former security police blame fading memories to dodge questions about apartheid atrocities, an unpublished memoir provides rare...

13 May

Phylicia Rashad returns to her alma mater Howard University as a dean

In accepting the position, Rashad agreed to a three-year contract that will see her relocating. As dean, she will focus on teaching,...

13 May

Why the US government asked Kim Kardashian to forfeit an ancient Roman sculpture

Titled Fragment of Myron’s Samian Athena, the sculpture is from Italy and was completed during the early Roman Empire. It seems that...

12 May

Broadway makes a comeback with Hamilton, Lion King and Wicked

Three of Broadway's biggest musicals - Hamilton, Wicked and The Lion King - on Tuesday announced they would be back on stage in...

12 May 2021

The Baxter to premiere an adaptation of JM Coetzee’s Life and Times of Michael K

This June, The Baxter will stage its largest and most illustrious undertaking in the decade. Adapted from Life and Times of Michael K, ...

12 May

'Johannesburg is for sale': Monuments to the eternal spaces

The roll-call of spaces for art does many things; cultivates communities, mixes forms, self-organises, embrace transience, reveres music,...

11 May 2021

PHOTO ESSAY | ‘Who runs Jozi’ from Andile Buka’s Crossing Strangers

Crossing Strangers marks Johannesburg based photographer Andile Buka's first published body of work. It is a visual reflection of a...

12 May

Grandson to the co-founder of South Africa’s first Black Firearms Association donates his archive

Sergeant Edward Louw was a police officer at the Sophiatown Police Station during the 1960s. As the co-founder of South Africa’s first...

11 May

National Arts Festival Evolves into a Hybrid Festival Experience for 2021

The National Arts Festival has adapted its Festival experience to bring the arts to audiences where they are and at a time when we still...

11 May

Remembering Zim Ngqawana 10 years on, a singular force in South African music

Recalling him on the 10th anniversary of his death is to remember how a South African jazz musician’s life and death, in a country that...

10 May

'You must never suffer as long as you still have hands': Scavenger economies of the mine dumps

Ultimately, the essay portrays the workings of an invisible but vibrant economy on the region’s mine dumps – seemingly dead spaces...

10 May 2021

Fête de la Musique is calling for your applications

The festival is calling for musicians, DJs and bands from all music genres, amateur and professional, to apply to perform in this year’s...

10 May

Da Vinci’s ‘Head of Bear’ drawing may fetch up to $16 million

A drawing of a bear’s head by Leonardo da Vinci is seen fetching up to $16.7 million, potentially setting a record, when it heads to...

10 May

EXCERPT | Sol Plaatje’s Mhudi: A century of Black History, Criticism, Celebration and Land Struggles

A century on from when it was written, the time is now right to both celebrate its composition and to assess its meanings and legacy....

07 May 2021

'Exposing Rhodes’s grand theft of African land, resources and the mass murder he perpetrated': The trial of Cecil John Rhodes

Cecil Rhodes awakens in an After African Limbo after being asleep for 120 years. Guided by Efua Sutherland, Rhodes is taken on a tour of...

07 May 2021