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What does it mean to be an Afrikan Man? (Shabaka 2012)

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Football’s Burden of History

As people we are products of histories that we have no hand in their creation and the kind that we actively participate in its making through our actions or lack of them.

PRESS RELEASE: TLOKWE SEHUME MAKES HIS LONG AWAITED RETURN TO THE

Four years after his last performance Tlokwe Sehume makes his return to the performance stage in Soweto

Afrika Rea Bolela. A collaboration between Wesley Pepper and Mol

We were always fascinated by graffiti and other street- related ‘sub-cultures’. I loved the idea of expressing creativity in and on what seems like a very unforgiving environment. The city as a metaphor in contemporary society is heavy

THE TAXI CHRONICLES SERIES – A taxi home

Peering into the taxi I see there are only three vacant seats. I say, “Molweni” and the two ladies I would be sharing a seat with exchange glances, the cheekier of the two mumbles, “Morning.”

Kyle Allan

She found an Africa of beauty in me, revealed treasures of the unknown, the forgotten, she penetrated the borders of my fear with her love, she planted my mountains with kisses and arrows of beauty

Mini Biography – Mama Dorothy Masuku

Dorothy Masuka is an African musical treasure, one of the continent’s all-time greatest vocalists and performers, and one of its greatest and most prolific composers as well.

Why we can’t forget

I do not for one bit question whether it is necessary to remember the events of 21 March 1960. I may not be the right person or one with adequate knowledge about the naming of holidays but I am relatively convinced that if we do not at the least take efforts like those of the City of Tshwane’s renaming of the busy street; Esselen as Robert Sobukwe and the former Beatrix street as Steve Biko

Afrika Rea Bolela (Afrika Let’s Talk): ARTiculating the Constitution – Press Release

An art exhibition presented by the Bataki Kollective - Women’s Jail, Constitution Hill, corner Joubert and Kotze Streets - Braamfontein, Johannesburg 8 – 29 April 2013