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- Sep 3, 2026
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Inside Contra.Joburg’s city-wide art weekend (opens the original)
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In any artist’s career, finding platforms to exhibit and sell their work is vital. Beyond friends, family and connections on social media, an artist’s work deserves to be seen, touched and purchased. As such, art festivals play a significant role for artists to showcase new works, engage with a variety of audiences and hopefully get something into the bank account. This past weekend, all roads led to Contra.Joburg 2026. Now in its fifth year, Contra.Joburg brought together more than 170 artists
Making ‘Umthetho’ unmistakably South African (opens the original)
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The ironic quest of a prison gang fighting for human rights, corrupt officials and fractured families are some of the themes explored in the new Netflix series, Umthetho. An adaptation of Netflix Brazilian series Brotherhood, Umthetho is a tale of blood, bullets and brotherhood. Adaptations, however, raise the question of whether stories developed elsewhere can resonate with local audiences. The connection between the two series is not particularly difficult to establish. In the first episode of
Kagiso Lesego Molope wants us to remember what we inherit (opens the original)
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The devastating impact of apartheid on families, particularly black women, is a theme Kagiso Lesego Molope explores throughout her work. Her latest novel, We Inherit the Fire, continues the exploration. The South African-Canadian novelist and playwright’s work resurrects memory, restores hope and reminds readers that even in the face of adversity, a people can rebuild again. “I write apartheid not only to document the past but to ask questions that are relevant to today. That forces us to decide
Dreaming of justice in Philisiwe Twijnstra's magical worlds (opens the original)
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For centuries, artists have been inspired by the dream world to craft mesmerising work from what might seem like nonsensical and supernatural realms. About half of the 15 short stories in Flying Cows and Other Traumas were drawn from the dream state to bring to life a collection traversing magical realism, speculative fiction and fantasy. “I would not have been able to imagine the collection this way if it were not a dream state,” Philisiwe Twijnstra explains during our virtual interview. The So
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