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Where South African Talent Meets Culture. Join us monthly for captivating conversations with talented South African musicians and artists. Dive into insightful book and movie reviews, stay updated on upcoming live shows, and engage in thought-provoking lifestyle discussions.
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INTERVIEW: AUTHOR MESROB VARTAVARIAN (opens the original)
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Today on Styleskoops we’re speaking to historian Mesrob Vartavarian, author of Privileged Minorities: A History of Wealth Concentration in South Africa. His book explores how anticolonial struggles, instead of dismantling inequality, helped cement new privileged minorities and exclusive economic advantages that still shape South Africa today.
INTERVIEW: BLACK BEAN PRODUCTIONS ON ELEPHANT ALONE (opens the original)
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Welcome to Styleskoops, where South African talent meets culture and powerful storytelling. Today we’re shining a spotlight on conservation filmmaking with the Creative Director of Black Bean Productions, Sam Suter. Black Bean Productions is an independent production house based in Cape Town that crafts impact-driven documentary and commercial films across conservation and humanitarian spaces. We’ll be talking about their latest work, including the long-form documentary Elephant Alone, and explo
INTERVIEW: AUTHOR PHILISIWE TWIJNSTRA (opens the original)
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Today on Styleskoops we’re stepping into worlds where flying cows, malevolent forces, and black women heroes collide. We’re joined by writer and interdisciplinary artist Philisiwe Twijnstra to talk about her new short story collection, Flying Cows and Other Traumas.
INTERVIEW: AUTHOR KAMANEE GOVENDER (opens the original)
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On today’s edition of Styleskoops, we turn the spotlight on a powerful new South African voice in fiction, writer and filmmaker Kamanee Govender. Her debut novel, Stern Gods, is a haunting coming-of-age story set in 1980s apartheid South Africa, where eleven-year-old Kaathi Reddy navigates poverty, patriarchy, and violence in the Indian township of Bombayville. It’s an unflinching yet deeply empathetic portrait of girlhood, resilience, and survival in a fractured world. Kamanee joins us to talk
INTERVIEW: AUTHOR ERIN TORKELSON (opens the original)
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Today on Styleskoops, we’re joined by Erin Torkelson, a human geographer whose new book, Predatory Welfare: How Finance Capital Profiteers from Social Grants, offers a powerful, ground-level look at how South Africa’s social grant system has become entangled with debt, finance, and everyday inequality. Drawing on seven years of immersive research with grant recipients, Erin challenges the idea that cash transfers are a simple solution to poverty and asks us to rethink what real economic justice
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