Graffiti artist Falko Starr finishes a mural in the Cape Flats area of Cape Town.
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It’s been in existence since the 1500s but the Kaaps language, synonymous with Cape Town, has never had a dictionary until now.
Detail of the poster And the People Vote for Nelson Mandela.
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Four decades later, post-apartheid South Africa barely recalls the Medu Art Ensemble’s contributions to the liberation struggle. But that could be changing.
Detail from the cover of the book Surfacing.
Wits University Press
Undocumented for decades, black South African feminists are increasingly visible. The essays in Surfacing present 22 leading thinkers.
Mural by Gabriel Marques, Dublin.
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It took black folk unimaginable resources of creativity, humanity, humour and generosity to detoxify the N-word for their own collective sanity.
The Fugard Theatre’s revival of the South African musical King Kong in 2017.
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The independent theatre will be a monument to how a failed department of arts and culture could not match state support with public philanthropy.
Sindiwe Magona at home.
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A literary icon, her autobiographies offer a way of understanding the country’s brutal past in order to heal and move forward.
Angolan dance troupe Fenómenos do Semba.
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During the coronavirus pandemic the Jerusalema dance challenge enacted a way for communities to connect - repetitive enough to be picked up and varied enough to tease.