Culture & Lifestyle
Kay Kay Ribane’s The Perfect Serve turns the movement of a tennis serve into a collector’s photography book, showing how African opulence can live in restraint, precision and tactile design.
Mnakwethu Season 5 proves that polygamy has become more than a controversial reality-TV premise in South Africa. It is now a recurring television genre built around marriage, culture, trust and household negotiation.
Trevor Noah’s South Africa’s Festival of Comedy is not just another homecoming show. It turns stand-up into a national-team moment and suggests South Africa could become a bigger continental stage for African comedy.
The National Arts Council’s 2026 funding outcomes show that across Craft, Dance, Literature and Visual Arts, applicants requested R387.6 million. The available budget covered only 3.4% of that value.
Rumours/2026 reminds us why Santu Mofokeng’s photographs still matter: they refuse to flatten Black life into suffering alone, returning dignity, complexity and ordinary domestic memory to the centre of the frame.
Daniel Nyathi’s return to Scandal! is not just a cameo. It is a reminder that proper soapie finales need memory, old shadows and the ghosts of the world viewers have lived with for years.
Basha Uhuru’s 2026 edition turns Youth Month memory into something practical: music, workshops, market access, creative-economy platforms and paid opportunities for young people.
Portchie’s passing marks the loss of one of South Africa’s most recognisable visual artists — a painter whose colourful work made joy, warmth and accessibility feel like artistic courage.
Prince Kaybee’s 600km HiPace Cycle Challenge is more than a cycling story. It is a public act of recovery, discipline and reinvention that expands what artist branding can look like in South Africa.
