Editorial & Platform Updates
Hey Hillbrow! Let’s Dlala! 2026 will turn Hillbrow’s streets into a living flock of costumes, birdsongs, dance and public art, led by more than 350 children and young people.
NEWF is changing African wildlife storytelling by training African filmmakers, scientists, divers and composers to tell conservation stories from closer to the ecosystems they come from.
Dalin Oliver’s Stuck in Dubai turns a frightening travel ordeal into an Ovation Award-winning comedy show and one of his most ambitious touring projects yet.
FOSTA’s DIFF premiere turns Thulani “Fosta” Headman’s music journey into a wider story about redemption, township creativity and the infrastructure needed to sustain talent.
Woza Albert! returns to The Market Theatre in 2026 with a sharper contemporary sting, asking whether South Africa’s unfinished democratic promises have given Morena another reason to return.
The Polygamist’s Netflix success should have been an uncomplicated victory lap for African storytelling. Instead, alleged book piracy has exposed a painful truth: loving a story cheaply can still damage the author who created it.
House of Zwide’s finale was not only the end of a fashion dynasty. It reminded viewers that soapies still build young actors slowly, publicly and emotionally through years of daily routine.
The Blue Album refuses easy catharsis. Vuyelwa Maluleke’s one-woman performance turns township memory, silence and queer survival into an archive that asks audiences to confront the systems that make harm possible.
Silwerskerm 2026 shows an Afrikaans screen culture that is broadening across films, documentaries, pilots and industry sessions — but it also exposes anxiety around the future of full-length Afrikaans feature films.
