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The seventh Hey Hillbrow! Let’s Dlala! procession will turn more than 350 children and young people into a living flock of public artists moving through the streets of Hillbrow.
25 Jul 20263 min read
The major Cape Town exhibition gathers more than 20 years of Zanele Muholi’s work around visibility, memory, Black LGBTQIA+ life and collective care.
19 Jul 20265 min read
Through collage, archival imagery, Dinaane and Ditoro, Johannesburg-based artist Tshepiso Moropa reopens photographic archives as living spaces where memory, dreams, family and Setswana knowledge can be rearranged.
13 Jul 20262 min read
With 2026 nominations open through the DSAC-backed National Arts and Culture Awards platform, NACA’s wider category framework pushes South African creative recognition beyond music, celebrity and screen visibility.
09 Jul 20261 min read
Vuyelwa Maluleke’s The Blue Album uses monologue, movement and fractured memory to confront corrective rape, township silence and the difficult meaning of home for Black lesbian women.
30 Jun 20261 min read
At the Standard Bank Art Lab, Rumours/2026 reactivates Santu Mofokeng’s quiet, radical insistence that Black life must be seen beyond trauma, spectacle and official archives.
22 Jun 20261 min read
Tyla has moved beyond viral fame into global cultural permanence, carrying South African sound, style, and pop identity into fashion, music, and the world’s biggest stages.
22 May 20263 min read