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Ahead of his intimate performance at Jazz at Jozi Gold, Vusi Mahlasela reflects on healing through music, the responsibility of being “The Voice” and the questions shaping his forthcoming album.
23 Jul 20267 min read
The first official images from Children of Blood and Bone place Thuso Mbedu at the centre of a live-action fantasy world built around African characters, mythology, power and political conflict.
20 Jul 20263 min read
More than two decades after Disney introduced a generation to coordinated tracksuits, fearless friendship and Cheetah-licious confidence, The Cheetah Girls is roaring back to life — this time on South African soil.
20 Jul 20269 min read
Bajabulise Thela’s path to Miss Universe South Africa 2026 is not a story of instant transformation, but of pageantry experience, professional training, community work and a new route into the global competition.
20 Jul 20263 min read
Lordkez’s On The Radar performance places South African alternative R&B inside one of New York’s most recognisable music-performance spaces without forcing her to abandon the sound she built at home.
20 Jul 20262 min read
ZuluMecca’s “7 Colours” brings Priddy Ugly and Loatinover Pounds to the same table, turning a familiar South African food metaphor into a sharp collaboration between three distinct rap identities.
20 Jul 20262 min read
Liesl Penniken’s “This Is Who I Am” is not a clean break from Jamali, but a solo statement unfolding beside the group’s renewed activity.
20 Jul 20262 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
After believing his acting career might be over, Abdul Khoza has returned to television through Uzalo as Ma-Ten-Ten, a character that connects his comeback to KwaMashu, Stained Glass Productions and a first-season role transformed by time.
19 Jul 20264 min read
With MaWhoo and Babalwa M confirmed on A*POP, Tyla’s forthcoming second album places South African women inside the primary version of her global pop era rather than leaving them to the margins of remixes or regional editions.
18 Jul 20263 min read
Calvin Fallo’s nearly seven-minute house record has become one of South Africa’s strongest slow-burning streaming successes, proving that patience, repetition and groove still have room inside the modern chart economy.
17 Jul 20263 min read
Nico Scheepers’ stark, black-and-white psychological horror has become the first African film to win Neuchâtel’s highest honour, offering another emphatic sign that South African cinema is ready for the world.
16 Jul 20264 min read
The legendary South African actor, musician and storyteller has died at the age of 63, leaving behind a body of work that helped shape the country’s stage and screen culture.
16 Jul 20263 min read
At 81 De Korte Street, Linda Sikhakhane returns to the former Orbit stage where he first presented himself as a bandleader, before Vusi Mahlasela follows with a catalogue that has carried South African memory across the world.
15 Jul 20265 min read
Northern Academy Secondary School’s No Escape turned Oedipus Rex into a South African cautionary tale of power, loyalty and fate — and left the 2026 Curro Create National Youth Theatre Festival as Best Production.
14 Jul 20266 min read
Zakes Bantwini, Jesse Clegg and Msaki’s 2026 house reinterpretation of “The Crossing (Osiyeza)” brings Johnny Clegg’s grief-marked South African classic into a new communal dance-floor environment without severing it from its original memory.
13 Jul 20262 min read
Through fellowships, dive labs, eKhaya and Africa Refocused support, NEWF is changing who gets to tell African wildlife stories by training African filmmakers, scientists, divers, composers and conservation storytellers.
13 Jul 20262 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