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Brazil is a country afraid of Edgar

Rich Mnisi’s ‘Nyoka’ at Southern Guild | beauty distilled

Maeta chronicles her growth through EP, ‘Habits’

Shanti Cullis’ ‘Primate’ | capturing lived experiences of the East

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/ Opportunities / 1 day ago

Bubblegum Residency No. 6 | Curators

Lee Nxumalo

/ music / 4 days ago

Maeta chronicles her growth through EP, ‘Habits’

Zahra Doola

/ Art / 5 days ago

Going beyond introspection with the group exhibition ‘Bathini Abafazi ?’

Ode

/ Features / 5 days ago

Brazil is a country afraid of Edgar

Joy Anelisiwe Mahamba

/ music / 6 days ago

Ayra Starr’s ‘19 & Dangerous’: The debut album that speaks to a generation

Nkgopoleng Moloi

/ fashion / 6 days ago

Rich Mnisi’s ‘Nyoka’ at Southern Guild | beauty distilled

Odwa Zamane

/ Community / 1 week ago

4 My Girls: cultivating a safe community for femme creatives to belong

Denzel Nyathi

/ fashion / 1 week ago

Carol Lindiwe Bouwers and other black names for luxury

Casey Delport

/ music / 1 week ago

Shanti Cullis’ ‘Primate’ | capturing lived experiences of the East

Joy Anelisiwe Mahamba

/ music / 2 weeks ago

Muzi’s videos are stunning visual preludes to the upcoming album

Joy Anelisiwe Mahamba

/ music / 2 weeks ago

At the intersection of technology and music with GLOR1A and ‘Metal’

Casey Delport

/ fashion / 2 weeks ago

BROKE // breaking down barriers and building something special

SA POP ARCHIVE

Casey Delport / Pop Archive

iJusi // ‘rainbow nation’ media cultures

A glance at the contemporary media landscape in South Africa conjures up images of newsstands littered with political scandal, criminally bad tabloid journalism and bland design after bland design. It’s no wonder that mainstream media can often leave a sour taste in consumers’ mouths as it’s all too apparent that these publications, both online and...

Lindiwe Mngxitama / Pop Archive

Bubblegum disco era icon Condry Ziqubu’s ‘Gorilla Man’ | an Afrosynth release

While Condry Ziqubu’s rise as a star of South Africa’s ‘bubblegum’ disco era may have appeared rapid, before his big break as a solo artist in 1983, Ziqubu had already been working professionally in the music industry for 15 years. A regular on the local soul scene since the late 1960s in groups such as...

Lindiwe Mngxitama and Kneo Mokgopa / Pop Archive

Middle Centre: on V Mash, radical Black aesthetic production and those honoured only in death

The text that is to follow is an exercise of sorts between writer Kneo Mokgopa and myself. An attempt at writing together from afar and from places of familiar difference, of Vinolia Mashego, who was affectionally known as V Mash to us and the rest of the nation. To write of her in remembrance and...

Marcia Elizabeth / Pop Archive

‘Epitaphs and Dreams’, Poems by a Revolutionary in Exile

Which stories would I highlight – the underground anecdotes and thrillers; the days and nights of love and war; the weapons I carried (a Makarov in my shoulder bag in Gaborone, the AK next to my bed in Lusaka) – “a gun in trained hands is knowledge, its hinges and oily places as intimate as a...