Ghost Writer

Ghost Writer / art&culture

A Womxn’s Dis-ease // reframing ‘disease’ and unpicking the frameworks of cis-heteropatriarchy

Walking into the side entrance of The Point of Order (TPO) I am greeted by varying colours of fabric cutoffs stitched together. Camouflaged ...

Ghost Writer / art&culture

Maria Metsalu // the power of performance art

Maria Metsalu graduated from the School for New Dance Development in Amsterdam in 2016, and takes on the joint roles of artist, performer, c...

Ghost Writer / music

Uncle Partytime converts the dance floor into a space of sonic transcendence

Uncle Partytime is a kid whose dj persona was born out of the scene in Braamfontein, allowing him to be plugged into the sonic shifts that h...

Ghost Writer / music

DJ Okapi and Afrosynth Records; Recovering the origins of electronic music in South Africa

DJ Okapi’s Afrosynth Records, possibly the only record store in the country specialising in South African and African music, recently opened...

Ghost Writer / art&culture

Fear of The Youth Ep4 – high school students weigh in on Fees Must Fall

Fear of The Youth is a new web series about the interests and concerns of Johannesburg youth. The series is produced by filmmaking crew,&nbs...

Ghost Writer / art&culture

The Apocalypse Pantry; a survivor’s guide to happiness in the urban Armageddon

Can we think through the senses? Recognise how systems of control distribute what is sensible, what is knowable, along predetermined traject...

Ghost Writer / art&culture

Umuzi- redefining creative economies through education that is accessible and free!

South Africa is currently in a critical place of rising consciousness, with far-reaching and irrevocable implications for the dismantling of...

Ghost Writer / Features

Anthony Smith- Waar brand dit?

Anthony Smith, founder of South Africa’s most befokte clothing label, 2Bop, has always lived by his own rules and he’s proving that you don’...

Ghost Writer / art&culture

Dismantling imaginative monopolies; Sheetal Magan and the radical new generation of South African filmmakers

Sheetal Magan is part of a new generation of South African filmmakers, immersed in a young context that is already reinventing itself throug...

Ghost Writer / music

Tune-in to Kwelagobe ‘Kwela’ Sekele’s powerful new frequency; Yeoville Radio

Vocalist, song writer and producer Kwelagobe ‘Kwela’ Sekele has been shaking up the South African music scene for over a decade. As visionar...

Ghost Writer / art&culture

The unfiltered confessional and emotive resistance of Banele Khoza’s Temporary Feelings

Banele Khoza is undoubtedly an emerging South African artist to watch; before he had even left university, the Tate panel in Africa had begu...

Ghost Writer / art&culture

Fear of The Youth Episode 3 – Vuyiswa Ntombela’s Charitable Cause

Fear of The Youth is a new web series about the interests and concerns of Johannesburg youth. The series is produced by filmmaking crew, Ger...