Oratile Mashazi

Oratile Mashazi / Features

Mashayabhuqe, the Modern Maskandi intersects tradition and the avant-garde to capture the millennial mood

Mashaya shows up to Father Coffee just a few minutes late for our interview and he quickly allows me into the landscape of his life these da...

Oratile Mashazi / art&culture

Live from Berlin: FAKA performing Bottoms Revenge and writing love letters to black men

2016 has been the year of FAKA. The creative duo of Desire Marea and Fela Gucci have outdone themselves and broken cultural ground with...

Oratile Mashazi / art&culture

For lessons in liberation from late nights in Camden, see Robert Lang’s Filthy and Gorgeous

Youth, drink and beauty are the currency of late nights the world over. But with all this some people still seem to be having more fun than ...

Oratile Mashazi / music

Premiere: Swishy Delta drops ‘Bronwynne’, exlcusively with Bubblegum Club

Today we drop an exclusive to settle you into the crisp, cold months ahead. Coming out of one of the coolest label in Cape Town, Swishy Delt...

Oratile Mashazi / Features

Rharha Nembhard; NoirWave’s visual powerhouse

The Drone Goddess is on a mission to live her truth, using her gifts to obliterate boundaries and silence stereotypes. The curator of  NoirW...

Oratile Mashazi / music

The rise and rise of Moonchild Sanelly

My first meeting with Moonchild was in Cape Town, she performed at the legendary Cold Turkey and won me over with her energy and openness. H...

Oratile Mashazi / music

Watch Daniel Haaksman featuring Spoek Mathambo in Akabongi, an inner city intersection of art, internet and hustle

Art and technology have this shared power to transcend their original context, creating new contexts, and new worlds within which they can b...

Oratile Mashazi / Features

LootLove is a true original! She talks to us about the super power in being yourself

Luthando Shosha, is consistently immaculate, while it is part of her profession to look good, she does this while always looking like hersel...

Oratile Mashazi / fashion

For the love of Hip Hop; recapping 2016’s Back to the City Festival

Back to the city is a Johannesburg institution, a hip hop festival celebrating urban music and street culture in one of the world's most not...

Oratile Mashazi / Photography

Thesis Lifestyle celebrates a decade in the game!

Thesis is a Johannesburg institution. From fashion and retail to events and socially oriented initiatives the brand has grown from strength ...

Oratile Mashazi / Photography

Bubblegum Club and British Council collaborate on Connect ZA’s new look, linking the past, present and future

British Council Connect ZA is a cultural programme working across the UK and SA. They are reimaginging their visual identity with BubblegumC...

Oratile Mashazi / Photography

Jet Life: Dope St. Jude’s global hustle and contribution to black knowledge production

Monday April 10th saw Dope St. Jude and Kyla Phil, pulling up in Roeland street to scoop me en route to Dope St's birthday dinner. We sped o...