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In the entrance of Goodman Gallery Thabiso Sekgala's Tiger, selected from his series Second Transition confronts visitors. The direct,...

"The camera’s rendering of reality must always hide more than it discloses". Susan Sontag Long shadows cast along an urban landscape,...

Intervals of dreaming help us to stand up under days of work… What the memoir writer remembers is not the same thing the poet remembers. He ...

Which stories would I highlight - the underground anecdotes and thrillers; the days and nights of love and war; the weapons I car...

Kewpie was a hairdresser and celebrated queer figure from District Six. She was born in 1941 and identified as gender fluid according to ava...

You never know where the decisions you make will take you. Back in 2011, I got a few friends together to start a blog that would focus on th...

As your body descends into the underground the darkness slowly caresses your cheek. You are met by a crude yet unflinching interior as you t...

One of my favorite hidden gems in Joburg just so happens to also be a “tribute to South Africa’s punk and alternative scene” past! On Jan s...

“There are venues and there are institutions”, I was once told: a friend attempting to draw categories in Johannesburg’s night-time cartogra...

Run your finger through the history of techno and you will eventually come to the source: Belleville, Detroit in the mid-1980s. It was here ...

‘In two more years, my sweetheart, we will see another view’. Bloc Party lyrics that once punctuated the playlist of a monthly Newtown party...

Durban is a city that is constantly evacuated, reconstituted, and returned to; kids throw their lives into bags and haul pieces of themselve...