For many households in Limpopo, access to water is not a convenience but a daily battle. Families spend hours queuing at communal taps or walking long distances to collect water from boreholes and wells, where animals also drink
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Artistic life is abundant and rich in the outskirts of towns and cities, yet there’s little support to nurture, develop and grow it. These forgotten villages, townships and informal settlements are known to produce the best artists and writers, but often these artists are not well supported outside the urban and cosmopolitan spaces where art life is valued
Beyond luscious hills, neat fields upon neat fields of vegetables and Lesotho’s achingly beautiful landscape is a story of little known 19th-century founder king who forged alliances to maintain peace but humbled each attacker.
Khehla Chepape Makgato’s 19th solo exhibition, TšhipaE Taga Mohlabeng Wa Gayo, covers major art forms including painting, sculpture, photography, literature and music
In its Quarterly Labour Force Survey for Quarter 4, 2025, released early this month, Statistics SA noted that there were approximately 10.3 million young people aged 15–24 years who were not in employment, education, or training during that quarter.
Billions have been spent on water projects, but due to corruption and mismanagement, many of these were never completed. Broken water pipes at what used to be construction sites for these projects stand as poignant monuments to this rot.
The girls were carrying Fela’s records and singing in the minibuses while hanging head and shoulders out of the vehicles’ windows, banging on the side panels. In Frank Karefa-Smart’s Mercedes, following the convoy, we were shaking our heads in utter bafflement.
The widespread destruction of roads and bridges in the recent floods in Limpopo and Mpumalanga is not an accident but the result of years of…
This week marked eight years since the passing of Hugh Masekela – a towering figure in Jazz music and a global symbol of artistic resistance.…
The photographic exhibition I’ll Be Your Mirror is historically and conceptually important, yet it has not received much attention in mainstream South African conversations. Its…