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Profile: Castaways – Hitting the sweet spot

Profile: Khongolose Khommanding Khomissars – The khorrupt get their just desserts

A Fool’s Guide: Buckland takes on the tech bros

Schlenter & Chaff: Jozi underworld gets theatremaxxed

The beauty of small things

Gregory Maqoma’s Genesis: Black is the colour of our beginning

Cottonwool Kid: Clown’s up to scratch

Month: June 2020

Loftiness of lucidity in the Vuma Levin Show
Music

Loftiness of lucidity in the Vuma Levin Show

Percy Mabandu 30th June 2020

There’s a clinical clarity to the music of guitarist, Vuma Levin. It underpins the refreshing lucidity of his performance at this year’s Standard Bank Jazz Festival and the Virtual National … Read More

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Jigsaw makes the vastness a little more bearable
Theatre

Jigsaw makes the vastness a little more bearable

David Mann 30th June 2020

“Hey! How’s it going? You there? Hello? Can you hear me?” It’s the opening line to virtual conferencing calls across the globe. The faulty video, the delayed audio, the usual … Read More

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The Enlightening Work of Grief in Unfathomable
Theatre

The Enlightening Work of Grief in Unfathomable

Nondumiso Msimanga 30th June 2020

Grief can be a gentle process of learning how to live with your ancestors; not just with loss. Unfathomable whispers into the tissues you would use to hold the weight … Read More

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Making Grace Amazing: Songs of resistance
Film

Making Grace Amazing: Songs of resistance

Nkgopoleng Moloi 30th June 2020

…the semiotics of the slave ship continue: from the forced movements of the enslaved to the forced movements of the migrant and the refugee, to the regulation of Black people … Read More

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Woolworths in your earbuds
Theatre

Woolworths in your earbuds

David Mann 30th June 2020

Since its inception, Juliet Jenkin’s choral play, Woolworths, has been staged in venues across the country. This year’s Virtual National Arts Festival marks the play’s debut in its new format … Read More

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Schlenter & Chaff: Jozi underworld gets theatremaxxed

Rosa-Karoo Loewe 16th May 2026Comment on Schlenter & Chaff: Jozi underworld gets theatremaxxed

An explosion of fists and kicks and arses out, this duo of Jozi skelms rip off the city’s criminal underbelly by being doff and having cash. Schlenter & Chaff, a … Read More

Music

The beauty of small things

Steve Kretzmann 26th March 20263 Comments on The beauty of small things

In a world scarred by ecocide, Lizzie Gaisford’s finely crafted debut solo album calls us to attend to what remains There’s got to be a word for that specific kind … Read More

Dance

Gregory Maqoma’s Genesis: Black is the colour of our beginning

Steve Kretzmann 20th February 2026Comment on Gregory Maqoma’s Genesis: Black is the colour of our beginning

We are literally rewriting history. Through testimonies, poems, plays, novels, and performances such as Gregory Maqoma’s Genesis: The Beginning and End of Time, which had its world premier at The … Read More

Theatre

Cottonwool Kid: Clown’s up to scratch

Steve Kretzmann 25th September 2025Comment on Cottonwool Kid: Clown’s up to scratch

Toni Morkel provides a mix of introspection and humour that pulls the curtain aside on childhood anxiety Childhood, with its constant bombardment of the new, its lack of understanding of … Read More

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Schlenter & Chaff: Jozi underworld gets theatremaxxed

Steve Kretzmann 26th March 2026

The beauty of small things

Steve Kretzmann 20th February 2026

Gregory Maqoma’s Genesis: Black is the colour of our beginning

Steve Kretzmann 25th September 2025

Cottonwool Kid: Clown’s up to scratch

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