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There are theatre productions that grab you by the throat in the first five minutes and refuse to let go. Then there are those that ask you to sit still, lean in and do the labour of remembering alongside them. Rise ’76, the ambitious new commemorative work by Tiisetso Mashifane wa Noni, belongs firmly in…
Billy Monama says The Rebirth of Ubuntu is about memory. The concert he founded and curates is now preparing for its fifth edition at the Joburg Theatre on May 29 and 30. Over two nights, a line-up that includes Lira, Zoë Modiga and Vusi Nova will perform alongside a 20-piece orchestra in a production that…
Two lauded South African films will bookend the Joburg Film Festival when it returns from 3–8 March 2026, opening and closing the city’s flagship cinematic event with stories rooted firmly in local history, myth and memory. Opening the festival on 3 March is Laundry (Uhlanjululo), the debut feature from Zamo Mkhwanazi, fresh from its international…
If, like myself, you have long reached unc status, you might remember that the visuals for Zakes Bantwini’s Wasting My Time | Clap Your Hands (2013) were utterly goated back then. Sonically, vernacular rhythms, buoyant synths, and percussive claps lock into a mantra that nods to African call-and-response while translating straight into global groove culture. …