The value of women’s labour: Being a writer, woman and mother...
The third day of Time of the Writer was an explosion of literary magic as libraries and schools across Durban featured talented writers discussing...
Time of the Writer brings writers to the people in KwaMashu...
On the second day of The Time of the Writer festival in Durban, participants visited KwaZulu-Natal’s schools and libraries to bring the writing to...
Powerful plea sent to Radiohead over Israel concert
A petition and video have emerged online asking British rock band Radiohead to cancel its concert tour to Israel.
The Change.org petition, started by the...
Remembering the SS Mendi and Shaka the Great at Time of...
The focus of Time of the Writer 2017 is on indigenous languages, the short story and the intersection of film and literature - and...
20 years and more to come: the past paving the future...
The Time of the Writer literary festival has entered its 20th year. Last year’s festival featured some of South Africa’s best writers gathered together...
Moonlight: When Black and Queer America won an Oscar
“This goes out to all those black and brown boys and girls and non-gender-conforming who don't see themselves.†–
Tarell Alvin McCraney, accepting the 2017...
Ten poems by black women the world needs to read right...
The world is a scary and uncertain space right now, fraught with fragility, and sometimes it's just too much to cope with. We get...
It’s not all sweet sounds in the music industry’s White Boys’...
This is the second and final part of a series by musician, Cami Scoundrel. Read Part 1 here.Â
Conversations about the White Boys’ Club erupt...
The film industry needs to do better for women in 2017
With movies such as Rogue One and Zootopia dominating with female leads, you'd think 2016 was a good year for women in the film...
It’s not all sweet sounds in the music industry’s White Boys’...
It’s difficult to talk about racial politics, gender politics and structural inequality in South Africa without someone getting offended. It’s difficult to say “White...
Exhibition aimed at empowering women does everything but
Since its opening, the Our Lady exhibition in Cape Town has encountered some problems. From artists calling for their works to be taken down,...
Dear 2016: thank you for teaching us these important lessons
Dear 2016,
It’s almost time to bid you farewell and our timelines are filled with tweets and statuses expressing glee at seeing the back of...
Young filmmakers shine at the Abantu Book Festival
The Abantu Book Festival kicked off this week at Soweto’s Eyethu Lifestyle Centre. On Friday afternoon The Youth Filmmaker project (which provides young graduates...
“Sandcastle crafting saved me from drugs and criminal activities”
Mfanafuthi Gumede, a 26-year-old sandcastle artist from Inanda, North Durban found himself wandering the streets of the city after dropping out of school. He...
Diwali 2016 is set to be a Bollywood blockbuster weekend
Sunday 30 October is set to mark Diwali, the Hindu Festival of Lights which symbolically celebrates the triumph of light over darkness, good over...
Ruth First 2016: Our reflections on rage and violence
The Ruth First Memorial Lecture was, once again, extraordinary. Each speaker presenting on the theme, “Rage and Violence in our Politics†produced papers that...
We need to speak about the state of arts in South...
After attending the National Arts Festival in Grahamstown, MALEBO GOLOLO needs to get something off her chest about the state of the arts in...
Five black characters bringing much-needed diversity to the comic book universe
We're all about diversity and representation in the comic book universe, so the news that a black, female teenager will be replacing Tony Stark...
Do you even know Bongani Madondo?
He's launched a new book and he's 🔥🔥 🔥 but who is he?
1. He writes for himself
Madondo doesn’t try to appease a particular market, whether his readers...
Niq Mhlongo’s Affluenza embraces South Africans’ lived experiences
South Africa's democracy has come a long way since its formative years. But twenty years on and there are still many issues which have...
