interview

It’s difficult to believe that the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) was only formed in 2013. In just six years, the party has established itself as a formidable opposition and is the third largest political party in South Africa. Led by the…

Deon Maas packed up his whole life and moved to Berlin with his wife and four dogs to seek new adventures. There, he walks dogs and writes books. His latest offering is called Witboy In Berlin, and is brimming with his musings about the…

The chilling series ‘You’ took Netflix by a storm when it was released in September 2018. It followed a charming bookstore manager whose crush on an aspiring writer turned real sinister real quick.

Nthikeng Mohlele is a highly skilled writer. He constructs and deconstructs words, and sentences in a way that leaves that reader begging for me. In his latest and sixth book Illumination, Mohlele takes the reader into the interesting and…

Author and social activist Jackie Phamotse has learned from her mistakes on social media and wrote a book so you can too. Phamotse set tongues wagging last year when she got dragged to court for a series of tweets. In the tweets, …

Universities are often claimed to be microcosms of society with people saying understanding universities means understanding society. Rekgotsofetse Chikane says that’s not true especially at previously white universities which are bad…

Fadel Tamimi thrusts his smartphone into my face to show me a gory video of doctors removing a bullet from his 15-year-old son's head. The rubber-coated metal bullet was lodged in Mohammed Tamimi's skull after an Israeli soldier shot him in…

Former Fees Must Fall (FMF) activist and student leader Mcebo Dlamini will contest for the position of African National Congress Youth League (ANCYL) presidency this weekend. While students support his contestation, political analyst Dr…

In a collision of the real and the imaginary, five Swazi children tell the story of Liyana: their very own fictional character as she journeys to rescue her young twin brothers. Guided by legendary South African storyteller Gcina Mhlophe,…

We are all familiar with the figure Stephen Bantu Biko or Steve Biko, but are we familiar with his ideas, his writings and his legacy? And what does Biko mean to us in the present? From September 20 to October 5, Joburg Theatre presents…

Called To Song is academic Kharnita Mohamed’s debut novel. It delves into issues of race, gender and identity in post-apartheid South Africa. Mohamed’s personal politics and personal experiences colour the brilliant story of a woman who…

If you haven’t eagerly been following the adventures of South African superhero Kwezi, you’re seriously missing out. In 2014, Loyiso Mkize created Kwezi, about a 19-year-old city boy who discovers he has super powers. Together with…

You might know Chidera Eggerue as The Slumflower, the British-Nigerian blogger who fuses fashion and politics on her award-winning blog. Maybe you know her as the woman who inadvertently started a social movement around body positivity when…

Migrant workers around the world work in very dangerous conditions and live in even worst conditions. The Workers Cup is a documentary by director Adam Sobel which looks at the migrant workers and labourers who are working in Qatar building…

A funeral is an important symbolic ritual. It brings together friends and family in a celebration of life, a grief of loss and an expression of beliefs, thoughts and feelings about losing a loved one. Nozizwe Cynthia Jele’s latest book…

Children’s cinema brings learning opportunities to countries like South Africa - where the education system is in crisis, and most young school-leavers aren’t literate enough to navigate our media-saturated world. According to Charlotte…

Animation is a dynamic and exciting field, but it’s a highly-skilled profession that makes it difficult to get into. Three-dimensional generalist Thomas Kutschera who is part of the team at Pixomondo who design the special effects and…

“My books are always an observation of where I am at that particular point in my life, what I’m experiencing personally or just my observations,” novelist Nozizwe Cynthia Jele said in an interview with The Daily Vox. Jele’s…

Soheir Abdel Kader is an Egyptian film festival expert. Among her many career accomplishments and designations, she is the founder and president of both the Awladna International Forum for Arts of the Gifted and the Afro-Chinese Arts and…