‘I’m broken and my only sin was being a woman’ – Gabrielle Goliath’s survivors | Photography
[ad_1] The event that shaped Gabrielle Goliath’s life as an artist happened when she was nine years old: a schoolfriend was killed in an act of domestic violence, the details of which have never been clear. “It would have been an accident,” she says, from her home in Johannesburg, 30 years on. “But, you know, […]
Riding With Anti-Smuggling Militia on South Africa’s Diamond Coast
[ad_1] The shooting begins, and it’s softer than I anticipated, dampened by the dunes. Some birds are shot right in their cages. Others, startled, descend to the beach and are shot where they land. They are too slow to lift off, too slow to escape. Over the pops, the men posture and cheer. They keep […]
‘It blew our minds’: the surfers who braved sharks to ride Africa’s mightiest wave | Books
[ad_1] To surf Africa’s biggest wave, which rises to 50ft and crashes down on waters filled with great white sharks, you first need to take a boat out into the clashing currents of Cape Town’s Hout Bay. Then you jump into the maelstrom, paddle like crazy towards the deafening roar of breakwater, and suddenly it’s […]
Legacies of apartheid: Jo Ractliffe’s South Africa – in pictures | Art and design
[ad_1] Crossroads, 1986 ‘One day in 1986, when photographing in Crossroads, my eyes met those of a white dog slinking around a pile of discarded boxes and rubbish. Soon after that encounter, I came across Ryszard Kapuściński’s 1976 book Another Day of Life, about the events leading up to Angola’s independence and subsequent civil war. […]
‘This feels like a breakthrough’: comedian Loyiso Gola on his new Netflix show | Comedy
[ad_1] It’s not every day a comedian can claim to have made history. Step forward Loyiso Gola, whose new Netflix show – its first ever standup special from Africa – was released this week. But if you’re looking for some expression of pride or excitement about that, Gola’s not your man. “It is meaningful,” he […]
“Independent Entity” With Canopy Roots Launches Contract Farming in Lesotho
[ad_1] CANNABIS CULTURE – Highlands Investments (formerly Canopy Africa) has launched Africa´s cannabis contract farming platform called Canna-Tract. What this will mean for Africa’s cannabis cultivators has yet to be determined. Name-changing spree Canopy Growth, a Canadian cannabis corporation headquartered in Ontario, and formerly called Tweed Marijuana Inc, has now assumed the name Highlands Investments. […]
Jonas Gwangwa, South African jazz musician and activist, dies aged 83 | Jazz
[ad_1] Jonas Gwangwa, the Oscar-nominated South African jazz musician who campaigned against apartheid for decades, has died aged 83. The cause of death has not been announced. South African president Cyril Ramaphosa led tributes, saying: A giant of our revolutionary cultural movement and our democratic creative industries has been called to rest; the trombone that […]
From Beyoncé to the Oscars: Mary Twala, Africa’s queen of cinema | Film
[ad_1] Mary Twala died just a few weeks before Beyoncé’s Black Is King came out. In the film, the 80-year-old embodied the story’s shaman figure, the last part she’d ever play in a six-decade career. The deep lines of her face, white paint over her eyes and red beads covering her head, made a striking […]
