Black Coffee and Sun-El musician surprise revellers on Reconciliation Day

Unathi Kondile|Published

Experience the vibrant atmosphere of the ComUnity Festival as Capetonians celebrate Reconciliation Day with top DJs and a lively market.

Kujenga steady progression from Milnerton to Jazz fest to the Samas

Unathi Kondile|Published

They will be performing alongside Thandiswa Mazwai and the Kopano Jazz Collective in and amongst a hive of engaging programmes that include art walkabouts, studio ...

ComUnity: Our Heritage is Groove

Unathi Kondile|Published

The audience was young, hip and above-all diverse. Their following has surpassed colour.

Journalism: A static profession in an evolved world

Unathi Kondile|Published

Anyone running a media company or a newsroom today should treat each and every aspect of what they produce and their journalists' time as commodities.

Joburg art fair: Stand-outs and oddities

Unathi Kondile|Updated

Johannes Phokela really is South Africa’s modern-day renaissance painter, his latest Seven Virtues paintings, presented by Eclectica Contemporary gallery really ...

Cape Town art galleries light up Joburg Art Fair stage

Unathi Kondile|Published

Africa’s longest running art fair opens up the city of Johannesburg with art, music, performances, food and fashion for 16 full days before and after the actual ...

Mazwai’s on-stage fellowship mesmerises

Unathi Kondile|Updated

It becomes a spiritual fellowship session that works well for Thandiswa, who admits to being extremely nervous every time she has to come on to a stage.

50 years on, future remains bright for National Arts Festival

Unathi Kondile|Updated

Festival can be quite a daunting exercise owing to its scale.

Eastern Cape's Umtiza Arts Festival’ growing beautifully progressively

Unathi Kondile|Published

Named after the spiny Eastern Cape tree with prominent glossy dark green foliage, the festival is now in its ninth year since inception.

Cheers as Simondium microbrewery scoops Best Beer in Africa

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In the heart of the Cape Winelands, a stone’s throw away from Franschhoek, lies a brewery built within the old tank walls of the former Drakenstein Co-operative ...

Dinner With a difference raises blind awareness in the dark

Unathi Kondile|Published

“This is your chair, hold on to it and take a seat,” he said, as he took the next guest's hand.

Othello finds African resonance in 2024

Unathi Kondile|Published

Imagine Shakespearean English, with a dash of Afrikaans and IsiXhosa.

How did Khoisan become so forgotten?

Unathi Kondile|Published

There are murmurs of this opening ceremony being done to bring about calm, following the previous day’s emotionally charged proceedings.

Investec Cape Town Art Fair shines

Unathi Kondile|Published

There was an underlying theme of inclusion, empathy and cultural signifiers – a welcome move away from the snootiness and elitism often associated with the art scene. ...

‘What is yours is mined’ on the heels of the Mining Indaba

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At the same time there is a mining art exhibition in the far-flung hills of Durbanville, titled What is Yours is Mined, by painter Jeannette Unite, at the Rust-en-Vrede ...

Lalah Hathaway blows fans away at Kirstenbosch

Unathi Kondile|Published

There I was ensconced at the recently-manured Kirstenbosch National Botanical Gardens, eagerly waiting to see Donny Hathaway's 55-year-old daughter on stage.

Visit the Eastern Cape

Unathi Kondile|Published

I have just left the Eastern Cape. For good. Again. But I insist that you do please visit the Eastern Cape.

#FreedomDay: 'Freedom means nothing to the people of Makhanda'

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On Saturday, President Ramaphosa delivered a keynote address that acknowledging the forebears of South Africa?s freedom.

Late judge Essa Moosa honoured

Unathi Kondile|Published

?My father would say unless we take the justice system with us, we will end up in trouble. We cannot wait another 20 years to transform the judiciary. ?

Indima yemifanekiso eqingqiweyo

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Xeshikweni ndingumfundi pha kulaDyunivesithi yaseKapa (UCT) kwakukho into endingazange ndayiqwalasela, ngumfanekiso oqingqiweyo kaCecil John Rhodes. Eyam indima ...

Bekucingwa ukuba siyadlala xeshikweni sisithi siyeza nyani neliphepha

Unathi Kondile|Published

Lilo ke eli. Kwaye siyanimema ukuba nithathe inxaxheba, nisibhalele rhoqo, sikhe sibone ukuba asinokukwazi na ukudala iphepha lesiXhosa elomeleleyo.

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Unathi Kondile|Published

Nali zidwesha; iphephandaba lesiXhosa lemihla ngemihla lokuqala. Mvulo, Lwesibini, Lwesithathu, Lwesine nangoLwesihlanu lakube likwiivenkile.