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

Unathi Kondile|Published

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

Unathi Kondile|Published

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.

Pregnant with news? Print first, digital can be induced later

Unathi Kondile|Published

As media outside Independent Media we must congratulate Piet Rampedi and his team for showing us that scoops still exist.

23 March 2020: the day SA journalism died

Unathi Kondile|Published

It came as no surprise, the symptoms were there: from shortness of Covid-19 in depth analysis to government making it clear that all Covid-19 cases would be confirmed ...

A narrative of rape, power, politics et al

Unathi Kondile|Published

Nomawele Njongo's book details how she was fired from the ANC after accusing then-ANC chief whip Mbulelo Goniwe of sexual assault in 2006 and how she has subsequently ...

Reconciliation Day: Reconciling with the unrepentant

Unathi Kondile|Published

We live in a country where only one race is required to forgive. The strangest part of this forgiveness is that there is an expectation to forgive people who have ...

‘Paper Tiger’ lacks teeth as only details editors’ bitterness and anguish

Unathi Kondile|Published

The book's point of departure is that of an aggrieved senior former employee still trying to reconcile with the reality that she is not indispensable.

Horror at #NationalArtsFestival as magic stunt goes wrong

Unathi Kondile|Published

Audience members, including children, had to be evacuated after a magic act involving a crossbow went horribly wrong.

I do not know who to vote for!

Unathi Kondile|Published

Imagine a 25-year-old enfant terrible. Still learning to walk. Still undergoing potty training, and generally way underdeveloped.

The poor cannot eat land

Unathi Kondile|Published

When you are hungry the last thing on your mind is something as vastly abstract as the land.

Mercury