Category: Opinion

By Edward Tsumele, CITYLIFE/ARTS Editor President Cyril Ramaphosa having announced his long awaited Cabinet reshuffle on Monday, different sectors had their own expectations and even anxious as to how their … Read More

Tanya Zack, University of the Witwatersrand Wake Up, This is Joburg is a collaboration between photographer Mark Lewis and urban planner and writer Tanya Zack. Striking images and beautiful texts … Read More

Sanya Osha, University of Cape Town Just weeks before being gunned down in what appeared to be a hit, the South African rapper AKA (Kiernan Forbes) had announced he was … Read More

Sam Challis, University of the Witwatersrand and Brent Sinclair-Thomson, University of the Witwatersrand To “read” the history of times before writing, scholars have traditionally used excavated evidence. Remains like dwellings, … Read More

By Edward Tsumele, CITYLIFE/ARTS Editor When the revolutionary died in April 1993, the event drove the country to a knife edge. Several voices called for the suspension of the then … Read More

Lyombe Eko, Texas Tech University One of Cameroon’s most influential music stars – Jean-Paul Zé Bella – passed away on 15 January at the age of 71 after a battle … Read More

Sisanda Nkoala, Cape Peninsula University of Technology This year marks 100 years since radio was introduced in South Africa, through “the first experimental broadcast at the Railway Headquarters in Johannesburg” … Read More