Condolences to the Mbangeni family

Asphelelangahelelanga k’shot uJessica bethunana! Ngoxolo Ndlovukazi. Ngoxolo Gubevu 🙏🏾 Silapha nathi kungenxayakho. Tshosh’ubekhona. Sibulela siziimbongi. Sibulela singabafazi. Sithi buyela emalwandle Mnt’omdala, umsebenzi uyabonakala 🙏🏾🕯️💜

Silila nani booMbangeni. Sicela Amawenu anigcine athuthuzele nabantwana.

Ngothando,
Usapho lempepho press

Folklore Festival 2024, Friday, 30 Aug

Folklore Festival 2024 FRINGE JHB: SPOKEN WORD
with vangile gantsho & MoAfrika Wa Mokgthi

Join the inter-generational conversation on our creative platform #WeTheFolk for 30 days of Contemplating 30 years of Freedom in 3 Cities on 30 August 2024 at the NSA Theatre

Fri Aug 30, 19:00 – 23:30
NSA Theatre, Tyrwhitt Ave & Cradock Ave, Rosebank, Johannesburg

Book: Quicket
Folklore community:

Busisiwe Mahlangu attends the IOWA Graduate College International Writing Program 2023

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Busisiwe Mahlangu is a poet, playwright, fiction writer; South African

Busisiwe Mahlangu is the author of Surviving Loss, a 2018 poetry collection also adapted for theater. She was awarded the inaugural South Africa National Poetry Prize, has had work longlisted for the Sol Plaatje European Union Poetry Award, and is published in KalahariAtlanta Review20.35 Africa, Best ‘New’ African Poets, and elsewhere. In 2022, she was a fellow at the Johannesburg Institute for Advanced Study. Her participation is made possible by the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs at the U.S. Department of State.

Source: IOWA Graduate College

Feminist exhibition conceptualised by Danai Mupotsa and others

Feminism ya Mang, Feminism Yethu, Feminism Yani curated by Samantha Modisenyane and Masechaba Moloi, and conceptualised by Samantha Modisenyane and Masechaba Moloi in collaboration with Danai Mupotsa, Motlatsi Khosi and Lindiwe Mngxitama.

NWU Gallery and the Goethe Institut presents feminism exhibition in celebration of Women’s Month. Feminism ya Mang, Feminism Yethu, Feminism Yani is the visual exploration on how we define womanhood, sexuality, age, and feminism, key themes that come with such an engagement, and the ways in which notions on gender and queerness can redefine our understandings. By engaging with this complexity, the exhibition aims to celebrate the diversity of knowledge that contributes to our regional experience of feminisms. 

Read more at BizCommunity

vangile gantsho included in an anthology of protest poetry

In Years of Fire and Ash: South African Poems of Decolonisation, more than 50 years of protest poetry are gathered in a single volume, bringing together some of the most remarkable and thought-provoking poems that have emerged from struggle.

https://www.timeslive.co.za/sunday-times/books/fiction/2021-03-15-50-years-of-powerful-protest-poetry/