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30 years of iPendoring: Celebrating language, culture, and creativity in South Africa

As iPendoring celebrates three decades, an Imbizo, awards ceremony and student radio challenge put South Africa’s indigenous ...
CNN

Proudly Ndebele: South Africa’s Zana Masombuka showcases her heritage through modern expressions of art

Raised in a small, rural town called Siyabuswa, in the KwaNdebele region of north-eastern South Africa, Zana Masombuka is on a mission to create art that bridges old and new Africa. Inspired by her ...
The Conversation

South Africa’s bandit slaves and the rock art of resistance

Sam Challis receives funding from the NRF African Origins Platform and is a member of the Bradshaw Foundation Rock Art Network Brent Sinclair-Thomson receives funding from the National Research ...
The Conversation

Rock art: how South Africa’s coat of arms got to feature an ancient San painting

Sam Challis works for Wits University's Rock Art Research Institute. He receives funding from the National Research Foundation African Origins Platform (Grant no. AOP117735). RARI acknowledges the ...
CNN

This artist is painstakingly recreating mysterious ancient rock art – before it’s lost

In the early 1970s, South African summer sun searing his back, 14-year-old Stephen Townley Bassett dutifully followed his uncle into the shade offered by one of myriad caves dotted among the Cederberg ...
The New York Times

Art That Finds Clarity in South Africa’s Fraught Terrain

Igshaan Adams and Bronwyn Katz use abstraction and humble materials to make sense of their country at the Venice Biennale. By Siddhartha Mitter CHICAGO — On a recent afternoon, the artist Igshaan ...