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Riason Naidoo

Born in Durban, Riason Naidoo is an independent curator, writer, researcher, and artist. He curated the public art project neuf-3 (2021-23) in Paris, Any Given Sunday (2016) in Cape Town, A Portrait of South Africa: George Hallett, Peter Clarke & Gerard Sekoto (2013) in Paris, 1910-2010: From Pierneef to Gugulective (2010) at the South African National Gallery, The Indian in Drum Magazine in the 1950s (2006) that toured venues in South Africa, exhibitions on Cape Town artist Peter Clarke shown in Dakar, London and Paris (2012-13) and on Durban photographer Ranjith Kally shown in Johannesburg, Durban, Cape Town, Bamako, Vienna, Barcelona and Reunion Island (2004-2011).

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How to unmake the world

In this wide-ranging conversation, para-disciplinary artist Nolan Oswald Dennis reflects on space, time, Blackness, and the limits of Western knowledge—offering a strategy for imagining grounded in African and anti-colonial traditions.

What comes after liberation?

In this wide-ranging conversation, the freedom fighter and former Constitutional Court justice Albie Sachs reflects on law, liberation, and the unfinished work of building a just South Africa.

Coming home

In 1991, acclaimed South African artist Helen Sebidi’s artworks were presumed stolen in Sweden. Three decades later, a caretaker at the residential college where they disappeared found them in a ceiling cupboard, still in their original packaging.

The lesson of the turtle and the dove

The South African musician known as Madosini passed away in 2022. She was one of the last of a generation who learnt to play traditional Xhosa instruments, in so doing sharing the spirituality, dignity, and joy of Xhosa culture through her inimitable song.