• Leila Dee Dougan

Rejecting how African products are marketed to Westerners.

• Rustum Kozain

James Matthews has the distinction of being one of the first Black Consciousness poets and publishers in South Africa. He is the subject of a documentary by director Shelley Barry.

• Dylan Valley

The progressive rock of The Brother Moves On is a great case study for why the category of "world music" is at best dated, and at worst problematic.

• Duane Jethro

The struggle over the price of bread in South Africa is the struggle for adequate nourishment, and securing the right of the poor to flourish.

• Zachary Levenson

The last third or so of Director Phil Harrison’s film about Irish multinationals in South Africa suffers from needless flattening.

• Leila Dee Dougan

District Six was the start of a really vibrant, none racial South African and that’s why it had to die.

• Ts'eliso Monaheng

An interview with hip hop scholar, Adam Haupt, about hip hop pioneers P.O.C., the viral rappers Die Antwoord and the state of contemporary South African hip-hop.

• Sabelo Mkhabela

A short profile of the music scene in Cape Town is dominated by white shows – with a lot of electrocentric music and flashy strobe lights.

• Ts'eliso Monaheng

• Dylan Valley

• Suren Pillay

"Jazzing" on the Cape Flats, almost similar to salsa as developed in New York City. It's the dominant sound of parties in Cape Town.

• Duane Jethro

The writer went for a visit and found Stellenbosch, a Western Cape town that is home to one of South Africa's universities, strange, interesting and also very sad.

• Liduduma'lingani Mqombothi

Who has the right to speak about the late Nigerian Afrobeat king, Fela Kuti, and how is that right earned? Also, what do you exclude? What do you include?

• Sean Henry Jacobs

Pharrell Williams's pop hit, "Happy," is infectious and feel good. But what is it all about really?

• Leila Dee Dougan

An alternative lens on migration stories that are often ignored in the mainstream media.

• Duane Jethro

Nicholas Eppel's photographs of a working class woman's home life in central Cape Town doubles as a chronicle of the city's gentrification.

• Ilham Rawoot

Cape Town's goals: designing a more tourist-friendly European City, while keeping the unwanted and unsightly on the other side of the mountain.

• Andre Marais

If you wish to gain some insight into the turmoil of gangland Cape Town, it's worth starting with the films of Riaan Hendricks and Dylan Valley.

• Palika Makam

Amazwi Wethu in Cape Town, South Africa, teaches its high student members how to advocate for themselves through film and photography.

• Zachary Rosen

The Johannesburg-based crew challenges the status quo in South Africa with dance.