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Guest: Ayshegul Ergul - Director for Women Platform For Turquoise Harmony Intitute  

Guest: Alphi Sipho – Content Creator

Guest: Happy Ngidi          

Guest: Dr Lliane Roots        

Guest: Palesa Mazamisa - Show Director   The Market Theatre has curated an undoubtably intriguing season of productions to celebrate Women’s Month with I Am A Woman and Ruined. Every year in August, our country marks Women’s Month, where we pay tribute to the more than 20 000 women who marched to the Union Buildings on 9 August 1956 in protest against the extension of Pass Laws to women. Women’s M...

Guest: Makgati Molebatsi - Arts advisor, Curator and Senior Art Specialist, Aspire Art Auctions. Guest: Mary Corrigall - Mary Corrigall is an art historian, author, journalist and consultant. She established Corrigall & Co in 2016 to further research into the African art The business of art from a perspective of the collection of art. What makes something valuable and collectible? What makes o...

Guest: Salamina Mosese, actor and now author   Salamina has always dreamed of becoming an author but always put it off, when covid 19 hit, she decided to go after her dream and write. Tumi visits her Gogo in Soweto for the holidays. She and her twin cousins often help Gogo in her spaza shop. Gogo’s Goodies is the oldest spaza in all of Soweto and Gogo’s pride and joy. When Gogo leaves for a few da...

Guest: Charles Boyes Carrol Boyes graduated with a fine arts degree from the University of Pretoria. Like most art graduates in the country, she had dreams of taking the art world by storm but was met with the tough reality that a career as a sculpturer was not feasible in South Africa. Instead, she made a career of teaching English to high school students and art to juniors. At the age of 35, she...

Mathebe Molise was born and bred in Johannesburg. In 2013 she qualified as a Chartered Accountant after which she spent 5 months in Boston, Massachusetts in the United States. Following her secondment in Boston, Mathebe joined a top investment bank as a credit analyst and had different roles while at the bank over 8 years.   Guest: Mathebe Molise

We now live in an era where streaming is how we all consume TV, thanks to companies like Netflix and Hulu, which have established a very distinct way that consumers consume creativity and a very specific way that people develop stories. We have a binge culture, which almost mandates how quickly television makers and production firms must create to fulfil demand. We're having a think about the busi...

Guest: Boitumelo Motau

Jazzy July is keeping Jazz alive in Newtown. Since its launch in 2018, aneclectic mix of South Africa’s most innovative voices will be part of this year’sexciting bill of the Jazzy July at the Market Theatre. The Music festival haspreviously hosted some of Mzansi’s greats with the likes of Nduduzo Makhathini,Thandi Ntuli, Nomfundo Xaluva, Siya Makuzeni and Ami FakuJazzy July will be back live this...

Intimate Evening with music sensation Ntsika Live at the South African State Theatre (Tshwane) featuring guests: The Soil, MAXHOSA AFRICA, Vusi Nova, Dumza Maswana, Karabo Mathe & globally acclaimed “Surprise Guest Arts” , taking place on Saturday, 7pm, 9th July 2022. Guest: Ntsika Ngxanga

Tutu Puoane is a South African Jazz singer. She grew up in the township of Mamelodi, Pretoria. By 1997 she had already been performing in Johannesburg downtown. Realizing her passion for singing, Tutu went on to study jazz vocals at the University of Cape Town with Jelena Reveshin and Virginia Davids.     Guest: Tutu Puoane

The Drowning Eye is a little-known play by Frantz Fanon, written in 1949. Part love poem, part surrealist narrative, and part philosophical treatise, Fanon’s play reads as a testimony to the power and possibilities of love as an act of resistance. This contemporary reimagining of the text explores the edge between love, shadow and violence. Tamara Guhrs and Stacy Hardy join forces with KwaSha, the...

LaNitra M. Berger is an award-winning scholar, educator, and social justice advocate working towards making higher education accessible to low-income, first-generation, and minority students. Her scholarly interests are in art and social activism in the African and Jewish diasporas. For over 15 years, her work as an educator focuses on creating and expanding education abroad opportunities for unde...

Guest: Sthu Manaka

(‘I’ve been trying’ 8 years without a job), a short documentary film that uncovers the real challenges young people face on their journey to employment – A film launched on Youth Day. Directed by Eh!woza’s Sam Flans with camera work by Alfa Fipaza, narrated by Pearl Thusi and with commentary by advocacy campaign Youth Capital.   Guest: Sam Flans

Latitudes online, a platform for art collectors to explore and buy contemporary art from Africa recently launched their first annual prize for women identifying artists, the ANNA Award. Two female-centric South African brands have joined forces to create an exciting new art award. The aim of the award is to discover, recognize and nurture a new generation of women artists in South Africa. For both...

The history of South Africa’s democracy cannot be told without reference to the historic June 16, 1976 Soweto uprisings. The Hector Pieterson picture became the rallying point for the international community and liberation movements.   Guest: Thulani Nzima – Chair of Sam Nzima Foundation

To evoke the spirit of Youth Month, the South African State Theatre (SAST) will be hosting the 14th annual Youth Expression Festival (YEF) which is set to feature young creatives whose works make vigorous commentary on topical affairs that impact the contemporary youth. Racism, corruption, mental health, cultural heritage, and xenophobia are some of the urgent themes ensuing from the works that wi...

Made In SA – Due to financial difficulties at her law firm brought on by Covid, Hlamarisa Ndaba (33) founded her interior design business. Hlamarisa, who was born in Giyani, completed an LLB degree at the University of Limpopo and a postgraduate program in telecommunications at Wits. With an LLB and admission to the legal profession, you are eligible to practice in any area to which you were expos...

Guest: Azael Langa

This play was recorded live on stage into a movie and now one can watch it in selected cinemas in GP, KZN and Eastern Cape. This is believed to be the first in South African shores. Guest: Nkanyiso Bhengu

Guest; Azael Langa,