Tuesday, 28 March 2023
Mwelela Cele has worked as a curator, education officer, researcher, librarian and events coordinator at UKZN’s Documentation Centre and Campbell Collections, Digital Innovation South Africa and the Luthuli Museum. He recently spent several years in Ginsberg, King William’s Town, working at the Steve Biko Foundation and Centre.
The almost 200-year-old Eastern Cape publisher is facing closure, but a fundraising initiative that highlights its literary archive and importance as a cultural institution could save the press.
As a writer and political activist, HIE Dhlomo gave the world back to South Africans at a time when they sorely needed to see themselves in print.
Niren Tolsi tells New Frame that the media should bear witness to the lives of the oppressed.
On the 41st anniversary of the darkest day for media freedom in South Africa’s history, former press ombud Joe Thloloe gives his diagnosis of the industry’s health.
A previously unpublished photograph taken almost fifty years ago recalls Steve Biko’s dynamic and vibrant charisma.
In isiZulu, there’s a word that aptly captures television’s ability to transport a viewer to faraway worlds – umabonakude. As a child television was a magical world, a fantastic reality beamed into…