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The term Siddi refers to Afro-Indians – Africans who mixed with Indians through marriage and relationships. Africans crossed the Indian Ocean and arrived in India during the 1200s, 1300s and 1400s.

Since the beginning of art as we know it, the human body has been central to artistic concerns. Classical sculpture set the bar very high in exploring the representation of bodies.

Imagine you could turn a hollow sphere completely inside out - without making a hole, without cutting the material, without making any creases. If you could ever do such a thing, it would rely on a field of mathematics called topology.

Lindokuhle Sobekwa has been awarded South Africa’s 2023 FNB Art Prize. He becomes the first artist using documentary photography as his primary medium to win the prestigious competition.

Among the invited artists at the coronation of Britain’s King Charles III was the South African soprano, Pretty Yende. Coronations are not events that take place often. What made the moment special is the rareness of the occasion.

The transformation of the arts in South Africa has been on the cultural agenda since the dawn of democracy.Arguably, opera has undergone the most significant changes despite once being viewed as an elitist Eurocentric art form.