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HOMECOMING OF A VISUAL REVOLUTIONARY: Zanele Muholi returns to South Africa with landmark exhibition
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HOMECOMING OF A VISUAL REVOLUTIONARY: Zanele Muholi returns to South Africa with landmark exhibition

By Sitha Maliwa: After captivating audiences from New York to Venice and earning some of the world's highest honours in contemporary photography, internationally acclaimed South African visual activist and artist Zanele Muholi is finally bringing a major solo exhibition home. Opening on 18 July at Southern Guild Cape Town, Kanye Nawe - Alongside You is more than an art exhibition. It is a homecoming decades in the making – one that celebrates identity, honours memory and reclaims stories that have too often been pushed to the margins of history. Occupying the entire Southern Guild gallery at Silo 5 in the V&A Waterfront, the exhibition presents more than two decades of Muholi's groundbreaking work through photography,...
ZANELE MUHOLI AND JO-ANN STRAUSS: Shaping future storytellers on the West Coast
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ZANELE MUHOLI AND JO-ANN STRAUSS: Shaping future storytellers on the West Coast

By Sitha Maliwa: In the quiet fishing village of Paternoster, something extraordinary has unfolded along its windswept shores. For a week, the familiar rhythm of crashing waves and working boats was accompanied by a new sound  - the click of cameras in the hands of children discovering the power to see, and to be seen. This transformation is the heart of a bold collaboration between internationally acclaimed visual activist Zanele Muholi and former Miss South Africa Jo-Ann Strauss. Together, through the Muholi Art Institute (MAI) and the MaseKhaya Foundation, they have ignited a quiet revolution - one led not by adults, but by children. Armed with cameras instead of expectations, the young participants wandered their village freely. The...