One of the mysteries of the HATC and the Creative Cultural Hub is the appointment of a company for what the department refers to as the “transactional advisor” or at times also referred to as a “transaction advisor”. During the ...

  When Mpumalanga premier, Refilwe Mtshweni, unveiled the province’s first Madiba statue, I received a Whatsapp message accompanied by a picture: “This thing doesn’t look like Mandela”, read the message. As an artist myself, I sympathised with the sculptor, because ...

Lemon & Herb, formed by Don Jobe, Skhumbuzo Radebe and Thamsanqa Ntintili is a group of young men who are passionate beyond reasonable doubt about house music. They are young, vibrant and passionate about the art of producing music and ...

World renowned Mpumalanga artist Esther Mahlangu has won the prestigious Ministers Award at the National Lilizela Awards, for her contemporary artwork which has taken the Ndebele culture to the global stage. The awards were hosted by Top Billing presenter Bonang ...

Two of talented South African music stars, the Summer Song of the Year Award winner, Nathi Mankayi and Idols top 10 finalist Monde Msutwana will be sharing the stage at The Ridge for an evening of exciting local musical diversity ...

The multiple-award-winning Mpumalanga-born writer Goodenough Mashego has written an award-winning play that will be showcased in California, in the United States of America, in the next two months. Mashego, from Bushbuckridge, received an invitation to watch his play, The Last ...

For the past five years, a group of young girls have been using dance to preserve and ommenelebrate the marginalized Mapulana culture in Mpumalanga. The girls were inspired to form the Makgakga cultural group in 2009 when a teacher, Jeannette ...

Budding soccer players may no longer face a bleak future if their careers come to an abrupt end. Thanks to an initiative by the South African Breweries and the South African Football Association of establishing a bursary scheme aimed at ...

Some rural Mpumalanga artists who did not know they had it in them to entertain audiences at a professional level have welcomed the launch of a street dance project. The Ebhudlweni Arts Centre was recently launched in Emakhazeni, where choreographers, ...

Mpumalanga Premier David Mabuza has congratulated Karabo Mogane for winning Idols SA 2015. Mabuza said Mogane did the province proud when he took the number one spot at Carnival City in Johannesburg on Sunday night. “A very humble and yet ...