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Connie Chiume - The Plug

Connie Chiume: The Storyteller

Connie Chiume: The Storyteller It’s hard to imagine being dedicated to something for 45 years. Chadwick Boseman once said, “Purpose crosses disciplines. Purpose is an essential element of you. It is the reason you are on the planet at this particular time in history.” For Connie Chiume, she found her

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Minnie Dlamini - The Plug

Minnie Dlamini – The Storyteller

Minnie Dlamini: The Storyteller Minnie Dlamini hasn’t given a detailed interview in three years. Deliberately so. Her brother Khosini died in September 2019 after having suffered a ruptured brain aneurysm and being on life support for 23 days before succumbing to his condition. “Devastating. Absolutely devastating,” she says of the

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Connie Chiume Minnie Dlamini

Connie Chiume and Minnie Dlamini: Generations of Film

Connie Chiume is the darling of SA film and television. From teaching through the 1976 student uprising in Soweto to taking up a career as an actress, her story is one of working through an era when the creative arts weren’t seen as viable prospects in our country to being

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Manthe Ribane

Inside Manthe Ribane’s Museum of Belief, Optimism, and Solidarity

There was a girl. Teal lipstick, fluorescent disco pants, and a sharp bowl cut, razored bald on the sides, with a waist-long braid at each temple framing her face. “I’m a cartoon character,” she tells one camera while the screen cuts to her dancing in a Johannesburg street. She’s practically

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Tony Gum

Tony Gum: Find Your People and Move With Them

Being an artist is a lot like being a teenager. It’s a time of simultaneous omnipotence and powerlessness, according to Chris Kraus, as you live so intensely inside your own head that there isn’t a difference between reality and your imagination. You’re the master of your own universe, discovering and

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Manthe Ribane Tony Gum Multichoice

Manthe Ribane and Tony Gum: The Storytellers

Every story has a beginning. Our origins inform who we are and are at the heart of our identity. We are all storytellers, ultimately, and our stories play a definitive role in how we evolve as beings. Africa’s most loved storyteller, Multichoice, is passionate about showcasing them and the artists

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Connie Chiume - The Plug

Connie Chiume: The Storyteller

Connie Chiume: The Storyteller It’s hard to imagine being dedicated to something for 45 years. Chadwick Boseman once said, “Purpose crosses disciplines. Purpose is an

Minnie Dlamini - The Plug

Minnie Dlamini – The Storyteller

Minnie Dlamini: The Storyteller Minnie Dlamini hasn’t given a detailed interview in three years. Deliberately so. Her brother Khosini died in September 2019 after having