Cast the first stone: Our Mary Magdalene of the townships
A feast to paint Winnie Madikizela-Mandela as a black nationalist loony and a woman of loose morals kicked into gear even before her body was cold
Our favourite further mucker
The ‘man boy of all ages’ was one of the very best that South Africa – and the world – had to offer
Buyel’Ekhaya Mtase: This land of ours shrouded in song
Amid the fratricidal political mayhem threatening to rip the soul of the country asunder, a music festival proposes that local is the national
Seer with the devil’s voice now hangs out with angels
Leonard Cohen’s songs evoked the mystical incantations of Bongani Madondo’s youth, but also voodooed music and poetry into a profound creative ritual.
Shared memories reunite Africa and the Americas on black magic spiritual flights
‘If you believe Mutwa is given to buck-wild conspiracies I have an antibiotic fer ya in four words: Dr Ivan van Sertima.’
From shaman to star man: Bongani Madondo has an audience with Sanusi Credo Mutwa
Bongani Madondo takes a trip across the Kalahari to meet the man and peek into his futuristic past.
Year 2015: The Naafians have landed. Flee or fight?
Bongani Madondo on the fictional Naafians’s dark nights – in the shadow of a sacred mountain in the southwestern district of the Z’aniaa Republic.
Class edition: Once we were ‘The Madondos’ – the special ones
Writer Bongani Madondo relates how books have eased the psychic pain of his class-conscious family.
Apartheid: Defiance was a dapper struggle, too
Bongani Madondo searches for elegance in a vast exhibition of photographic material documenting life in apartheid South Africa.
Enwezor turns a wanderer’s eye to the bureaucracy of everyday apartheid
Okwui Enwezor: More about the man behind the ‘Rise and Fall of Apartheid: Photography and the Bureaucracy of Everyday Life’