South Africa has launched a major campaign to recover and protect lost township art that chronicles the turbulent decades of the anti-apartheid struggle. The drive to get the works back ...

Township artists don't want you to see buying their art as supporting them ... AllAfrica is a voice of, by and about Africa - aggregating, producing and distributing 600 news and information ...

The name means “place of the sun.” In Langa, which is the oldest South African township, art is everywhere you look, with colorful murals on houses, walls and local businesses. Between ...

The work of five township artists can now be seen in ... Commenting on the state of art in South Africa, Thabatha said "Starting anything is hard. Being in arts is also hard, but it is the ...

South Africa’s townships are a hotbed of creativity. But the art and music they inspire does not often make an impact on the world stage. The United Nations is trying to change that.

Culture is not the first thing that springs to mind when people in South Africa talk of about Diepsloot township ... But a recent initiative to bring art to the streets could change this, as ...

Novelist Nadine Gordimer was among about 300 white liberals who visited a black township near Johannesburg on May 18, 1986, to lay wreaths at the grave of victims of political unrest. Gordimer ...

The works are figurative and mostly explore the experience of growing up in a South African township. Throughout his career he has used his art to educate and begin conversations on global plastic ...