Intraparadox

Tag: south africa

  • Intraparadox, Interview with Sphumelele Zondi. A Nation’s Laundry. 08 Sep 2026.

    Sphumelele Zondi, an artist from Sweetwaters, Pietermaritzburg, now based in Johannesburg is the winner of this year’s SASOL New Signatures Visual Arts Competition with her work ‘The Laundry of a Nation (2026)’. In the present pod, she takes us through the conception of the work and the process of its creation. →

  • Intraparadox, Interview with Joan Kgakilwe Majadibodu founder of Smarts Educare School. PAM 04 July 2025

    In this podcast, I speak to Joan Kgakilwe Majadibodu, the founder of Smarts Educare School, an early childhood development school based in Pretoria North. →

  • Hindsight: Language is our present frontier

    »During a mellow debate which took global center stage on the minds of fans of double O’ seven which toyed with the question as to who should portray Mr. James Bond when Daniel Craig steps away from the role of the British spy a lot of commentators both abroad and home exclaimed that it was… →

  • On the artist Tshepo DD Maponyane’s development

    The aim of this essay is to trace the development of the career of Tshepo DD Maponyane based on an extensive interview that I conducted with him in 2011 shortly after his return from Bali. Already at that time plans were underway to mount an exhibition of his work at the Pretoria Art Museum to… →

  • Interval

    Perhaps there is nothing to say anymore. I lied. Is that so? He asked. If that is the case then it means you must leave the pay tv soap opera affair alone altogether because you are not suited to comment on it. He threw what I considered a nuclear bomb and a bubble of hope… →

  • They’ll be strong

    They’ll be strong They’ll survive my intimidation, my reign, my silent threat. This expression compels me to imagine a silent kata jap wherein one’s opponent is silenced before they even take to the battle ground because one has anticipated their move a whiff away. →

  • Proposal to SABC For SABC Tooke Af Channel and other related matters

    I wish to the spirits of tell a lie vision that very soon you will start to roll out the set tops boxes promised to us prior to the adventures of Bafana Bafana in the world cup and its prequels and deliver us to the promised land of clarity even if it’s not pristine. But… →

  • Neo Resistance Art and its Fallacy

    Let us acknowledge that once the artwork goes public and holds its attention the artist is grabbling with external stimuli however the mode within which the artist is grappling with the issues concern shifts and heightens from personal to public. When the ground on which he operates shifts and heightens unfortunately for him He is… →