SASOL New Signatures Visual Art Competition 2025

This afternoon, five merit award winners, a runner-up up as well as the overall winner for this year’s edition of SASOL New Signatures Visual Art Competition have been announced through an opening ceremony presided over by Ms. Nozipho Mbatha, Group Brand Sponsorship Senior Manager for SASOL. Tammy Lee Baikie (Johannesburg), Rebecca Louise (Beck) Glass (Tshwane), Snelihle Asanda Maphumulo (Gqeberha), Vian Mervyn Roos (Pretoria) and Sarah Volker (Gqeberha) walked away with merit awards worth R 10 000. While Thabo Treasure Mofokeng (Johannesburg) was announced as the runner-up, walking away with R 25 000, Juandré van Eck (Gqeberha) was confirmed as the overall winner for 2025.… Read More SASOL New Signatures Visual Art Competition 2025

03 September, 202506 September, 2025 Mmutle Arthur Kgokong/Intraparadox

A Homage to my Beloveds

{T}he magic of the viewing experience in Banele Khoza’s work is most profound when the quality of his painting is given a closer inspection. It is in this intense viewing that the power of colour and its handling is revealed in all its splendour.… Read More A Homage to my Beloveds

27 September, 202417 November, 2024 Mmutle Arthur Kgokong/Intraparadox

Nogolide

12 March, 202416 November, 2024 Mmutle Arthur Kgokong/Intraparadox

The flow of magic

If you had a chance to stand on the terrace of Atteridgeville Community library of yester yore; lulled by a pungent of a freshly manicured lawn whose pathway was lined with flowers, you looked across a busy roundabout, to face Mazakhele. That neighbourhood, in an inclination, continuously sprawled westward.

On your near right hand side would be an array of matorokisi coaches shops which consisted of a Hardware, Café, Diary Shop, Butchery and a shop that sold odds and bits you could find in the first three shops. What a snapshot tinged with sepia tones of nostalgia. But no bookshop.
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28 December, 202317 November, 2024 Mmutle Arthur Kgokong/Intraparadox

The emergence of the son of Njhakanjhaka

In Mikondzo ya vakokwani (The Ancestors footsteps), Thephelus Rikhotso, has reflected on something deep within his psyche. He has come to share with us personalized entities that not only anchor his being in this world. But help make sense of our precarious world. … Read More The emergence of the son of Njhakanjhaka

12 August, 202321 November, 2024 Mmutle Arthur Kgokong/Intraparadox

The Courtyard

The crowd stirred to leave the courtyard, the Pied Crows flapped jetted away, quacking in all directions to enshrine the proceedings of this Khorho in the heavens.… Read More The Courtyard

14 July, 202317 November, 2024 Mmutle Arthur Kgokong/Intraparadox

21Column – THR33

‘a whats-on listing’ 21ColumnVol.1 No.3.July 2021 ~ Header insert, August House//Cape Town Collab runs between June and July in Cape Town CBD ~ Intra’Byte: #6 We have finally seen July, at least the beginning of it. In a world that seem to have come to hold its bated breath for a future that is solidly… Read More 21Column – THR33

13 July, 202102 October, 2021 Mmutle Arthur Kgokong/Intraparadox