Are we falling out of love with Jo’burg? (Oh, My Heart)
Jo’burg, is it time we break up? You certainly don’t make it easy, but perhaps this place is the beat of my heart…
Ang Lloyd
I'm a journalist and sub-editor who is based in Johannesburg. I also run a small content and communications company called wordbird.
My journalistic writing has been published both locally and internationally (The Sunday Times, The Cape Times, The Mail & Guardian, Marie Claire, LFI Magazine, to name a few), and I run a blog called Jozi.Rediscovered, where I tell the stories of Jo'burg's people and streets.
I'm also a content specialist: my specialities lie in C-Suite thought leadership and corporate communications, as well as tech writing.
I have a BA in Journalism and History from Rhodes University (2004) and a BA Hons in Journalism from Wits University (with Distinction, 2020).
Mastering the art of self-care with 'slow kung fu'
For the past decade tai chi has been my primary method of self-care. For 40 minutes twice a week I've balanced on one leg, swiped a wooden sword through the air, and spent an inordinate amount of time with my eyes closed, focusing on the area just below my naval.
Christiaan Diedericks' new art exhibit poses tough questions for post-'94 SA
The artist's 50th solo exhibition, 'In Search of a New King', is a call for our country to heal
In Search of a New King is Christiaan Diedericks' 50th solo show and his second at The Melrose Gallery in Johannesburg. His latest work - which includes everything from huge monotypes to delicate ceramic plates - explores themes that sit uncomfortably in post-apartheid SA such as racism, white privilege, colonialism and corruption.
The Johannesburg Holocaust and Genocide Centre, Forest Town | jozi.rediscovered
The cattle train comes to an unexpected, metal-on-metal halt. It’s dark inside. The single toilet bucket – which 80 people had to share – overflowed days ago, and Veronica just wants this suffocating nightmare to end.
The sealed door’s bolts clank open from the outside. It’s freezing and she can’t see a thing. The windowless box of darkness extends outwards, into a December-winter night. There are soldiers with dogs; their vicious pack of teeth pierce the cold air in bursts of terror. A searchl
Five Strikes for the festival
Acclaimed theatre director and actor Sylvaine Strike is the featured artist at this year’s National Festival of the Arts in Grahamstown, which marks its 40th anniversary.
In place for the second year running, the position is offered to an artist who is “prolifically producing work”, says Strike.
There is also a significant focus on interdisciplinary and collaborative work and Strike has certainly ticked those boxes.
Grahamstown will be host to five of Strike’s productions, with three appearin
Zanele Muholi mourns and celebrates South African queer lives
A powerful installation hits you when you encounter the exhibition space for Zanele Muholi’s Of Love & Loss: a glass coffin in the centre of the room, filled with flowers, and a framed self-portrait of the photographer. Muholi tells me that she had it custom-made, and on the opening night of the exhibition, she lay in it.
Of Love & Loss, depicts the lives of lesbians, gays and transgender people, by exploring the binaries of joy and sadness, acceptance and intolerance, life and death. Like most
Reframing the victim as the victor | Cape Times
THE victimisation of women has dominated news headlines for months, one of the most recent being the sexual harassment of women students at Wits University. Now, more than ever, South Africans are called to question our so-called “culture of violence”, and Cape Town conceptual artist, Belinda Blignaut, is doing just that.
Her latest exhibition is an investigation into social phenomena that affect many South Africans, especially women: violence, constraint, and façades. What’s most remarkable, h
