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Duane Jethro’s profile on The Conversation

During UCT’s Jagger Library fire, South Africa lost a priceless collection. A new book explores the calamity.

This year visitors can look forward to the added extras that come with attending the fair in person: parties, talks, hosted debates, a bookshop and a space to hang out.

More than 98 local and international exhibitors from 20 different countries, including 17 first-time participants, will be taking part in the ninth edition of

Share University of Cape Town (UCT) scholars Nkule Mabaso and Associate Professor Nomusa Makhubu’s co-edited, handcrafted creative book There are Mechanisms in Place took the laurels for Best Visual Art Collection in the prestigious 2021 Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS) Awards: Book, Creative and Digital Contribution. Nkule Mabaso, the curator of the Michaelis Galleries, and Nomusa Makhubu, associate professor (art history and visual culture) in the Michaelis School of Fine Art, were rece...

Four University of Cape Town (UCT) academics were awarded two UCT Creative Works Awards for 2020. Nkule Mabaso and Associate Professor Nomusa Makhubu for their exhibition The stronger we become. Associate Professor Nadia Davids and Professor Jay Pather were honoured for their production What Remains. This is Mabaso and Associate Professor Makhubu’s first Creative Works Award, which recognises major art works, performances, productions, compositions and architectural designs produced by UCT s...