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            READ MORE SA Jazz - These Times

            Herbie Tsoaeli, Attiyah Khan and Asher Gamedze, in conversation with Lindelwa Dalamba.
            READ MORE African Critical Inquiry Programme Announces 2025 Ivan Karp Doctoral Research Award

            The African Critical Inquiry Programme has named Maja Jakarasi as recipient of the 2025 Ivan Karp Doctoral Research Award. Jakarasi, a Zimbabwean student in the Anthropology Department, is working on his PhD at the University of the Western Cape. Support from ACIP’s Ivan Karp Award will allow Jakarasi to pursue significant research for his dissertation.
            READ MORE Exhibition opening: And I, a newly evolved fish.

            And I, a newly evolved fish, an exhibition by the RE-WIRING project, the Women's and Gender Studies Department, UWC, and the CHRs Iyatsiba Lab will be opening on Friday, 8 August 2025. The exhibition opening will be preceded by a seminar focusing on watery engagements.
            March 25, 2024

            Luyanda Nogodlwana wins Best Puppetry Design at the 59th Fleur Du Cap Theatre Awards

            It is with great pleasure that we announce Ukwanda Puppets and Design Arts Collective member, Luyanda Nogodlwane’s, award for Best Puppetry Design at the 59th Fleur du Cap Theatre Awards.
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            January 23, 2023

            MAXEKE: “This work is not for yourselves”

            This production premieres at the Star Theatre at the District Six Homecoming Centre (formerly the Fugard Theatre) on the 7th February until the 11th February 2023.
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            February 23, 2022

            In the Press: Buhle Ngaba on CHR Charlotte Maxeke Production

            CHR Artist in Residence Buhle Ngaba is writing a screenplay for a groundbreaking puppetry production on the life of Charlotte Maxeke.
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            July 1, 2021

            Performing Charlotte Maxeke

            With 2021 being declared “The Year of Charlotte Maxeke,” the DSI-NRF Flagship on Critical thought in the African Humanities at the Centre for Humanities Research, University of the Western Cape, has embarked on a special production based on the life of Maxeke.
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            May 31, 2021

            Hamlet, Live and In Progress

            CHR Artists in Residence Buhle Ngaba and Tony Bonani Miyambo are set to perform a live reading of Neil Coppen’s adaptation of Shakespeare’s Hamlet as part of KKNK 2021.
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            • SA Jazz – These Times
              July 30, 2025
            • African Critical Inquiry Programme Announces 2025 Ivan Karp Doctoral Research Award
              July 29, 2025
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              July 25, 2025
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