Merafong has always remained the bedrock of South Africa’s thriving economy, with the region boasting and excess of mineshaft extracting valuable metals from the earth. But the region sadly remains disproportionately under-resourced, and the economic benefits of the mineral wealth seemingly going elsewhere. Throughout the poverty-stricken townships that supply labour to the mines, unemployment of […]

The film ‘Cinema from Within’ (2020) interrogates through both Dr Mattera’s identity as a black South African man and his practice as a writer/director/producer of film and television, how black identity and representation in South African cinema has developed from the colonial and Apartheid eras to the politically negotiated transition to democracy in 1994. It […]