Growing the Portuguese Dance Society into the dynamic dance group it is today has provided co-founder Octavio Henriques with a great sense of purpose during what has been a harrowing period in his life. His focus on helping people find and celebrate their roots, in...

2021 marks Eoan Crew’s 88th year of keeping kids inspired and off the street through teaching dance, movement, drama, music, gym and providing aftercare services. The Eoan Group was founded in District Six in 1933 by Helen Southern-Holt as South Africa’s first...

Rieldans is an indigenous Khoisan dance of celebration and storytelling, considered one of the oldest dancing styles in indigenous South Africa. It features frantic footwork at a fiery pace and was originally danced in the sand around a fire, where dust would come up...

Drum majorettes or “drummies”, first appeared in the 1970s with marching girls performing in street parades. Today, in many South African schools it is a competitive sport. When Karin Verster first offered her help with the drummies programme at Hottentots Holland...

The Masizakhe Youth Art Project situated in the small disadvantaged community of Phola Park in Gugulethu was established to keep kids busy after school and fight against teenage pregnancy, substance abuse, high school dropouts and gangsterism. How? Through gumboot...

Do you love to dance? It gets you fit, enhances cognitive and physical capabilities and can even expand your horizons.  Students at Bulumko High School in Khayelitsha are grateful to have this positive play space where they get to focus their energy on something...

Ithemba labantu translated to English means “the hope of the people''.  iThemba Labantu holds 300 youth in Phillippi with their vision to create equal opportunities in historically disadvantaged areas, aimed at the balancing of social injustice within society. They...