CAPE TOWN POWER TALKS Project Team

UKHONA NTSALI MLANDU

Ukhona Ntsali Mlandu Director of Greatmore Studios in Cape Town. Founder and Head Curator of makwande.republic in the Goshen Village, Eastern Cape. She is 2021/22 Atlantic Fellow for Racial Equity and was Global Cultural Relations Fellow 2021.

Her work is interested in artist mobility and mobility justice for artists and cultural goods. Mlandu also has a special interest in the politics of public space and place-making, spatial and gender justice, heritage and memory. All her work is concerned with decoloniality and a black radical feminist position as central to transformation and imagining of justice, repair, care and equity.

She has curated a number of festivals, programmes and public art interventions including the public art live installation #100AfricanReads.

UKHONA NTSALI MLANDU

MAMMIE QWAZI

Mammie Qwazi is a single mother of two daughters and Director of Ubuhe Bendalo Events and suppliers. A Cape Town based company specializing in catering and event managing. Currently she is coordinating events for Curiosity Hotel and Salt Boutique Hotel where she creates dinner experiences

for the two establishments every alternate Friday. Mammie is a member of Get Local Black, a women’s organization which hosts space for unapologetically black gatherings to intentionally support Black Business. We hold monthly events to brainstorm to create connections.

She has project managed significant events in the past; Mirriam Makeba Tribute hosted by Artscape, Marimba Extra Vaganza in Grahamstown for the Arts Festival, Kwa Langa 2010 Word Cup public viewing of all soccer matches, and cultural productions and programmes hosted by Artscape which included
Umbiyozo Youth Programmes and Imvelo Heritage Programmes.

MAMMIE QWAZI

Rui Assubuji

A former Doctoral and Postdoctoral Fellow at the CHR, I took up a research associate position within the SARChI Chair in Visual History & Theory in 2021. Video and photography are my professional background, with which I have been working since 1985, first as a cameraman employed at Mozambican National Television, free-lancing since 1992. In 2006 I completed Museum and Heritage Studies in Cape Town. For the MA project, I explored the photographic material deposited at Manuscripts and Archives at UCT belonging to Monica and Godfrey Wilson. As a PhD fellow and postdoc at the CHR, I worked on my dissertation submitted in 2021 with the title ‘A Visual Struggle for Mozambique. Revisiting Narratives, Interpreting photographs (1850 – 1930)’. My interest in audio-visuals is developing from its production to its usages, the spaces of memory and debate, the knowledge it creates, its storage, handling, management, conservation. Hopefully, my work will increase awareness of their significance and contribute to easier public access to these materials in archives and repositories.

Rui Assubuji

Faye Kabali-Kagwa

Faye Kabali-Kagwa is a Ugandan-South African arts coordinator, cultural curator, and arts writer. She was recognised as one of the Mail & Guardians Top 200 Young South Africans for 2021. In 2019 she became a Salzburg Global Seminar fellow as part of their Cultural Innovators Forum. Faye has an uncanny ability to read the pulse of the cultural zeitgeist. She cultivates ideas that bridge gaps between audiences and mediums.Whether she is reflecting on contemporary theatre and their commentary on land reformation, same-sex schools and coded patriarchy or reminiscing on important ephemeral cultural spaces, Faye's writing is as vast as the projects she takes on. Faye has been published in the Mail & Guardian, New Frame, and Culture Review.

Faye Kabali-Kagwa

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