07/05/2026
Artist in Frame: 🎥
Manelisi Vilakazi’s work documents the everyday life of township and rural communities. Through drawing, he captures the people who shape our social fabric — taxi drivers, traditional healers, churchgoers, non-believers, workers, and ordinary voices often overlooked by history.
His work functions almost like a visual newspaper of kasi and rural life — preserving conversations, characters, and realities that exist beyond headlines. In a country where so much of our history was carried through word of mouth, documentation becomes preservation. Because if it is not documented, history slowly forgets it existed.
