Simon Gush, Niren Tolsi and Phumelele Mkhize: Yet..., Again... (2025)

** Tickets will be available from 9am, Tuesday 18 March **

This Thursday (20 March 2025), Simon Gush, Niren Tolsi and Phumelele Mkhize will be screening their film Yet..., Again… (2025). The films will be accompanied by excerpts from other films and media.

The screening is free and open to the public, bookings via Quicket are required as seating capacity is limited to 48 people. Tickets will be available from 9am, Tuesday 18 March - link in bio

Simon Gush is an artist, filmmaker and researcher with the Society, Work and Politics Institute (SWOP), University of Witwatersrand. His work explores the intertwined topics of work (waged and unwaged), land, home, and belonging.

Gush was the Tierney Fellow for Photography, University of the Witwatersrand (2016); a fellow at Institute for Creative Arts, University of Cape Town (2011); and is a laureate of HISK in Gent, Belgium (2008). He completed Masters in 2019, and is currently working on his PhD, both interdisciplinary, based in sociology at the University of Witwatersrand. He was the winner of the Jury prize at Bamako Encounters Biennale in Bamako, Mali, (2015). His films have been screened at National Gallery of Art, Washington DC (2018); ICA, London (2017); Tate Modern, London (2015); and film festivals such as Sharjah Film Platform 3 (2020), International Film Festival Rotterdam (2015), International Short Film Festival Oberhausen (2017) and Visions du Réel (2017).

Niren Tolsi is a 48-year-old South African journalist, writer and arts practitioner based in Cape Town. He is a previous recipient of the Ruth First Fellowship and the Heinrich Böll Journalism Fellowship. Awards for his journalism include the 2009 South African Journalist of the Year (Feature category), the 2016 South African Arts Journalist of the Year and the 2018 SAB Sports Feature Writer of the Year Award. Tolsi’s first book, Writing Around the Wicket - Race, Class and History in South African Cricket was released in December 2025.

His major work is the ongoing multi-disciplinary “slow journalism” project, After Marikana, which, for over a decade has constantly returned to the families and surviving comrades of the 44 men who were killed during a police massacre of striking mineworkers at a platinum mine in Marikana in 2012.

Tolsi is directing a film about jazz and politics in South Africa, Chasing the Rainbow.

He is currently a research associate at the Society, Work and Politics institute (SWOP), University of Witwatersrand.

Phumelele Mkhize is an activist from the eKhenana Commune in Mayville, Durban. She has lived in eKhenana since 2018 and serves as the Commune’s secretary.

The eKhenana Commune is facing attacks from local taxi owners and others because they want to use the land for their own benefit. At eKhenana projects include a communal garden, communal poultry farming and a communal kitchen to make sure that no one goes to bed with an empty stomach.

Mkhize has been jailed for fighting for the impoverished and to build an equal society. In November 2022 Mkhize received the Southern Human Rights Defender of the Year Award on behalf of the eKhenana Commune, in Lusaka, Zambia.

Afterimage is a film screening programme, funded by the National Arts Council and run by Mitchell Gilbert Messina and Ben Albertyn. Each screening has an artist share a work of theirs alongside some of the short films and reference material that informed it. The programme aims to spotlight artists working with film and video, demystify their making, and reveal the traits they share with works that came before.