From an artist, to an artist: Pitika Ntuli remembers Sibongile Khumalo

In June 2020, South African poet, professor and sculptor Pitika Ntuli completed a collection of sculptures made mostly of bones. A number of his lifelong friends and collaborators recorded praise songs to accompany these works in what became the international award-winning virtual exhibition, 'Azibuyele Emasisweni' (Return to the Source). Sibongile Khumalo was one of these people. Ntuli remembers her here …

31 January 2021 - 00:00
By Pitika Ntuli

Where do you begin to write something about a legend like Sibongile Khumalo? A consummate artist. A moving spirit armed with deep memories of our beginnings.

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