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    ARTS & LIFE

    Makana through local lenses

    Rod AmnerBy Rod AmnerMarch 24, 2022Updated:March 24, 2022No Comments3 Mins Read
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    From the left: Raphaela Linders from National Arts Festival, and Makana Tourism's Prudence Mini, and Sanette Steyn. Photo: Ovayo Milisa Novukela

    By OVAYO MILISA NOVUKELA and SIVE FAITH GINYA

    Rhodes PhD student Dinah Mukhari has won first prize in the 2022 #IAMMAKANA photographic competition.

    Her prize is a safari getaway for two at Mansfield Private Reserve outside Port Alfred, a guided game drive and a couple’s full body massage at River Spa. She also gets online photo editing tutorials and a cash prize of R1 000.

    First Prize Winner Dinah Mukhari. Photo: Ovayo Milisa Novukela

    Makana Tourism announced the results on Wednesday, 23 March at the 1820 Settlers Monument.

    Mukhari said photography is her hobby. Although she is used to taking pictures of events in her home, Limpopo, she started taking photographs in earnest three years ago when she first arrived in Makhanda.

    In the absence of in-person schooling during the lockdown, she started learning more about photography. Mukhari was astonished she won the competition: “I feel good – I didn’t see this coming.”

    There will never be the right time, just go for it! Photo: Dinah Mukhari

    Second prize went to Nolu Gocongo, who also got the Fan’s Choice Award.

    Donkey cart on Beaufort Street with the background of iNtaba yezono. Photo: Nolu Gocongo

    Rhodes University Emeritus Professor Roddy Fox was the third prize winner. The photograph was taken one evening in ‘O’ Week 2020, just before Covid-19. Fox thought it would be cool to take a ladder to Fort Selwyn to capture the full moon rising over the eastern townships. When he arrived, he found students enjoying the moonrise – and to his surprise they did not even see him taking the photograph.

    Fox has his own website, a blog, an online store, runs exhibitions, and produces books. He has two virtual photography exhibitions planned for the National Arts Festival.

    Rhodes ‘O’ Week students enjoying the moonrise from Fort Selwyn. Photo: Roddy Fox

    Acting Makana Tourism Director, Prudence Mini, said the #IAMMAKANA photography competition, started in 2021, aimed to challenge the negative narrative about Makana and focus on its rich assets.

    All the cash prizes are sponsored by the National Arts Festival in support of the National Arts Council.

    A Father and his two sons taking a walk on a Sunday afternoon along 1 Spring Street, Makhanda. Photo: Atang Matiea
    The go to stone along a Makhanda hiking trail. Photo: Nolu Gocongo
    Beatlemania. Photo: Aislinn Salomon
    Alive again. Photo: Lithakazi Esethu Mhaga
    3 Chimneys Old Brickworks. Photo: Storm Justine Davies
    Lekker locals. Photo: Storm Justine Davies
    Electric sunset on Mountain Drive. Photo: Edith Singini
    The story continues. Photo: Lithakazi Esethu Mhaga
    Summer Storm Over The Power Station. Photo: Roddy Fox
    A Walk Down High Street. Photo: Lara Ashlinn Salomon
    Makhanda, the city with the happiest donkeys!. Photo: Megan Slyper
    Garden Visitors. Photo: Lara Ashlinn Salomon
    Raised donkey ears captured from a ridden cart passing two walking men on its route to Zolani. Photo: Makwena Manaka
    Donkey art work. Photo: Nolu Gocongo
    Photoshoot at South Africa Museum Literature. Photo: Nolu Gocongo
    IAM Makana Grahamstown Cathedral at night. Photo: Nolu Gocongo
    Two Icons: The Cock House and Mook Lion’s Donkey Mural. Photo: Roddy Fox
    We are here. Photo: Lithakazi Esethu Mhaga
    A member of the Makhanda Wild Hikers Crew hits the Oldenburgia Trail. Photo: Mfundo Ntshwaxa
    Donkeys surrounded in Makhanda. Photo: Sanic Photo Studio
    Sunset in Makhanda, time 6:39pm. Photo: Sanic Photography
    Beauty Queen – Cow struts down Hill Street, as if declaring, “I own this”!
    Photo: Lithakazi Esethu Mhaga
    1820 Settlers Monument in Makhanda (Grahamstown).
    Photo: Blessing Mugova
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