Grocott's Mail
  • NEWS
    • Courts & Crime
    • Features
    • Politics
    • People
    • Health & Well-being
  • SPORT
    • News
    • Results
    • Sports Diary
    • Club Contacts
    • Columns
    • Sport Galleries
    • Sport Videos
  • OPINION
    • Election Connection
    • Makana Voices
    • Deur ‘n Gekleurde Bril
    • Newtown… Old Eyes
    • Incisive View
    • Your Say
  • ARTSLIFE
    • Cue
    • Makana Sharp!
    • Visual Art
    • Literature
    • Food & Fun
    • Festivals
    • Community Arts
    • Going Places
  • OUR TOWN
    • What’s on
    • Spiritual
    • Emergency & Well-being
    • Safety
    • Civic
    • Municipality
    • Weather
    • Properties
      • Grahamstown Properties
    • Your Town, Our Town
  • OUTSIDE
    • Enviro News
    • Gardening
    • Farming
    • Science
    • Conservation
    • Motoring
    • Pets/Animals
  • ECONOMIX
    • Business News
    • Entrepreneurship
    • Personal Finance
  • EDUCATION
    • Education NEWS
    • Education OUR TOWN
    • Education INFO
  • Covid-19
  • EDITORIAL
Facebook Twitter Instagram
Trending
  • Chess tournament leaves participants feeling grandiose
  • GM Direct publishing break
  • “Makhanda is in shambles,” says Ward Four resident
  • GADRA and Mobile Science Lab launch new science project
  • Ward Two residents buy own floodlights to combat cable theft
  • A town without a playground: where do the children play?
  • Women, Politics, Power, Patriachy: A feminist lens
  • Makhanda’s Links Royal House Gaokx’aob (Chief) has died
Facebook Twitter Instagram
Grocott's Mail
  • NEWS
    • Courts & Crime
    • Features
    • Politics
    • People
    • Health & Well-being
  • SPORT
    • News
    • Results
    • Sports Diary
    • Club Contacts
    • Columns
    • Sport Galleries
    • Sport Videos
  • OPINION
    • Election Connection
    • Makana Voices
    • Deur ‘n Gekleurde Bril
    • Newtown… Old Eyes
    • Incisive View
    • Your Say
  • ARTSLIFE
    • Cue
    • Makana Sharp!
    • Visual Art
    • Literature
    • Food & Fun
    • Festivals
    • Community Arts
    • Going Places
  • OUR TOWN
    • What’s on
    • Spiritual
    • Emergency & Well-being
    • Safety
    • Civic
    • Municipality
    • Weather
    • Properties
      • Grahamstown Properties
    • Your Town, Our Town
  • OUTSIDE
    • Enviro News
    • Gardening
    • Farming
    • Science
    • Conservation
    • Motoring
    • Pets/Animals
  • ECONOMIX
    • Business News
    • Entrepreneurship
    • Personal Finance
  • EDUCATION
    • Education NEWS
    • Education OUR TOWN
    • Education INFO
  • Covid-19
  • EDITORIAL
Grocott's Mail
You are at:Home»ARTS & LIFE»Makana through local lenses
ARTS & LIFE

Makana through local lenses

Rod AmnerBy Rod AmnerMarch 24, 2022Updated:March 24, 2022No Comments3 Mins Read
Facebook Twitter Pinterest LinkedIn Tumblr Email
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
Previous ArticleBody positivity: What is it, and how do I get it?
Next Article Generous Makhandans respond to cleaning trio
Rod Amner

Comments are closed.

Tweets by Grocotts
Newsletter



Listen

The Rhodes University Community Engagement Division has launched Engagement in Action, a new podcast which aims to bring to life some of the many ways in which the University interacts with communities around it. Check it out below.

Humans of Makhanda

Humans of Makhanda

Weather    |     About     |     Advertise     |     Subscribe     |     Contact     |     Support Grocott’s Mail

© 2023 Maintained by School of Journalism & Media Studies.

Type above and press Enter to search. Press Esc to cancel.