Cape Town Art Fair curator shares his
Tumelo Mosaka, art curator
Sundays are for catching up with the family.
We spent so many years in the US immersed in American culture and news that it’s a real treat to spend the morning catching up on local news, reading all the Sunday newspapers together. We read the Sowetan, Sunday Times, Mail & Guardian. Then we have long conversations together about whatever we’ve found interesting or has caught my eye.
Since Sunday is such a family day, we spend a lot of time after breakfast exploring Cape Town.
We live in Tokai and there’s not all that much out there. So we head off to places nearby like the Groot Constantia wine farm, one of the oldest wine-producing farms in South Africa. We like going to Simonsig in Stellenbosch too, a beautiful farm established by French Huguenot Jacques Malan who arrived in the Cape in 1688. We love to taste the wines and have a long, indulgent Sunday lunch.
We are not a family that watches much TV,
so we’ll all wind down in the evening by reading our current books or by discussing politics over some delicious Cape wine. If we’re out on Sunday evening, it is more often than not in Hout Bay at the beach watching the sunset with a picnic.
On some Sunday afternoons we explore
the area by going on a family hike. The most important thing is that we spend it together.
Sunday dinners are usually based around Cape Malay flavours
— my favourite is fish curry. Fish is my best kind of food. I love trout or dorado. Later on in the evening I’ll listen to some jazz, my favourite genre of music, or I’ll discover some South African music I haven’t heard before. My favourite musicians are Cesária Évora and Dorothy Masuka.
I’ll end the day reading.
I’m really interested in the criminal justice system in the US, so I read books about that. We spent 15 years there, I studied there, and I became very interested in the way American society systematically profiles and excludes black males.
Tumelo Mosaka is the chief curator of the 2018 Cape Town Art Fair. Over the past 10 years he’s worked independently in New York curating exhibitions pertaining to migration, identity and racial injustice.