ICON Durban 2025: Westville Girls’ High Becomes Geek Culture Central
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ICON Durban 2025: Westville Girls’ High Becomes Geek Culture Central

After a six-year hiatus, ICON Durban has made a triumphant return, bringing together fans of comics, gaming, cosplay and pop culture for a two-day celebration at Westville Girls’ High School in KwaZulu-Natal. A Comeback Years in the Making The last ICON in Durban was held in 2019, and organizers felt it was time to revive the convention in 2025 —…

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October 14, 2025
Cosplayers Durban: Thinking Back and Looking Forward
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Cosplayers Durban: Thinking Back and Looking Forward

Let me be the first to say I neither am responsible for bringing cosplay to Durban nor was I there when it started- I simply am one of the small crowd who was lucky enough to have been cosplayers back when it was a far smaller  community and thus has been able to see it grow to what it is…

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August 6, 2019
Icon 2019 – A Taste of Things to Come
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Icon 2019 – A Taste of Things to Come

This weekend is ICON, and for the uninitiated, it is Durban’s original convention that revolves around gaming, comics cosplay and a damn fine time. It has grown exponentially over the years. I remember attending my first ICON in 2014. Back then it was known as Icon by the Sea. Since then it has shed its skin to become a well-recognized…

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July 2, 2019