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Johannesburg: A city laid bare in lines of poetry

I recently moved from Pretoria to Johannesburg. But it does not feel like I have moved less than 60km, within the same province. Perhaps the same gulf would be experienced by a Ugandan shifting homes from Entebbe to Kampala. Pretoria is a laager homely, family-guarding and trib
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15 Jul 2024

A close listen: Jazz pro, healer and scholar stuns with depth of meaning and musicality

F ollowing on Modes of Communication: Letters from the Underworlds (2020) and In the Spirit of Ntu (2022), in his third release, uNomkhubulwa , South Africas internationally acclaimed pianist, composer, educator Nduduzo Makhathini offers 11 original compositions in his highly personal f
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12 Jul 2024

How Unfiltered at the Heat Festival challenges artistic boundaries

In 2017, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Lyon, France, was forced to remove Algerian artist Adel Abdessemeds video Printemps after a social media outcry. The video features a row of chickens being engulfed in CGI fire. Labelled a barbaric deviance by one Twitter user, Printemps was de
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12 Jul 2024

FULL COVERAGE Cyril Ramaphosa is inaugurated

Cyril Ramaphosa will be sworn in for another term as president on Wednesday, while the Government of National Unity (GNU) negotiating teams are still consulting on cabinet and parliamentary portfolio positions. In terms of the law, there is no deadline for Ramaphosa to name his cabinet.
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19 Jun 2024

FULL COVERAGE Ramaphosa appointed for second term as president

After two weeks of high drama, court applications, intense behind the scenes negotiations - and waiting - the highly anticipated first sitting of the National Assembly and crucial KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng provincial legislatures takes place at 10am today. READ | MG coalitions hub <
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15 Jun 2024

LIVE South Africas coalition countdown

After two weeks of high drama, court applications, intense behind the scenes negotiations - and waiting - the highly anticipated first sitting of the National Assembly and crucial KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng provincial legislatures takes place at 10am today. READ | MG coalitions hub <
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14 Jun 2024

How Groote Schuur and a bit of tango primed Ntobeko Ntusi to head up the South African Medical Research Council

T o get to Groote Schuur Hospital, one must at least travel some way on Cape Towns Main Road, which runs between the two original enclaves of European settlement at the Cape the Castle of Good Hope, built by the East India Company to defend its stake at the tip of the continent, and the
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10 Jun 2024

Election 2024: The centre could hold or things could fall apart

NEWS ANALYSIS T he election results have reshaped South Africas political landscape. How did it happen? And what happens next? MK. Thats what happened. Like in the movie Jaws. Just when you thought it was safe to get back into the water, Jacob Zuma has returne
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09 Jun 2024

Its a GNU party and (almost) everybody is invited

T he ANCs national executive committee (NEC) sat on Thursday to confirm who to include in its proposed government of national unity (GNU) and how it would work, paving the way for the next round of talks with other political parties. The meeting was still under way at the time
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07 Jun 2024