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Diary: Generation of Hope, Balinese Girl, Choreographies of the Impossible
Born Free: Generation of Hope exhibition In celebration of 30 years of South African democracy, the Apartheid Museum and the Nelson Mandela Foundation present Born Free: Generation of Hope. This compelling photographic exhibition by Dutch photographer Ilvy Njiokiktjien document
Hawks circle over ANC heavyweights Mabuyakhulu and Nkonyeni as Gaston Savoi makes deal with NPA
S everal ANC KwaZulu-Natal provincial heavyweights appear to be back in the National Prosecuting Authoritys (NPA) sights over the 14-year-old R144 million Amigos corruption case , which returns to court next month. Uruguayan tenderpreneur Gaston Savoi who was charged along with
Diary: Jokes Jazz Returns to UKZN, Strauss Co present an auction dedicated to photography, Southern Africa-Locarno Industry Academy comes to Cape Town
Jokes Jazz hosts founder Troy Tesla in KZN South Africas premier comedy and jazz series, Jokes Jazz, returns to the University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN) Centre for Jazz and Popular Music on Tuesday, 10 September at 5.30pm. Hosted by award-winning comedian and UKZN gradua
Inside The Shakedown: The dangerously funny South African crime caper
Cape Town-based crime comedy The Shakedown is Amazon Prime Videos first ever South African original film. Ive always loved the genre of crime comedy, says its writer and director Ari Kruger during an interview with the Mail Guardian. So it was a huge honour to be the first production co
On their radar: How Allies captured Hitlers technology
Adolf Hitler was, to put it in the words of my kindly mother, not a very nice man. In other words, he was a brutal monster. The reason I feel the need to state this brain-numbingly obvious fact is because some of the things Im about to say about Hitlers army out on the battlefield may b
Yolanda Mazwanas artistic journey offers the body as site of eroticism and self-discovery
In an intimate and playful offering What Her Body Does brings together paintings and ceramic sculptures, subtly teasing at the thread of desire, the feminine and explorations of self. The first major solo exhibition by Yolanda Mazwana at Kalashnikovv Gallery in Cape Town, What Her Body Does is a
Voters will make ActionSA pay for working with ANC, EFF, says mayor Cilliers Brink
T he Democratic Alliances (DAs) Tshwane mayor, Cilliers Brink , has warned its coalition partner ActionSA that voters will make it pay for collapsing the coalition in the metro municipality in favour of forming a new government with the ANC and the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF).
Your guide to FNB Art Joburg
When Lerato Bereng flew into Joburg on Monday morning from Nigeria it was from one party week a friends wild wedding in Lagos to another such week at FNB Art Joburg. When I landed here, I could already feel the city was vibrating with excitement, said the Stevenson Gallery director. Im
The truth about Cape slavery and historical misrepresentations
M y 2020 book, The Lie of 1652 , explores lesser-known aspects of South African history that challenge a number of untruths and misrepresentations, such as the so-called empty land theory, aka terra nullius, distortions and lies regarding the 1652 foundation of the Dutch colony and the