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Sat, 13 Feb 2021 01:06:46 +0000The monstrous mental asylum: Lewis Nkosi writing home
Apartheid SA’s madness, as diagnosed in the exiled author’s subversive texts, was the result of colonialism’s psychological violence
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Sat, 13 Feb 2021 01:00:08 +0000The many meanings of water: The elements in Thobani K’s photography
Influenced by family history and the legacy of apartheid spatial zoning, Thobani K’s photographs are sociopolitically engaged
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Sat, 13 Feb 2021 00:52:05 +0000The Portfolio: Wezile Mgibe
Drawn to collaboration, Wezile Mgibe seeks new ways of performing and presenting his work
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Sat, 13 Feb 2021 00:44:14 +0000Racism has a physical impact on the black body
While the effects of racism on the body are still coming into fuller view, the information is enough to eclipse outdated nature vs nurture debates
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Sat, 13 Feb 2021 00:36:25 +0000The allure of redemption
American Skin is drowned by its own ambitions, which are at odds with the moment it seeks to reckon with
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Fri, 12 Feb 2021 19:00:00 +0000Q&A Sessions: ‘Post Office was a journey of faith’
Mark Barnes, the former South African Post Office chief executive, talks to Nicolene de Wee about the highlights of his 30-year career in finance and markets. The 64-year-old father of six discusses the country’s financial services sector, his art...
Fri, 12 Feb 2021 19:00:00 +0000Pandemic punishes the young
Children are displaying unusual behaviour as a consequence of the Covid-19 clampdown
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Fri, 12 Feb 2021 19:00:00 +0000Eskom will push up the price of electricity, even though its sales have been dwindling
The law of demand says that the higher the price of a good is, the less people will demand it. But Eskom, sales of electricity have been dropping, yet the utility wants consumers to even pay more for its good
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Fri, 12 Feb 2021 19:00:00 +0000ANC’s eThekwini region says party must back Magashule and Zuma
The eThekwini branches say they will engage the party’s regional and national structures to prevent Magashule and Zuma’s ‘persecution’
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Fri, 12 Feb 2021 17:26:22 +0000Sona 21: Malnutrition, Mr President, should be a ‘foremost, overriding priority’
Covid-19 has increased South Africa’s already dire child malnutrition levels, and the extension of the R350 special grant is not enough to change this
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