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Sat, 01 May 2021 04:06:44 +0000Escape from Pretoria: ‘Our cells were on the first floor, so there was nowhere to dig to’
How Tim Jenkin, Stephen Lee and Alexandre Moumbaris escaped Pretoria Central with a handmade wooden key
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Sat, 01 May 2021 04:00:56 +0000Matthew Krouse’s ‘mid-career retrospective of a no career’
An exhibition of Matthew Krouse’s underground films reveal an agitator awed by the tradition of ‘dirty queers’
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Sat, 01 May 2021 03:53:58 +0000The voices in Makhafula Vilakazi’s head
A poet raised in transit, Makhafula Vilakazi speaks from the margins, even as he has almost escaped them
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Sat, 01 May 2021 03:50:05 +0000The Portfolio: John Phalane’s art ‘gives me a sense of being myself’
Emanating from years spent behind the wheel, the artist’s style is part memory, part imagination
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Sat, 01 May 2021 03:45:24 +0000‘Skemerdans’: A mal interpretation of Cape Flats nightlife
Amy Jephta and Ephraim Gordon have written and directed a noir TV series that evokes nostalgia as well as tension and violence
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Sat, 01 May 2021 03:37:19 +0000Chichu Art Museum: ‘A site to rethink the relationship between nature and people’
A visit to Japanese art island Chichu is both a meditation and an education
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Fri, 30 Apr 2021 19:30:00 +0000Surveillance capitalists overthrow the sovereignty of individuals
Disinformation — turbocharged by social media algorithms — buries lies and propaganda in 'facts'.
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Fri, 30 Apr 2021 19:00:00 +0000State of play after 400 days of lockdown
With about 1.5-million infections and 54 000 deaths, Covid-19 is still very much part of our lives as the state works to boost vaccinations
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Fri, 30 Apr 2021 19:00:00 +0000SIU moves on eThekwini housing scam
The developer allegedly secured illegal funding from the housing regulatory authority
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Fri, 30 Apr 2021 19:00:00 +0000Rebel ANC branches reject ‘stand-aside’ rule
Corruption charged eThekwini councillors and former mayor Zandile Gumede have been nominated
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