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REVIEW – The Parrot Woman
The year is 1990. President F.W. de Klerk announces the beginning of the end of apartheid, the release of Nelson Mandela and other political prisoners, and the end of the South Afr...
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Cecil John Rhodes: British Empire Hitman
“We fight Rhodes because he means so much for oppression, injustice, & moral degradation to South Africa - but if he passed away tomorrow there still remains the terrible fact that something...
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Ten years on the road.
Trouble at every turn.
Longer-lasting licences offer one bright turn as the Madlanga Commission examines alleged police corruption and Tshwane confronts a grim discovery behind a spaza-shop door.
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We Still Insist: Kudzanai & Mogorosi @ Conhill
The Library of Things We Forgot to Remember and What’s Wrong With Groovin’? bring you a wonderful readaptation of Max Roach's We Still Insist avant-garde jazz album and a vocal-instrumental suite on themes related to the...
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September: Critical Moments in Radical Resistance History
The 12th of September marks the 45th anniversary of the brutal murder in detention of one of our preeminent Black Power Warriors, uBab’uBantu Biko.
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The Firm: International Thief Thief
Some people don’t even need to kill a mosquito to keep you at the bottom: dispossessed, landless and destitute. And while many view monarchs as weak and largely symbolic entities, the British monarchy ranks among the wea...
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Trev The Japanese: On the Avant-garde Deluge
Trev’s music collection was just for pleasure and playing for friends. With his pocket money, collecting music will be his devotion. This started while he was in Giyani and he will...
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On The Erasure and Silencing of Black Women
There are many reasons for this. For one, the logic of patriarchy tells us it is unimaginable that black women are also able to do what men can do, let alone perform better than men. It is because of this neurosis that h...
By Inam Kula
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The Paucity of Black Intellectuals
My study on this phenomenon revealed that a significant number of black intellectuals and potential ones left the country, either to work or study abroad, as it was challenging to do so in a...
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