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Amaxelegu – Review

It is the 2020s in unfriendly and disengaged Philipi, one of Cape Town’s youngest townships with no more than forty years of history. A visibly tired and sluggish Mama Priscilla (N...

By Xolani Tembu

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Culture / 15/08/24

‘The Dead Will Arise’: A Review of These Potatoes Look Like Humans: The Contested Future of Land, Home and Death in South Africa

Central to European colonial conquest which laid the foundation for white settler colonialism in ‘conqueror South Africa’(Ramose 2018) since 1652 is the violent dispossession of the land of the Indigenous people by Europ...

By Masilo Lepuru

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Review - Poet-O-Type

By Pulane Mafatshe

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Ka Lebitso La Moya - Misled to Not-So-Green Pastures

The production tells the story of the community of Ha Satane, a fictional township plagued by unemployment, poverty, and crime. Salvation seems to come in the form of a new priest,...

By Ketsia Velaphi

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Culture / 25/07/24

Language As Land: Nurturing Cultural Identity & Intellectual Diversity

The same people who revel in citing philosophical, political, religious, and intellectual traditions from Europe, Asia, and so forth that are named after people are likely to cringe, frown, and fret if one were to choose...

By Mphutlane wa Bofelo

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White Settler Colonialism & Electoral Politics in “South Africa”

By Masilo Lepuru

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Fallacy: The ANC History of South Africa

“Nothing can be changed until it is faced.” is the tagline for Tara Moore’s debut documentary, Legacy: The De-Colonized History of South Africa. So let us face the documentary, whi...

By Tshiamo Malatji

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Culture / 21/06/24

Engaging "We, the Purple"

"We the Purple" centers around the pivotal 1994 elections and the symbolic Purple Rain Protest of 1989. Through a unique blend of visual, auditory, and tactile elements, the exhibition offers a multifaceted exploration o...

By Tsakani Shingange