The Shaik brothers Moe, Schabir and Chippy after Schabir was found guilty of fraud and corruption and sentenced to 15 years.
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Moe Shaik fancies himself as an analyst who can read people well. And yet, he has a rather large blind spot for his leaders – until they fall out with him.
Set in the army during apartheid, the South African film Moffie is a masterpiece. Oliver Hermanus, a black filmmaker, explores how toxic white masculinity breeds racism and homophobia.
John Liebenberg in the ransacked hospital in Cubal, Angola, in 1993.
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No other photographer in southern Africa has documented war in the way that John Liebenberg did. He captured the life and the conflict of both sides in his body of work.
The long history of racist beauty standards alone cannot explain the ongoing global use of harmful skin lighteners.
Former South African President FW De Klerk at the opening of parliament recently. The Economic Freedom Fighters objected to his presence.
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Desmond Tutu is by far the most high-profile African, if not global, religious leader to support lesbian and gay rights, and he has done so since the 1970s.
The passing of music giant Joseph Shabalala rests heavy on South African hearts - he told the story of black migrants within the apartheid system in a way no-one else did - and achieved global fame.
Dag Hammarskjöld died along with 15 others when his plane crashed in Zambia.
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An archive project is restoring the secret history of Namibia’s resistance music culture from the 1950s to the late 1980s – suppressed and censored during apartheid but now touring the world.
South Africans celebrate the Springboks winning the 2019 Rugby Woirld Cup.
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Even though they were a product of apartheid’s propaganda broadcasting machine, Zulu language radio dramas proved subversively powerful by reflecting communal black life and creating new stars.
Helen Zille’s return to the top echelons of the Democratic Alliance has been slammed as an attempt to make the party white again.
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Mining companies and some heritage consultants don’t understand the sacredness attached to ancestral remains, and the meaning of land in African communities.
The Berlin Wall symbolised the Cold War divide between the capitalist West and communist Soviet Union.
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Marking the end of the Cold War offers the chance to reflect on the changes and continuities in African politics and international relations since 1989.
Participants strut their stuff at Miss Gay Western Cape.
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The springbok emblem was introduced under white rule in South Africa and by retaining it, it remains a burden for many South Africans who followed the Rugby World Cup.
England’s Owen Farrell in action during the Autumn International match at Twickenham Stadium, London, 2018.
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