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Fri, 05 Feb 2021 19:00:00 +0000R100-million: How one family captured the police
The family-run syndicate behind the alleged scam may have looted even more — as much as R1-billion
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Fri, 05 Feb 2021 19:00:00 +0000Kruger loses 70% of rhinos in 10 years
The good news is that the drought has eased, poaching is down and the environment department is now not only focusing on the poachers but is going after crime syndicates
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Fri, 05 Feb 2021 15:14:55 +0000African Blogtable: NBA All Star picks
Every month the African Blogtable brings together some of the top basketball minds from across the continent to answer the most pressing questions related to the 2020-21 NBA season
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Fri, 05 Feb 2021 15:04:44 +0000Give Zuma a chance to reconsider defying ConCourt, says Ramaphosa
The former president is being advised by various leaders to appear before the state capture commission
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Fri, 05 Feb 2021 14:57:33 +0000The Portfolio: Geoff Dyer
In this extract from But Beautiful, the writer Geoff Dyer reflects on how photographs ‘work on you’
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Fri, 05 Feb 2021 14:51:53 +0000How Babette’s Feast illuminates migrants’ stories
‘Babette’s Feast’ by Isak Dinesen delves into the minutiae of 1870s migration through a Frenchwoman who finds herself living in Norway, where she is denied her artistic passion
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Fri, 05 Feb 2021 14:45:47 +0000The state of the (performing) arts: Theatres try to find their groove
Theatres are opening (and closing) again in fits and starts, driven by a fierce determination to bounce back
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Fri, 05 Feb 2021 14:40:00 +0000Zondo to consider ANC leaders’ role in abetting state capture
Evidence presented at the commission points to the governing party’s MPs not being allowed to carry out their oversight functions
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Fri, 05 Feb 2021 14:38:18 +0000The Insider’s guide to travelling without moving: Power, empathy and threads that connect at the Göteborg Film Festival
Niren Tolsi returns to a time before the pandemic brought on travel restrictions to ponder what is being lost in a world that is confined to itself
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Fri, 05 Feb 2021 14:30:49 +0000State, private sector launch gender-based violence fund
Funded by the private sector, the government will be able to ‘scale up’ initiatives against this second pandemic
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