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Sat, 13 Feb 2021 21:35:44 +0000Portfolio committee pins hope on new Nsfas boss and board to turn scheme around
The new leaders of the student funding scheme inherit years of instability and poor financial records
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Sat, 13 Feb 2021 19:19:56 +0000‘We’re fighting to breathe clean air’
The state has filed its opposition to the Deadly Air case, with the environment minister claiming no causal link can be found between air pollution and ill health
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Sat, 13 Feb 2021 19:10:00 +0000The pensioner who ‘fronted’ for R10m of a family’s capture of SAPS
An old-age grant recipient was allegedly paid just R5 000 a month to be a director of one of the Chetty-owned companies
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Sat, 13 Feb 2021 01:06:46 +0000The monstrous mental asylum: Lewis Nkosi writing home
Apartheid SA’s madness, as diagnosed in the exiled author’s subversive texts, was the result of colonialism’s psychological violence
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Sat, 13 Feb 2021 01:00:08 +0000The many meanings of water: The elements in Thobani K’s photography
Influenced by family history and the legacy of apartheid spatial zoning, Thobani K’s photographs are sociopolitically engaged
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Sat, 13 Feb 2021 00:52:05 +0000The Portfolio: Wezile Mgibe
Drawn to collaboration, Wezile Mgibe seeks new ways of performing and presenting his work
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Sat, 13 Feb 2021 00:44:14 +0000Racism has a physical impact on the black body
While the effects of racism on the body are still coming into fuller view, the information is enough to eclipse outdated nature vs nurture debates
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Sat, 13 Feb 2021 00:36:25 +0000The allure of redemption
American Skin is drowned by its own ambitions, which are at odds with the moment it seeks to reckon with
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Fri, 12 Feb 2021 19:00:00 +0000‘Unconscionable’: The race to stop Israel from selling weapons to Uganda
Ugandan and Israeli activists have called for the licence permitting arms sales to be revoked, but expect next week’s hearing to be held in camera
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Fri, 12 Feb 2021 19:00:00 +0000ANC’s eThekwini region says party must back Magashule and Zuma
The eThekwini branches say they will engage the party’s regional and national structures to prevent Magashule and Zuma’s ‘persecution’
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