Michael Benjamin (on the music midnight makes)
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Bandleader. Composer. Living Legend. McCoy Mrubata doesn’t follow the rhythm; he creates the heartbeat. His latest offering, Children On The Frontline, is more than an album, it is a manifesto. South African jazz in its purest, most provocative form. This Sunday #TKJS
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Award-winning author, Barbara Boswell, is our special guest on Crossing The Line. She talks about her books, including The Comrade's Wife and Grace, as well as about the challenges faced by black women in academia. Please watch, like, subscribe and share. https://t.co/1ljoATnzuZ
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Professor Barbara Boswell, author of The Comrade's Wife and Grace, talks about her books as well as the difficulties of being a black woman in academia in the latest episode of Crossing The Line Podcast. 📢 📢 📢 Please watch, like, subscribe and share. https://t.co/Kb9H5iTQKg
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A new South African video game lets players take back African artefacts held in western museums in a series of heists, amid a growing campaign to repatriate treasures looted by colonial armies.
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Creators say they’re offering Africans a ‘hopeful, utopian feeling’ of retrieving objects looted by colonial armies
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I know it’s 12:20. But please take your time and listen to this Vincent Kompany statement about the racism incident around Vini Jr. against Benfica. Succinct, differentiated and absolutely on point. Brilliant words. https://t.co/zH5P5D2kVy
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It’s amazing how effortlessly FIFA has slipped into becoming the branding partner of genocide washing.
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South African Band, @tkzeeband also used the "Big Yellow Taxi" sample from the dear Joni Mitchell who never lies. What a legendary song, one of the most sampled. She's a magogo now, still singing her amazing songs... and im here for it.
🔴Black America and 1970s South Africa: A Shared Diasporic Connection in Janet Jackson’s Got ’Til It’s Gone Music Video By staging apartheid-era South Africa through the lens of Black America musical production, Janet Jackson’s Got ’Til It’s Gone music video draws a visual and
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Looking forward to this Sunday’s #JazzAndBeyond featuring acclaimed legendary pianist and composer #PaulHanmer presenting his new music that pays tribute to the late @FeyaFaku and more… “Come for the Jazz and stay for a good time” on @Radio702 & @CapeTalk & @PrimediaPlus
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JAZZ ON JAZZ: This Sunday at 10h on @Powerfm987 #POWERWeek: Join me for an exclusive chat with jazz curator and broadcaster @nothembaujx as she reveals her ultimate favourite tracks. A promise: No Kenny G.
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Victim of police brutality, Johnny Mashiane, a 15-year-old activist, spent a month in a psychiatric hospital following his release from detention. A normal child before his arrest, barely able to speak after his release. Footage from the 1986 documentary Witness to Apartheid by
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"We will appeal this ruling, irrespective of whether we are able to realise the exhibition as planned." – South African artist Gabrielle Goliath standing strong against the odds... and the fascists. #art #VeniceBiennale #Artist #Nogenocide
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The artist and the curator Ingrid Masondo will be challenging the decision handed down by a judge from South Africa’s high court
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Kubushi J in Goliath case gave no reasons for her order. Reasons are an essential part of the judicial function. Here, the lack of reasons puts possibility of an urgent appeal at risk. It is a rule of law issue. See Goldstone J in the 1998 ConCourt judgment of Mphahlele v FNB
Goliath vs McKenzie: Court blocks Venice Biennale challenge
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Johnny Liew on Vincius, Mourinho and racism
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Johnny Liew on Vincius, Mourinho and racism
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The Brazilian has seen this before, football has seen this before, and yet why does it feel like nothing ever changes?
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The department of trade, industry & competition says it is planning to regulate gambling advertising, responding to growing pressure from civil society and political parties over the scourge of gambling in the country.
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The regulations aim to address concerns about the influence of gambling ads on minors
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A poisoned Siphiwo Mthimkhulu visited by his comrades at Livingstone hospital. During his last detention at the Sanlam building police hq, Mthimkhulu was given a deadly poison called Thallium and immediately released to go and die at home. Mthimkhulu and his comrade Topsy Madak
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