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- Making sense of the Arab Spring
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Percy Zvomuya spoke to Libyan novelist Hisham Matar in an attempt to understand what happened and where things are heading in North Africa.
- Monumental shortcomings of plastic
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Read an excerpt from Akin Adesokan's ongoing novel, You've Got to Learn to Look Stupid before Indians!
- African culture uncensored
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Percy Zvomuya delves into proverbs and finds the chauvinistic, the obscene and the dirty.
- The trappings of bondage
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Whipping boy Niren Tolsi enters the citadel of an uptown dominatrix.
- It's time to occupy, my friends
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People worldwide unite to free themselves from the shackles of dysfunctional systems.
- Facing down the new authoritarians
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It is not just press freedom that is under threat. Far from it. Nic Dawes on the assault on our Constitution.
- Freeganism: the final frontier?
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Rather than contributing to further waste, freegans aim to curtail garbage and pollution by reclaiming and using discarded goods.
- Ten ways green can set you free
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Fiona Macleod and Laura Grant explain that energy efficient needn't cost a fortune.
- Juju won't lead anti-Jacob Zuma dance
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An anti-Jacob Zuma lobby group in the ANC has asked embattled ANC Youth League president Julius Malema to step aside as the face of its campaign.
- No New Year textbooks for Limpopo learners
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Thousands of pupils in Limpopo will start school next year with no new textbooks because the education department did not order any.
