The sprawling physical bulk of the current airport is a short story written in numbers.
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/ 7 November 2011
Prince Charles recently visited South Africa on a whistle-stop tour to discuss trade and investment, unemployment, and visit local royalty.
What happens when an art critic becomes an investigator of organised crime and corruption?
When a bust of Hendrik Verwoerd disappeared into the night in Midvaal, the question arose: What actually happens to the statues from our sordid past?
<b>Sean O’Toole</b> and <b>Paul Botes</b> take a journey along the border from Pontdrift to south of Komatipoort to find the gaps in a broken system.
Famous artist William Kentridge’s brief stint as a cartoonist for the <i>Weekly Mail</i> was marked by trepidation.
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/ 22 December 2010
Being stuck in traffic is a state of being in SA cities. And if estimates are right, it’s only going to get worse, says <b>Sean O’Toole</b>.
Photographer Marc Shoul’s black-and-white <i>Flatlands</i> finds moments of poignant silence in the hustle and bustle of the Johannesburg CBD.
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/ 15 December 2006
Time and experience have proven to be heavy ballasts for Deon Snyman. When we first met five years ago he spoke with a naive determination, now his words feel heavy, his ambitions scuffed and bruised but still resolute. “I am married to the idea of the symbolism of this place,” he enthusiastically told me in 2001.
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/ 12 December 2005
Nowadays, South Africa’s media training institutions all agree that students should be trained to think critically about the broad forces shaping a post-apartheid society. Sean O’Toole compares the curriculums and asks whether tuition is succeeding.