Zinaid Meeran

Zinaid Meeran is a writer and filmmaker based in Cape Town. He is a founding member of art collective Team Tarbaby. He is the author of the novels Saracen at the Gates and Tanuki Ichiban.

Please don’t celebrate me: Nothing hurts more

Friday Zinaid Meeran - 30 Jun 2020

The Netflix series Sex Education shows that whether you’re celebrating or vilifying “the Other”, it’s all part of the same subjugation

What is this place?: The visual simulacrum of South Africa in the Covid-19 lockdown

Coronavirus Zinaid Meeran - 8 May 2020

Why is the visual depiction of this country in centre-left international online news publications so unrecognisable?

Covid-19 lockdown: Towards a capsule existence

Article Zinaid Meeran - 17 Apr 2020

How online media during the Coronavirus lockdown foreshadows a permanently encapsulated life

Press Releases

Special Reports

SingularityU Online Summit to contribute to SME growth in 2020

special reports - 23 Sep 2020

The global speakers lined up for this year's event will address the challenges and opportunities specifically facing small businesses

Special Reports

Policy priorities lie with urgent economic reforms

special reports - 23 Sep 2020

Professor Raymond Parsons believes that business and consumer sentiment in South Africa would both benefit from even lower borrowing costs

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Javett Art Centre at the University of Pretoria to reopen on Heritage Day

special reports - 22 Sep 2020

The new, drive-through sculpture exhibition brings to four the number of exhibitions of iconic African and South African art

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Request for Quotation for Benguela Current Convention Secretariat

special reports - 19 Sep 2020

A chartered aircraft for an aerial survey and counting software for cape fur seals and seabirds in Angola, Namibia and South Africa is required

Special Reports

Fifteen additional speakers for SingularityU SA Online Summit 2020

special reports - 18 Sep 2020

SingularityU hosts global line-up with an extra 15 speakers to address thought-provoking topics to help solve the world's grand challenges

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Recycling water and waste management

special reports - 18 Sep 2020

One solution to South Africa's water shortage is to install infrastructure that will save rainwater from run-off into the stormwater system

Special Reports

Covid-19 and CVD: The heart in the time of crisis

special reports - 18 Sep 2020

The pandemic has been a time of great humility for health workers and tactics have had to be changed if they weren’t working

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POPIA: it’s not as scary as you think

special reports - 16 Sep 2020

Companies that get proactive about compliance are creating huge strategic advantages for themselves — they are able to reduce operational costs