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Matthew Wilhelm-Solomon is a lecturer in anthropology at the University of the Witwatersrand and a research associate of the Migration and Health Project Southern Africa.
South Africa’s biggest city is ground zero for debates about the long-term effectiveness and constitutionality of militarised urban policing and how we imagine the post-Covid city
The fall from World Cup fever to presidential skulduggery has been swift in both countries.
The fall from World Cup fever to presidential skulduggery has been swift in both countries.
While the job of spirit medium is hardly new, it has been given currency by the survival difficulties encountered by the city’s migrant population.
Behind an apparently amorphous multitude are distinct individuals, each with a particular mission.
An innovative festival takes audiences through Jo’burg and brings fairy-tale fantasies to life.
The recent launch of expansion plans for the Maboneng precinct raises the question: Just who will be left out of the inner-city plan?
An analysis of a deadly mine conflict in 1994 offers clues to the origins of the Marikana tragedy.
Foreigners in Middelburg, Mpumalanga, allege that the local council is working hand in glove with local business people to shut down their shops.
Suburbanites’ fears are defining the architecture of Johannesburg.
"Afrique, Afrique, Afrique!" cried Tumi Molekane of Tumi and the Volume, ending an electric hip-hop set at the Africa Day celebrations in Newtown.
The Freedom Park housing settlement on the outskirts of Eldorado Park has become the centre of xenophobic mobilisation in Gauteng.
Gilberto Gil, one of Brazil’s best-known musicians, landed on South African tarmac last week.
Migrants face a multitude of health issues in Jozi inner city.
Like weeds growing through cracks, Jo Ractliffe’s photos draw attention to Angolan war history
After dusk on Saturday February 21, the FNB Dance Umbrella opens with Screen Factor 8. Directed and choreographed by Sue Pam-Grant, produced by Blue Moon and featuring the Moving…
As the National Arts Festival drew the curtains for 2004, Matthew Wilhelm-Solomon reflects on the cast of characters that filled the theatres and auditoriums, as well as the…
Reza de Wets’s imaginative landscape is instantly recognisable, writes Matthew Wilhelm-Solomon of the striking and lingering <i>Breathing In</i>.
Sophocles’s classic is rearticulated in a context of terrorism, Aids and globalisation in Antigone. John Kani stars. Matthew Wilhelm-Solomon reviews.
<i>Nguni: A Love Story</i> explores some of the tensions between the rights of women and some aspects of Zulu tradition in today’s climate. Matthew Wilhelm-Solomon reviews.
