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/ 30 August 2006

Hit but still jumping

<i>Tapsula</i>, a new Market Theatre production, puts pantsula dancers in tap shoes and transforms tap from a sleek dance form to a gyrating surge of force with furious arm swinging and determined stomping. Together they are like a herd of springboks in tap shoes – hit by a car, but still jumping, writes Benjamin Joffe-Walt.

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/ 31 May 2004

Genocide in the desert

Genocide is an enormous word for a 12-year-old. Adam Erenga, one of more than a million new refugees in Sudan’s western Darfur regions, does not understand the term ethnic cleansing and knows nothing of the accusations of government-militia collusion. What he knows about is Arab "Janjaweed" men on horses, and his entire family shot dead in his burning house.

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/ 19 April 2004

Cape of good returns

Selling Africa to non-Africans is becoming an institution. At exhibitions, shopping malls and estate agencies across Europe, people are buying up the South African coast. The government, land activists and residents look askance at the European invasion of the coastal property market.

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