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The paradox of customary marriages

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Just because they are performed differently from civil unions does not mean they don’t come with the same responsibilities — people just don’t know it
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The story as a creative psychological quest

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To combat anxiety in a disrupted, pandemic-riddled world, it’s better to channel creativity into storytelling, art and design than into conspiracy theories
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Indians in South Africa, a historical excerpt

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In the book, The Indian Africans, academic Kiru Naidoo explores the society of colonial Natal in the late 1800s to early 1900
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Indigenous food revivalists are cooking up a spiritual connection

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Culinary activists such as Zayaan Khan and Tapiwa Guzha are prompting us to revisit and reclaim familiar, familial and traditional identities
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The Portfolio: George Tatakis

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The Greek photographer is on a quest to document traditional costumes around the country
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Black futures in the age of apocalypse

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Curating the End of the World deploys Afrofuturism to respond to Covid-19, anti-black violence and capitalism
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Africa needs businesses that build and strengthen the continent

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Africans should know by now that they can’t depend on leaders and should rather learn to do it themselves
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Children left speechless, denied identity

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Parents think it benefits children to lose their African language, but it leaves them lost instead
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Is kwaito an old thing yet?

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Kwaito was born during South Africa’s transition to democracy and lives on as a kind of heritage
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Extract from ‘Born to Kwaito’: How we choose to fashion ourselves

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How we choose to dress is an instrument to communicate personal, race, class, gender and identity politics, as discussed in this extract from ‘Born to Kwaito’
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Leadership themes for building an inclusive South African workplace culture

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A more authentically inclusive culture can be fostered by emotionally astute leaders in four particular ways
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Eusebius McKaiser: A school’s Christian ethos doesn’t justify prejudice

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Christian Life Private School barred a pupil because he wore a bracelet with cultural significance, but the decision — even in the private sphere — is constitutionally wrong
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Reproducing Festac ’77: A secret among a family of millions

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An interview with Chimurenga founder Ntone Edjabe about his latest project
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Cancel culture, threats to freedom of speech, and the state of liberal democracy

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Although Ian Buruma was removed as the editor-in-chief of the New York Review of Books in September 2018, he still speaks his mind
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Once upon a time in Benin…

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At an annual festival, griots pass on stories to younger generations to keep their history alive
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