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Culture

Pimples: Spear us your heritage
Videos
/ 5 September 2012

Pimples: Spear us your heritage

It’s that time of year when we remember our heritage and celebrate our cultural diversity. For the Pimples, it’s about letting it all hang out. Watch the video.

By Staff Reporter and Pimples
Mpho Moshe Matheolane: Living with culture, letting it go
Article
/ 1 August 2012

Mpho Moshe Matheolane: Living with culture, letting it go

Debates around cultural practices like lobola will always become a spectacle if they don’t address its relevance to the people who practise it.

By Mpho Moshe Matheolane
National culture: We need to talk about it
Article
/ 29 May 2012

National culture: We need to talk about it

Using art as a nation-building tool? South Africans first need to address the way they speak to one another, argues Mpho Moshe Matheolane.

By Mpho Moshe Matheolane
No image available
Article
/ 7 October 2011

Confusing race and culture

Would life be better lived as a person than as a woman, a black person or as any other classification?

By Milisuthando Bongela
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Article
/ 24 May 2011

Qatar denies World Cup corruption claims

The Qatar Football Association has said Qatar won the right to host the 2022 World Cup fairly and squarely and not by corrupt methods.

By Staff Reporter
Baptism of fire
Article
/ 8 April 2011

Baptism of fire

For the uninitiated, firewalking is an overwhelming visual and spiritual experience.

By Staff Reporter
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Article
/ 8 April 2011

‘I want my kids to be righteous and Rasta’

A community of Rastafarians in Soweto struggles to get the message of its faith through to its neighbours, writes <b>Ayanda Sitole</b>.

By Ayanda Sitole
Leopard pelt trader gets off scot-free
Article
/ 11 February 2011

Leopard pelt trader gets off scot-free

Conservationists suspect political interference after muti man’s trial is thrown out of court.

By Fiona Macleod
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Article
/ 16 November 2010

French cuisine named a ‘world intangible heritage’

Unesco declares French cuisine to be a world tangible heritage, creating the first gastronomy entry into the list.

By Staff Reporter
Making a song and dance of sex
Article
/ 27 July 2010

Making a song and dance of sex

I had two very different ideas of romantic affection drilled into me, with my Indian parents and Western home, writes <b>Ilham Rawoot</b>.

By Ilham Rawoot
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Article
/ 6 November 2009

Beyond culture’s clamour

Food makes mother-tongue speakers of us all and memoirs about food, family and homeland allow privileged glimpses into other cultures.

By Emma Chen
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Article
/ 12 October 2007

No Paris trip for Russia’s kissing policemen

It is an intriguing image. Shot among the birch trees and snow of a Siberian forest, two policemen kiss each other passionately on the lips. They hold and possibly caress each other’s buttocks. But the work by a Russian art collective has proved too much for Russia’s Culture Minister, Alexander Sokolov.

By Staff Reporter
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