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Anti-apartheid actors protest outside the South African embassy in London. (PA Images/Getty Images)
AMILCAR CABRAL

Whither the arts in South Africa’s permanent crisis? The flawed logic of singling out Nathi Mthethwa

It is the ANC as a whole that maintains a bureaucratic view of the arts, failing to afford it its proper place in society

  • Njabulo Zwane
5 min read
Tobacco products have been banned since Cyril Ramaphosa announced the nationwide lockdown. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)
ALEX CAREY

Profit vs pandemic: British American Tobacco’s Covid-19 stunt

The tyranny of the markets is evident, with the cigarette company exemplifying this through its bid to weaken the government’s measures to stop the spread of the coronavirus

  • Mukovhe Morris Masutha
7 min read