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Why it’s crucial to collaborate

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We are able to achieve meaningful social change better, and faster, if we act together
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Heritage Month leaves much to be desired

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Our economy may have doubled since 1994, but this growth has not trickled down to improve the livelihoods of the majority of South Africans
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Human Rights Day: South Africa continues to neglect the legacy of Robert Sobukwe

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The memory of the influential former leader of the Pan-Africanist Congress has been shunted to the margins in the country’s sham democracy
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SA has a legacy of trauma

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Transforming the symbols of apartheid violence is not the endpoint of addressing our heritage
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Multicultural SA offers a great benefit

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Understanding and being able to work with different people is a globally sought-after skill
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Children must be able to read with comprehension about their heritage

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Literacy in South Africa has to improve if people are to have a better quality of life
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Our stories adorn us

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The meaning of traditional attire is being lost. But does it matter? Gogo Jessie Mabona thinks it does
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Black Panther is more than just representation

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It has awoken in me a sense of pride and dignity I had no idea I had lost from all those many years of being erased in international public discourse
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The granular affects of the ordinary

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We contain multitudes in our everydayness. Youlendree Appasamy tries to unpick the meaning — or lack of it — in ordinary interactions and feelings
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Zuma blames apartheid for corruption

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"Let us unite against corruption and crime in our communities and in our country. These scourges should not divide us at all"
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And God said: ‘Go braai, hang or whatever’

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'South Africa, God loved you and left you a precious heirloom: Heritage Day, a day off from work to be spent at home or elsewhere'
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Heritage Day: Diary of a white English-speaking South African

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Many just go out there and braai but others spend the day obsessing about identity, what is cultural, whose culture and whether it's appropriation.
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Rand slips to all-time low on heritage day

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As SA markets took the day off on heritage day the rand dipped past 14 to the dollar for the second time in four weeks and slipped to an all-time low.
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Sophiatown gets back in the mix for heritage month

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Sophiatown Heritage and Cultural Centre has become a lighthouse for a cultural expansion into a future Sophiatown cultural and heritage precinct.
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Why heritage should be used to interpret the past and forge the future

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Many South Africans have come to associate Heritage Day with a good opportunity to have a braai, but it's so much more than that.
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