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The viewer is in total control when navigating a website named after Herri the Strandloper, a soundmine of narratives and ideas
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Heritage foods are on the menu

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Local members of the Slow Food movement are working to save traditional ingredients
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Indian Ocean Africa

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To understand the oceans, you must understand the people who live next to them
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Developer withdraws interdict against Bo-Kaap

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Blok, a property development company, has withdrawn its interdict against Bo-Kaap residents in the “spirit of de-escalation”
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Symposium for black artists steps out of the colonial prism

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A biennial event has sprung up to provide a forum for black artists and intellectuals to meet
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Rural reflections: notes on time well-spent

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A holiday with my grandmother shows me another way of life, one with different ways of being.
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The battle to rebuild Jo’burg’s historic laundry buildings has finally been won

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The Rand Steam Laundries structures, one of a kind on the Reef, were demolished illegally in 2008.
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Goodbye Bree Street

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Tinyiko Maluleke's nostalgia takes him back to Bree Street in Johannesburg, which has been renamed to honour ANC struggle stalwart Lilian Ngoyi.
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Bitter+Sweet: A cookbook offers a taste of heritage

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Like so much else linked to our past, even our most delicious dishes are tainted by our troubled history.
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Mooki Street embodies the spirit of Orlando

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A walk along a road in Soweto's oldest suburb will lead you to a cradle of heritage sites.
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Twist memory and you distort identity

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The truth of our past is being airbrushed out of our minds for the sake of nation-building.
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Heritage Day: Braai, and braai proudly!

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As the debate rages on about the commercialisation of Heritage Day, in the absence of a better suggestion Faranaaz Parker sticks with the chops.
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Carol-Mari Schulz received the Bachelor of Health Sciences in Occupational Hygiene Top Achiever Award.
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Academic programme resumes at all campuses

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