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It has displays covering art, history, dinosaurs, nuclear energy, craftwork and music as well as live animals, for it is also a zoo

Maaza Mengiste: ‘We are now catching up with the past’

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As war drums beat again in Ethiopia, author Maaza Mengiste finds new language to memorialise the Second Italo-Ethiopian War

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Friday Saaiqa - 29 Oct 2020

Photographer Saaiqa shares the story of how she captured this picture that reflects both the socioeconomic realities of our country and simple companionship

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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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Women photographers, and black African women photographers in particular, are largely absent from early histories of the medium. This is slowly changing

Omar Badsha: Recording the roles of the ordinary

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Saho’s Omar Badsha believes in the power of people telling their own stories, but more funding to support this practice is crucial

A quick trek to ancient Egypt during lockdown

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Well, the pharaonic Voortrekker Monument to be precise for John Davenport

Oxford’s position on Rhodes Must Fall is bad politics — and even worse history

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It is misleading to use Nelson Mandela’s name to defend the Cecil John Rhodes statue

Tobacco and a tipple gave comfort during times of war

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Allied forces in the two world wars were provided with cigarettes. The anti-smoking Nazis used taxes on tobacco to help fill Germany’s depleted coffers

Blowtorch prose hits the spot

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Filled with great skill and craftsmanship, Fred Khumalo’s short stories are exceptional

Reimagining sites of basic education

Article Staff Reporter - 25 Jan 2019

Knowledge gaps can be plugged without always changing compulsory subjects for matric pupils

School history curriculum overhaul mooted

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Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga has asked that the history curriculum become more comprehensive and well-rounded

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Maths and physical science pass rates show a decline, even after leaked papers

The Portfolio: Tshepiso Mazibuko

Niger museum is eclectic national ‘mirror’

Maaza Mengiste: ‘We are now catching up with the past’

The Portfolio: Saaiqa

Black futures in the age of apocalypse

Reframing women in Namibia’s early history of photography

Omar Badsha: Recording the roles of the ordinary

A quick trek to ancient Egypt during lockdown

Oxford’s position on Rhodes Must Fall is bad politics — and even worse history

Tobacco and a tipple gave comfort during times of war

Blowtorch prose hits the spot

Reimagining sites of basic education

School history curriculum overhaul mooted

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