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How the Joburg Contemporary Art Foundation promotes ‘slow’ looking

Friday Mary Corrigall - 27 Nov 2020

The new Joburg Contemporary Art Foundation compels visitors to contemplate and luxuriate in art, writes Mary Corrigall

Emery Mwazulu Diyabanza: Liberating Africa from land of liberté

Africa Samira Sawlani - 25 Oct 2020

The cultural and political activist is on a quest to bring looted treasures back home

Museum in a Box tells our stories

Africa Laura Kate Gibson - 12 Mar 2020

As efforts to repatriate Africa’s artefacts continue, a Zulu collective has hit upon a digital solution

Decolonisation can’t just be a metaphor

Article Greer Valley - 14 Nov 2019

Decolonising museums requires more than knowledge exchange and lending back stolen artefacts

SA’s disconnect from Africa limits cultural landscape

Article Mary Corrigall - 16 May 2019

South Africa’s identity issues are reflected in its lack of appreciation for pan-African art

Resistance Against The Repatriation Of African Artefacts

Article Leeto Thale - 5 Dec 2018

The justification of the refusal to repatriate artworks and artefacts to their homelands constitute the old practice of infantilising African nations

Jo’burg museums are decaying, but will privatising them create more problems?

Analysis Staff Reporter - 27 Apr 2017

We need a smart new public-private model to keep our heritage assets like galleries ship-shape.

Arts and Culture – Kawina Kawina

Article Mike Olivier - 20 Sep 2016

In this way he nurtured local talent and he has encouraged craft producers such as MmaMantshunyane and MmaDitshotlo to enter crafts competitions.

New York’s Met Museum showcases a world of Islamic treasures

Article Staff Reporter - 27 Oct 2011

The reopened department's galleries feature 12 000 objects that aim to promote 'mutual understanding and education'.

Farm where Mandela plotted becomes museum

Article Staff Reporter - 8 Jun 2008

It was just a farm, but what went on there was extraordinary: Nelson Mandela, disguised in blue overalls, plotting with other anti-apartheid leaders against South Africa's racist regime.

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Public protector’s ‘mistakes’ were made to nail the president, court hears

Sarah Smit - 26 Nov 2020

Busisiwe Mkhwebane discarded facts that were inconvenient to her when she investigated the CR17 campaign, Cyril Ramaphosa’s lawyers argued

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CR17 report is not perfect, but the investigation was rational, court hears

Sarah Smit - 26 Nov 2020

So says public protector Busisiwe Mkwhebane’s lawyer, who said she had reason to suspect the money was being laundered through the campaign

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