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Looking to the future: Nkosinathi Biko (left) heads the committee that will steer the National Dialogue. He and Samora Biko (right) are the sons of Steve Biko. Photo: GCIS

CITIZEN PARTICIPATION

‘National Dialogue is no talk shop,’ organisers say

But the Democratic Alliance has said it will boycott the dialogue that will take place over nine months, calling it a waste of time and money

Nkateko Joseph Mabasa

Monkeying around: Andrew Buckland performs in Simon’s Town during the June tour of Unruly, a production aimed at helping to understand a divisive human-versus-animal battle on the Cape Peninsula. Photos: Odendaal Esterhuyse

A new species of performance for unruly play about Cape’s human-baboon conflict

Theatre offers an unlikely space for Cape Peninsula communities to connect and deal with the problem of living with baboons

Isabel Olson