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Opening eyes to Jozi’s inner city
Matthew Wilhelm-Solomon’s new book explores the abandoned buildings of Johannesburg and their inhabitants
Moving art makes city’s spine tingle
An innovative festival takes audiences through Jo’burg and brings fairy-tale fantasies to life.
Not everyone sees the light
The recent launch of expansion plans for the Maboneng precinct raises the question: Just who will be left out of the inner-city plan?
A history of violence and elusive hope
An analysis of a deadly mine conflict in 1994 offers clues to the origins of the Marikana tragedy.
Evicted Somali traders cry foul
Foreigners in Middelburg, Mpumalanga, allege that the local council is working hand in glove with local business people to shut down their shops.
The structure of terror
Suburbanites’ fears are defining the architecture of Johannesburg.
Fragments of unity on Africa Day
"Afrique, Afrique, Afrique!" cried Tumi Molekane of Tumi and the Volume, ending an electric hip-hop set at the Africa Day celebrations in Newtown.
Foreign traders are fair game
The Freedom Park housing settlement on the outskirts of Eldorado Park has become the centre of xenophobic mobilisation in Gauteng.
Minister of music mixing the sounds of the south
Gilberto Gil, one of Brazil’s best-known musicians, landed on South African tarmac last week.
Humanitarian crisis close to home
Migrants face a multitude of health issues in Jozi inner city.
A landscape of leftovers
Like weeds growing through cracks, Jo Ractliffe’s photos draw attention to Angolan war history
Swimming on the Square
After dusk on Saturday February 21, the FNB Dance Umbrella opens with Screen Factor 8. Directed and choreographed by Sue Pam-Grant, produced by Blue Moon and featuring the Moving…
Post-festival blues
As the National Arts Festival drew the curtains for 2004, Matthew Wilhelm-Solomon reflects on the cast of characters that filled the theatres and auditoriums, as well as the…
The intensity of approaching death
Reza de Wets’s imaginative landscape is instantly recognisable, writes Matthew Wilhelm-Solomon of the striking and lingering <i>Breathing In</i>.
Strong idea, laboured dynamics
Sophocles’s classic is rearticulated in a context of terrorism, Aids and globalisation in Antigone. John Kani stars. Matthew Wilhelm-Solomon reviews.