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Loving memory: Maria McCloy was someone who made Johannesburg feel possible. Someone who gathered people across class, art, music, fashion and politics and convinced them that beauty, style and radical care belonged together.
ABBEY LINCOLN

Maria McCloy made Johannesburg feel possible

Friends, creatives and a city in mourning gathered to celebrate the woman who helped shape how Johannesburg saw itself after 1994.

  • Lesego Chepape
7 min read
Safiri Salama, kiSwahili for “go in peace” or “travel well”, is a familiar farewell term used during East African funerals.
BEREAVED

Kenyan ‘end-of-life’ services tech startup is digitising mourning

From memorials to digital death notices, Safiri Salama is changing how we say goodbye, giving the funeral industry a tech upgrade

  • Seth Onyango
3 min read
34 MINE WORKERS

Ten years later, still no memorial park at site of Marikana massacre

Sibanye-Stillwater, which inherited the project after purchasing Lonmin, now looks to finish the project by next year.

  • Anathi Madubela
5 min read