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Lessons from Black Wednesday by Jerome Klaaste, 18 October 2019
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Oct 21, 2019

Lessons from Black Wednesday by Jerome Klaaste, 18 October 2019

All of this week, my mind kept racing back to a momentous event that took place on 19 October 1977. On that day, in one ...

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Kempton Park, town in Gauteng
Place
Oct 21, 2019

Kempton Park, town in Gauteng

Kempton Park is a large town situated on the East Rand of Gauteng. Home to numerous shopping malls, Emperor’s Palace wit...

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Biography
Oct 19, 2019

Sadecque Variava

Political activist, teacher, member of SASO, BPC, PET and AZAPO. Sadecque Variava is a Black Consciousness activist who ...

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St. Agnes Primary School, Woodstock
Place
Oct 18, 2019

St. Agnes Primary School, Woodstock

Catholic Primary School which helps underprivileged learners.

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Biography
Oct 16, 2019

Donald Thabela Madisha

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Oct 16, 2019

Lucas Tlhotlhomisang

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Oct 16, 2019

Clayton Sizwe Sithole

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Oct 16, 2019

Sithembele Zokwe

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Oct 16, 2019

Nobandla Bani

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Remembering the Blue Notes: South Africa’s first generation of free jazz by Gwen Ansell, 11 September 2017
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Oct 15, 2019

Remembering the Blue Notes: South Africa’s first generation of free jazz by Gwen Ansell, 11 September 2017

“We were all kind of rebels,” drummer Louis Tebogo Moholo-Moholo recalls, “so, like birds of a feather, [we] flocked tog...

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Biography
Oct 15, 2019

Ephraim Mthethwa

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What lost photos of Blue Notes say about South Africa’s jazz history by Lindelwa Dalamba , 14 October 2019
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Oct 15, 2019

What lost photos of Blue Notes say about South Africa’s jazz history by Lindelwa Dalamba , 14 October 2019

In 1964 a young South African student and photography enthusiast, Norman Owen-Smith, took his Leica camera along to a ja...

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Biography
Oct 15, 2019

Mxolisi Sipele

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Oudekraal Beach, Bakoven
Place
Oct 11, 2019

Oudekraal Beach, Bakoven

A Little Piece of Ocean Paradise. Oudekraal beach offers beautiful sea views and calm waters. Oudekraal Beach, part of t...

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Phiphidi Falls, Limpopo Province
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Oct 11, 2019

Phiphidi Falls, Limpopo Province

The vhaVenda clans of northern South Africa, in present-day Limpopo Province, are among the nation’s most traditional, h...

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