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William Kentridge Flute

The book, entitled William Kentridge Flute, will trace the process of Kentridge’s creation of The Magic Flute, his astounding collaborations that produced Black Box, and the host of other works that flowed out of preparations for these two important productions.

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Skill Set 1 – Graphic Design: A Primer in South African Graphic Design

Written by graphic designer Michael MacGarry, and featuring the work of leading design professionals, and targeted at designers, A Primer in South African Graphic Design features design fundamentals and principles; practical advice and guidance; designing for and within the local context; example of work by designers; Q & A with experienced local design professionals; and [...]

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William Kentridge – TRACE

WILLIAM KENTRIDGE : Trace : Prints from The Museum of Modern Art

This visually compelling publication highlights The Museum of Modern Art’s unparalleled collection of prints and books by William Kentridge – nearly fifty works spanning the past three decades. The book also features a succession of artistic interventions made by Kentridge especially for the occasion. [...]

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Thami Mnyele + Medu Art Ensemble Retrospective

The Johannesburg Art Gallery’s Retrospective on Thami Mnyele and the Medu Art Ensemble, which opened in 2008, was the culmination of years of work. It was not only a retrospective of a group that perished violently 23 years earlier, but the story of the artist and of cultural workers and Medu’s particular struggle from exile. [...]

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Hani: A Life Too Short

Chris Hani’s assassination in 1993 gave rise to one of South Africa’s great imponderables: if he had survived, what impact would he have had on politics and government in South Africa? More pointedly, could this charismatic leader have risen to become president of the country?
Hani was a hero of South Africa’s liberation, a communist party [...]

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Notes From Fractured Country

In this selection of columns, Jonny Steinberg walks through Pollsmoor Prison on the eve of the invasion of Iraq and believes he sees in the jail’s corridors why the US’s impending war in the Middle East will fail.He meets a poverty-stricken old man who spends most of his state pension maintaining a black Mercedes Benz, [...]

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The Democratic Moment: South Africa’s Prospects Under Jacob Zuma

Xolela Mangcu’s latest book takes the temperature of our democracy at this moment and provides an informed prognosis of our future. In particular he looks at the health of our institution  – such as political opposition, the court an the media – and the state f our enviroment , espcially  South Africa’s position in the [...]

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The Number: One Man’s Search For Identity In The Cape underworld and Prison Gangs

On 9 June 2003, a 43-year-old coloured man named Magadien Wentzel walked out of Pollsmoor Prison in Cape Town. Behind him lay a lifelong career in the 28s, South Africa’s oldest and most reviled prison gang, for decades rumoured to have specialised in rape and robbery. In front of him lay the prospect of a [...]

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Africa Lens: 20 Years of Getaway Photography

Over the past two decades Getway has excited the armchair traveller and inspired the adventurous to explore the continent. More than any other publication, it has captured the spirit of African travel, reaching millions of readers, The magazine has covered most of the greatAfrican subject: the Serengeti migration, Mali’s mud cities, the Namib’s many moods, [...]

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Rian Malan – Resident Alien

For Rian Malan the blessing of living in South Africa is that every day presents him with material whose richness beggars the imagination of those who live in saner places. ” Rian Mala could always see the story when others had long since lost the plt. Sometimes he went completely off his head as [...]

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