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A tale of two museums | by Andre Marais

A tale of two museums | by Andre Marais

Landlocked Timbuktu in Mali and coastal Cape Town are 6,000 kilometres apart from one another but they are both under threat: one museum by a religious fundamentalism, the other by economics. Both museums are preserving important historical and heritage sites. Both...

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All’s not over Dina Ezzat

Any hopes that presidential elections would lead to a political breakthrough are fast dwindling, writes Dina Ezzat On Tuesday evening, less than 48 hours before the announcement of the results of the second round of the presidential elections, ousted president Hosni...

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The spearing of Labour History

Many matters of national and regional importance have been neglected in the past two weeks, submerged beneath the fuss and furore caused by the charade surrounding the satirical Spear painting. Callers to radio shows noted that issues such as the shambles in education...

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The need to understand history

“History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived. But if faced with courage, need not be lived again.” So wrote the American author Maya Angelou. A fellow writer, James Baldwin also noted: “Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed...

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