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Henrik Ibsen’s original A Doll’s House shocked 19th-century audiences when Nora walked out on her husband and children to escape the suffocating role of Torvald’s wife. In doing so, Ibsen…

HIGHLY RECOMMENDED Mike van Graan’s The Good White doesn’t shout. It doesn’t need to. It’s a quiet, unnervingly sharp scalpel slicing through the tender tissue of privilege, protest, and post-apartheid…

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In Joburg, we have numerous reasons to feel depressed. The government is dysfunctional. Unexplained gas explosions destroy the last vestiges of an already crumbling infrastructure, and fires kill people in…

Am I the only one to see a disturbing continuity? The BRICS group invited six new members to join the party - apparently to counter current US dominance - but…

Living in Johannesburg is like riding a big dipper. Sometimes there are only dips and more dips – electricity out, taps dry, and sewage the only running rivers - but…

Visiting a Vulture Restaurant to watch vultures devour pigs unfortunate enough to have died of ‘natural causes’ wasn’t an item on my bucket list, but good friends invited me, and…

Standard Bank AGM 12 June 2023 Activists Kumi Naidoo (left) and Malik Dasoo are carried out of the Standard Bank’s Rosebank, Johannesburg headquarters by security on 12 June 2023 after…

A story about waste and what WE have to do about it. Yesterday evening I was watching/listening to the Johannesburg Philharmonic Orchestra, and, as always, I felt privileged and massively…

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