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Humanity’s Origins Got Pushed a Million Years Back

by Sarah Rose Sharp August 29, 2022August 30, 2022

A new technique developed by scientists found that the earliest human fossils in South Africa are much older than we thought.

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Auction of Key to Nelson Mandela’s Prison Cell Stirs Controversy

by Cassie Packard January 4, 2022January 4, 2022

This month, Guernsey’s will hold an online auction of memorabilia related to South African president and anti-apartheid leader Nelson Mandela.

Posted inFilm

Good Madam Is a South African Horror Film Haunted by Whiteness

by Jourdain Searles October 12, 2021October 12, 2021

Jenna Cato Bass’s film is a reckoning both for her and all the clueless white children who never thought about the Black women who served them.

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The World’s Oldest Home Unearthed in South Africa

by Sarah Rose Sharp May 10, 2021May 10, 2021

The findings at Wonderwerk Cave are huge for paleoanthropology, which seeks to understand human evolution.

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Cape Town Fire Decimates Invaluable Archives of African History

by Hakim Bishara April 20, 2021April 20, 2021

The university’s African film collection, one of the largest in the world, has been lost to the fire.

Posted inArt

Embodying a Queer, Pan-Africanist Approach to Spirituality

Avatar photo by Alexandra M. Thomas October 29, 2020November 5, 2020

With Hybrid Spirit, Adejoke Tugbiyele proposes a visual language that explores the intimate connections between queerness, Indigenous African spirituality, and feminism.

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Queer Art Workers Reflect: Tšhegofatšo Mabaso Is Spending Pride Month “Deep in the Archive”

Avatar photo by Dessane Lopez Cassell June 17, 2020November 5, 2020

LGBTQ Pride month is now. Every day in June, we are celebrating the community by featuring one queer art worker and asking them to reflect on what this moment means to them.

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In South Africa, Activists Campaign to Remove Artwork by Convicted Murderer of a Sex Worker

Avatar photo by Kate Gill October 9, 2019

In a public gesture of solidarity, artist Candice Breitz asked that her video installation, on view in a separate exhibition at the same art center, be removed and replaced by a #SayHerName sign.

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The Understudied History of Enslaved Women in Colonial Cape Town

by Susan Silas August 29, 2019

At the Iziko Slave Lodge in Cape Town, an exhibition gives voice to a group of women whose lives were written out of history because they were considered too marginal to bother with.

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Figural Sculptures That Weave an Enigmatic Story of Disassociation and Isolation

Avatar photo by Melissa Stern June 17, 2019

Claudette Schreuders’s most recent show at Jack Shainman gallery, In the Bedroom is perhaps both her most revealing and most enigmatic body of work to date.

Lebohang Kganye, "Ka phisi yaka e pinky II" (2013), inkjet print on cotton rag paper, 42 x 42 cm (© Lebohang Kganye, courtesy Afronova Gallery)
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Photography’s Role in Shaping South Africa’s History and Contemporary Culture

Avatar photo by Benjamin Sutton April 18, 2018April 17, 2018

The head of Johannesburg’s Market Photo Workshop and an artist who studied there discuss the medium’s impact on how South Africans remember their pasts and picture their futures.

Still from Martha Rosler's South Africa: Crossing the River Without a Bridge (2016) (courtesy the artist and UnionDocs)
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A Screening of Martha Rosler’s Documentary on Housing Injustice in South Africa

Avatar photo by Benjamin Sutton March 21, 2017March 22, 2017

On March 23, UnionDocs is showing the latest version of a still-in-progress documentary Martha Rosler filmed in South Africa in 1990.

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