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Hazel Friedman

Hazel Friedman is an investigative journalist and producer with Special Assignment, author, art critic and art history lecturer.

Fierce: Allison Janney as plays the title role and Jurnee Smollett her tenant Hannah in an
unlikely pairing as they set out to find Hannah’s daughter. Photo: Liane Hentscher/Netflix

One Film, Two Takes: LOU

Netflix tale of ageing recluse with violent side will either leave you entertained or vaguely disappointed

Slaying dragons: In search of self

‘Bamboozled’ shows with hallucinogenic clarity that life doesn’t have to stop being hard in order to find happiness, healing and love

Book explores gender-based violence and healing after the hurt

‘A Letter To My Perpetrator’ is more than a testimonial by survivors of GBV. It asks questions about healing through forgiveness of the perpetrator and oneself

Shattered beauty: The exhibition, disquieting domesticities, vestiges of violence, is unnerving but does not descend into trauma porn. (Photos: Michael Hall)

Leora Farber: Up close and uncomfortably personal

Leora Farber’s current installation at Iziko South African National Gallery unleashes a plethora of associations and emotions

Photographer Jurgen Schadeberg, 2016  (Alberto Domingo)

Obituary: The pointillist detail and zen brush strokes of Jürgen Schadeberg

‘Drum’ photographer Jürgen Schadenberg, who died on Sunday, displayed a profound humanism, writes his friend and sometime collaborator Hazel Friedman

Tracy Morrison fooled the mink-and-manure set with her phoney American accent and claims of links to Hollywood, but her alleged scams wounded many people

Caught at last, a brazen Jo’burg con artist must face the music

For years it seemed to all those people caught in Tracy Morrison’s intricate webs of deceit that she would never be called to account

Hope dwindles for women imprisoned in Thailand for drug trafficking

Govt seems reluctant to agree to allow South Africans sentenced abroad to serve part of their sentences at home. Hazel Friedman reports on two cases.

In recent years, the Nakba has become popularised for filmmakers worldwide and a source of furious contention both within the Jewish state and beyond. (Supplied)
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No shortcut through the graveyard forest

A striking new documentary delves into the lives of Israelis and Palestinians living together but apart.

Voices from the land

Poverty presents several faces. There is the face puckered by financial hardship — contorted and reconfigured, life’s stress-fractures — and the face reflecting not so much…

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Suzan Chala reviews IN Joy and Peace (St Theresa’s Convent, R50) In Joy and Peace is one CD you should consider adding to your collection, not only because the vocalists are…

New evidence in Hani death plot

Hani assassination: Documents given to the Mail & Guardian point to a conspiracy beyond the right wing.