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A member of SAPS shoots rubber bullets to disperse a crowd looting outside a warehouse storing alcohol in Durban on July 16, 2021, after protestors clashed with police following a week of unrest in South Africa.   (Photo by GUILLEM SARTORIO / AFP)

Visible and invisible violence in present day South Africa

The relations of social domination are reproduced in our habitual ways of talking

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We’ve GoT so many endings

More than a million fans have signed a petition to have the last season of Game of Thrones redone

(Reuters)

An evening routine unsullied

By the time Game of Thrones is scheduled to air on Showmax, I’m asleep. That’s just the way I roll and no amount of suspense is going to change it.

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Netflix has big appetite for growth

The entertainment giant is disrupting the industry but its rivals are not giving up without a fight

‘A lot of the rights afforded to women in the sixth century in the Islamic world were only afforded to women in the West in the 18th century. Twelve centuries later

Islam and the first feminists

Though laws might no longer be interpreted this way, women have always been powerful

A wound that has yet to heal: Haroon Gunn-Salie’s Senzenina is showing at a gallery in New York

An inconvenient review of An Inconvenient Sequel

"How poetic, how meta, how annoyingly terrific. As a young filmmaker myself, I may be having an existential crisis. Staving off the jealousy".

For universities, the logic of this governance can perhaps best be described as a form of neomedievalism

Something rank about ratings

The logic of governance at these institutions is that of neomedievalism in the war of excellence

Youths from the ruling Zanu-PF party hold portraits of President Robert Mugabe and his wife Grace during the “One Million Man March”

Editorial: DisGrace – and a diplomacy one too

Nothing in the incident and what followed leaves Zimbabwe’s first lady with any shine at all

Game of Thrones creators David Benioff and DB Weiss.

Creators behind ‘Game of Thrones’ stir race controversy with ‘Confederate’

What if the South had won the American Civil War?

King of the North Jon Snow.
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5 reasons why Game of Thrones satisfies our needs (apart from sex and violence)

The series meets deeper, more fundamental human needs than just a romp through bedrooms and battlefields

Cold comfort: Residents of Johannesburg’s northern suburbs are forming alliances to combat crime

Winter is here: ‘Game of Thrones’ begins season seven

Spoiler alert: This story contains minor details from Sunday’s season premiere of HBO’s ‘Game of Thrones’

Alice Bo Sheldon wrote her exotic novels under the name James Tiptree.

Close encounters with alien sex

Alien relations served writer Alice Bo Sheldon well as a metaphor for the gender obtuseness and sexual obsessions of dominant human males on Earth.

Eva Green as Vanessa Ives in “Penny Dreadful”

Television’s intrigues (nearly) rivalled local politics

Shaun de Waal looks at TV shows that had us hooked with cliffhangers and plot twists.

Fitz and Olivia’s affair in “The Fixer” has been about to happen for so long

Five worst TV moments of 2015

This year television gave us silly story ideas, cringeworthy narratives, damning decisions and rotten casting, writes Rebecca Davis.

Game of Thrones tourism hits the mark

Game of Thrones has put Northern Ireland on the map as fans flock to act out their medieval fantasies.

Game of ideological thrones

George RR Martin believes right-wing science ­fiction writers have wrecked the Hugo Awards.

Beyoncé took the number one spot on the top 10 most-mentioned entertainers on Facebook in the United States.

What people couldn’t stop talking about on Facebook this year

Among the global sizzlers are Beyoncé, whose sister smacked her hubby, Kim Kardashian for posing nude and Pharrell Williams’s ‘Happy’ hit.

Kit Harington plays Jon Snow in Game of Thrones.

Game of Thrones author gives fans the finger

Fans of George RR Martin’s books want to know if he’ll live long enough to give them an end to the series, a question he finds pretty offensive.

Game of Thrones puts Northern Ireland on the map

Game of Thrones is bringing an economic boost to Northern Ireland and has helped foster a film industry that is catching the eye of other productions.

Game of Thrones: Winter is here

With apologies to creator George RR Martin and anyone else to whom we couldn’t pay royalties, the M&G parodies Game of Thrones with SA politics.