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Outdoor art: Mankebe Seakgoe’s When the Sky Opened Up and Swallowed us Whole (2023), charcoal on canvas.
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Outside the white cube, art learns to breathe again

A group exhibition in North West challenged institutional norms, inviting artists and audiences to rethink experimentation, community and artistic freedom

Tensions escalated on Tuesday morning when the group refused to vacate the police station precinct, forcing police to use teargas and rubber bullets to disperse the crowd. (Screenshot)

Foreigners seek UN intervention after Durban police station standoff

About 200 foreigners who say they are fleeing attacks linked to anti-immigrant groups have called for United Nations intervention after spending two days outside Durban Central…

DA leader John Steenhuisen.

‘GNU responsible for country’s success’, MPs say in response to Ramaphosa’s Sona

Democratic Alliance leader John Steenhuisen said much of the progress made ‘bears the unmistakable imprint of the DA’s principled participation’ in the government of national unity

Minister of Sports, Arts and Culture Gayton McKenzie.

Gayton Mckenzie: Sports, Arts and Culture

SCORE: C- McKenzie entered his second year at the helm of the department with bold statements and ambitious rhetoric, but the follow‑through has been inconsistent and often…

Suspended Patriotic Alliance deputy president Kenny Kunene. (X)

Kunene has no links to Katiso ‘TK’ Molefe, report finds

The party is expected to redeploy him in the Johannesburg council and will demand he gets back his MMC for transport position

Suspended Patriotic Alliance deputy president Kenny Kunene. (X)

Decision for PA’s Kunene to be Joburg mayoral candidate taken before his suspension – party sources

Patriotic Alliance sources say that despite investigations into the deputy president’s links to murder suspect Katiso Molefe, they have confidence in him

Xenophobic South Africans base their beliefs on apartheid-like differences such as people from elsewhere on the continent have darker skins. Photo: Photo: Hanna Brunlof (file)

Xenophobia threatens black South Africans the most

South Africans are suffering from self-imposed apartheid-like systems and views – having to prove their rights by carrying IDs (similar to the dompas system) and being judged by…

(Graphic: John McCann)

Editorial: Distracted by politics of noise

The Gayton McKenzie saga over what he says are not racist tweets are noise pollution in lieu of stable governance

Sport, Arts and Culture Minister Gayton McKenzie. Photo: Delwyn Verasamy

Two days left for Gayton McKenzie to respond to K-word allegations

The Human Rights Commission has given the sport, arts and culture minister until 20 August to respond to old social media posts allegedly containing racial slurs

Suspended Patriotic Alliance deputy president Kenny Kunene. (X)

Kenny Kunene ordered to say sorry for calling Julius Malema a cockroach

The suspended Patriotic Alliance deputy president had previously vowed that the EFF leader would not get a cent from him and that he would not apologise

The PA is demanding that its newly appointed councillor, Liam Jacobs, take over the position of transport MMC in Johannesburg.(@LiamJacobsZA/X)

DA defector Liam Jacobs replaces Patriotic Alliance’s Kenny Kunene in Johannesburg council

Kunene, the PA’s deputy president, resigned as a councillor after links to murder suspect Katiso Molefe

President Cyril Ramaphosa. (Photo: by PresidencyZA)

Editorial: It’s time to be decisive, Mr President

Cyril Ramaphosa has dithered and delayed acting against ANC ministers implicated in wrongdoing

Sport, Arts and Culture Minister Gayton McKenzie. Photo: Delwyn Verasamy

Spinning out of control: McKenzie’s formula for disaster

SA’s sport minister is speeding towards Formula One glory — never mind the potholes, power grid or the fiscal cliff

Kelly Smith, mother of missing girl Joslin Smith, takes notes during the trial on Tuesday.

Kelly Smith threatened to stab her son in 2016, social worker tells court

Siliziwe Mbambo also said that according to the case file, the mother of Joshlin Smith threatened to assault her own grandmother

Minister of Sports, Arts and Culture Gayton McKenzie. (Photo by Oupa Bopape/Gallo Images via Getty Images)

Gayton McKenzie

SCORE: C+ It was a blessing for South Africans and foreign nationals when Gayton McKenzie was named minister of sports, arts and culture instead of home affairs. And it was…

Cartoon by Carlos.

Lines in the sand drawn and redrawn in the first five months of the GNU

Pre-existing policy tensions between the ANC and the Democratic Alliance have been the biggest stressors on Ramaphosa’s government

Removed: Tshwane mayor Cilliers Brink. (Deon Raath/Gallo Images)

Korner Talk | The Democratic Alliance’s brinkmanship

Unlike the ousted Tshwane mayor, the DA ditched former Joburg mayor Mpho Phalatse like Ultra Mel custard on a Skhothane teenager’s Carvela shoes

Chidimma Adetshina. (Official_misssa/Instagram)

The high cost of sacrificing nuance in a sea of misinformation

Recent events highlight how bigots cherry-pick information to suit their own purposes

(Graphic: John McCann)

Gayton must go if GNU is to be credible

The toxic xenophobic politics pushed by Gayton McKenzie and the Patriotic Alliance debases us all

The X-word gets trotted out like a beauty pageant contestant to dismiss legitimate border control issues. (Frederik Lerneryd)

Korner Talk: Of xenophobia and the RSA DNA

The X-word gets trotted out like a beauty pageant contestant to dismiss legitimate border control issues