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Both Wylie and Snowden realised that what they were doing was profoundly wrong

Steal my data, feed me lies

Snowdon’s book tells the world about his work for the US government, and how he grew disaffected with what they were up to

(Oleksandr Rupeta/ NurPhoto)

‘Skin Deep’ peels race science

This book is an important fightback against the re-emergence of racist genetic determinism

(Reuters)

Doors, chairs and what lies between

One might say that all the doors we pass through in our lives are ours. They belong to us, just because we passed through them, or we belong to them

Stimela: Gold miners, circa 1910. Many of them were, for years, recruited in Mozambique and made the trip to South Africa by train. (FPG/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Moz miners’ misery unveiled

Migrant workers faced many depredations on their railway trips to and from Mozambique

(Reuters)

I want to pay but Jo’burg won’t let me

My fresh billing crisis goes back nearly two years now

Double agent: Olivia Forsyth, who spied on fellow students, fled to the British embassy in Luanda after the ANC had detained her in 1986 after she offered to spy for them. (Sunday Times)

SA’s dirty, dangerous habit

Two books, one political and the other about trade, brings home that we’re a country of spooks

(Reuters)

In God’s name you are now an ATM

The prayers of the ATM, which is a different kind of ATM to the one Shepherd Bushiri would like to make of me, are more apparent

(Reuters)

Quilled or typed, it’s writ

If we are not thinking of a quill, when we say someone has “penned” a book, are we thinking of a standard ballpoint pen?

Costa Carastavrakis named his book after himself because he ‘no longer needs a place to hide’

Healing from shame is a marathon task

Carastavrakis wants to help others and give them the benefit of his experience

(Reuters)

On politics and divine instruction

When someone with such a magnificent name, and holding such an impressive position, tells you something, you have to believe her

Hlaudi’s congregants: Defenders of Hlaudi Motsoeneng (some ANC members and others belonging to the Ses’Khona People’s Rights Movement) protesting in support of the SABC executive. (David Harrison)

The biggest mess ever broadcast

The fight for press freedom and against Hlaudi’s antics is documented by one of the SABC8

When bouncers shoot bouncers (Photo Archive)

When bouncers shoot bouncers

Author probes battles of security and gangsters

(Reuters)

Trump pays in messiah money

The Trump coin, at least, echoes another element of the BIN story about the Pilgrim’s Road. It mentions some coins found during the excavations

(Reuters)
Video

Dylan pulls off another put-on

As Picasso said, though he may have had TS Eliot’s words put in his mouth: “Good artists copy; great artists steal.”​

ANC members can’t vote with their conscience in motion of no confidence – Magashule

Full account of Free State skullduggery

The distance between the ANC general secretary’s looting and ‘fake news’ is seemingly a straight line

At work: Conrad Botes uses photographs of Marikana as a backdrop to his paintings. Photo: Jan Verboom

Botes takes on a giant subject

The artist uses his trademark comic-book style and a touch of Goya to address Marikana

(Reuters)

Tyresome lower-case tornado

Tony Yengeni’s tweet implied Mashaba should be necklaced. He has been widely criticised for this, and the DA has laid a charge.

Drumming up support: Carsten Rasch with reggae outfit National Wake. (Supplied)

Picaresque of 70s hippie punk

Hitting the right notes, a memoir of white kids’ musical rebellion tells of a youth well misspent

Philosophy of dignity: Zakes Mda draws on Mandingo religion. (Joanne Oliver)

History plus myth means dignity

Mda’s latest novel paints a picture of how the West, then and now, refashions the other to validate its own preconceptions

(Reuters)

Bright lights, dark mutterings

Are we so in thrall to images of wealth that we would just stand there, agog at the spectacle, and not wonder about all this wasted electricity?