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Rebuild: South African photographer David Goldblatt’s exhibition Fragments of Fietas on at the Goodman
Gallery in Johannesburg honours the resilience of a community fractured and displaced by apartheid.

Fietas and the enduring question of home

David Goldblatt’s Fragments of Fietas captures more than loss — it reveals how memory, belonging, and faith survive even after home is erased

Mxolisi Sibam

Apartheid’s double-edged sword: The story of Mxolisi Sibam

His fair skin did not bring him any benefits during apartheid. He was regarded as too white by black people and too black by white people

(Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

Local political capture impedes SA’s post-1994 planning and development

Political interference, weak capacity and patronage hinder South Africa’s post-apartheid planning, leading to dysfunctional local government

For Elon Musk, to call broad-based black economic empowerment ‘racist’ is to eat at the table apartheid set for you and complain when someone else is finally offered a chair.

Elon Musk and the irony of calling black economic empowerment racist

Beneficiaries crying oppression are eating at the table apartheid set for them — and complaining when someone else is finally offered a chair

Orania in the Northern Cape markets itself as a cultural haven.

Apart from us: The living skeletons of apartheid in Orania and Kleinfontein

These towns are not anomalies, they are barometers of how far South Africa still needs to go in confronting the unfinished business of its past.

Omar Badsha And Dumile Feni At The Durban Art Gallery

Apartheid’s shadow, an artist’s light: Omar Badsha’s story

Omar Badsha’s journey from quiet observer to defiant artist in apartheid South Africa

For the record: Conceptual artist Dada Khanyisa rebuilt a record player for the installation Summer Flowers by Cape Town architect and artist Ilze Wolff, which is on at the 15th Dakar Biennale in Senegal. (Supplied)

Flowers, music, books and how to be an architect in a horrible world

Summer Flowers, representing South Africa at the 15th Dakar Biennale, is an homage to author Bessie Head

Grounded: Among the issues explored by Lebogang Seale in his book One Hundred Years of Dispossession is the failure of the government to equitably redistribute and restore land.

Lebogang Seale’s book tracks a century of injustice in his family’s quest for land

One Hundred Years of Dispossession: My Family’s Quest to Reclaim Our Land traces his family’s ongoing struggle to strengthen their restitution case