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14 Dec 2021 5 minute read

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Mike Loewe reports from South Africa on the community fighting to stop Shell from exploration along its...

27 Jul 2021 4 minute read

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South Africa’s recent uprisings have revealed how much of a tinderbox the country is, argues Glen Retief....

22 Jun 2021 6 minute read

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Citizens’ groups are resisting gentrification, evictions and housing inequality in urban South Africa in a variety of...

1 Dec 2020 3 minute read

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Yewande Omotoso ponders how belonging to a city goes beyond the bald fact of living in it.

28 Oct 2020 3 minute read

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Green medicine: Yewande Omotoso’s apartment is slowly being taken over by plants, much to her delight.

26 Jul 2020 3 minute read

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Having travelled to the land of her birth as the coronavirus pandemic began to gather pace, Yewande Omotoso...

9 Jun 2020 3 minute read

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Yewande Omotoso’s namesake leads her down some unusual pathways.

16 Apr 2020 3 minute read

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Yewande Omotoso reflects on why no-nonsense Johannesburg is the place that suits her best.

13 Jan 2020 3 minute read

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Yewande Omotoso moves through the unknowable city, looking and listening.

29 May 2019 1 minute read

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This year, South Africa marks 25 years since its first democratic elections. Ilvy Njiokiktjien photographs the young South...

14 Oct 2018 5 minute read

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The powerful shackdweller’s social movement is mobilizing against assassinations in South Africa. Richard ...