Rare South African photo-stories digitised – Gadget Sabinet has made more than 20,000 pages of the photo magazines available for global research access.

More than 20,000 pages digitised of “True Africa and She, two popular publications during the apartheid era.
She magazine featured a female superhero protagonist, a striking departure from the male action heroes that dominated popular media of the period.”
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The man they called Fink — a life devoted to justice Famed for his role in South Africa’s constitutional design, Nicholas ‘Fink’ Haysom dedicated his life to justice and diplomacy across the globe.

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Memory is not to be trusted: a South African memoir traces the search for a family secret A beautifully written book that shows why nostalgia is not to be trusted.

Memory is not to be trusted: a South African memoir traces the search for a family secret
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Paul Klee ~ Forest Construction (1919)
#PaulKlee #Expressionism #ModernArt

Face to Face With History’s Most Dangerous Painter Jacques-Louis David, artist and politician of the French Revolution, has beguiled our critic Jason Farago for years — and scared him, too. Let him show you why.

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Facing the truth about apartheid | The Observer Jillian Edelstein’s portraits from South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission ask a timely question: can we ever combine justice with forgiveness?

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AMABHUNGANE: South Africa’s bad bet: How online gambling is a major source of extraction from the economy

Rocketing online gambling has become a major source of extraction from the South African economy, riding on regulatory failure, some cynical business practices and wall-to-wall self-promotion to profit off a mammoth new social ill.

South African playwright and theatre legend Athol Fugard dies at 92 Athol Fugard died in Stellenbosch on Sunday. He was 92 years old. Fugard was internationally recognised as one of the icons of English theatre in South Africa.

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“Are We Lost?” How Ancient Cultures Across the Globe Found Their Way Around Humans do not have an innate neurological toolbox like animals, but they do possess language. The configuration and language of the four directions is common to many—though not all—cultures. They p…

“The words and connotations of cardinal directions that are spoken give shape and order to societies.” Jerry Brotton on how ancient cultures conceptualized the cardinal directions.

Breyten Breytenbach: a masterful poet, jailed for his politics, who reimagined South Africa The celebrated South African writer and poet Breyten Breytenbach has died at 85. He used his art to fight for justice for marginalised people throughout his life.

‘om te onthou, is te verbeel … ek ontbeel jou. (To remember, is to imagine … I remagine you).
RIP Breyten Breytenbach (1939-2024).

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Museums are houses of things.

But each object contains the memories and lifetimes of the people who made, used and cared for them—sometimes over generations—and there are moments when we see them resurface in ways we could never anticipate.

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'Portuguese modernist Fernando Pessoa channeled a grand, glorious chorus of writers'
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‘The Iliad may be ancient – but it’s not far away’: Emily Wilson on Homer’s blood-soaked e... Following her acclaimed translation of the Odyssey, Wilson has turned to Homer’s other, darker poem. She explains how she got stuck for six months – and why it speaks to today’s era of conflict

‘armies are like floods or wildfires or flies swarming round a milk pail; gods fly with the speed of imagination or of hawks; humans are as short-lived as leaves.’

Charlotte Higgins interviews Emily Wilson.

An intriguing novel take on One Thousand and One Nights: Every Rising Sun by Jamila Ahmed places Shaherazade in the centre.
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17th century Russian Ice Slide, public domain.

By Trifonneke - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=82531287

Montagne Russe
The origins of the Tonerre de Zeus a wooden roller coaster in Parc Asterix can be traced back to the 'ice slides' of 17th c. Russia.1815 Paris was swarming with bored Russian soldiers so a wooden 'ice slide' was built and proved to be popular ergo Montagne Russe entered the vocabulary