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Posted inEquality, General

Times are changing…

Lwandile Fikeni by Lwandile Fikeni 21 August 201428 August 2014

It was at a girl’s varsity residence room the morning after we had sex that I read, for the first time, Steve Biko’s I write what I like. I was lying next to her, naked, and she had a handful of books on a bedside table. I read the first few essays, which left me […]

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A lay-by on shop U22, Sandton City / the outer fringe

Lesley Perkes by Lesley Perkes 24 October 201324 October 2013

The truth is, although I noticed Amos Letsoalo’s beautiful charcoal drawing of an anteater, I could hardly look at the art shown on the Joburg Fringe this year. Having visited it first, unfortunately just after it closed on the opening night, I was so taken with the fact of it, featured as it was in […]

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