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The race for profits complicated racial identity in South Africa

Phakamisa Ndzamela by Phakamisa Ndzamela 22 October 202122 October 2021

There are Afrikaners with West African ancestry, blue-eyed amaMpondo, English amaZulu

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Impossible science: Zombie DNA and how you’re safer in a city

Sarah Wild by Sarah Wild 24 July 201324 July 2013

Whenever something goes wrong in my daily Johannesburg life, my mother — who I misguidedly call for words of comfort and solace — tells me that that’s what I get for “living in a place of wickedness”. (She harbours not-so-secret hopes of getting me to move to her bucolic paradise in deepest darkest Eastern Cape.) […]

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