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Mike van Graan

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Whiteness is thicker than blood

Sandile Memela by Sandile Memela 8 November 20138 November 2013

Mike van Graan’s Rainbow Scars describes the fortunes and destinies of blacks who are raised by whites and those condemned to live in the townships. Much as the play explores relations between a white mother and an adopted black daughter, the most interesting undercurrent is the theme of black identity and whether skin colour is […]

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They say government-sponsored artists are traitors

Sandile Memela by Sandile Memela 1 February 20138 February 2013

I believe celebrated struggle poet and ANC veteran Mongane Wally Serote will be in a lot of trouble for saying “the white Western voice dominates discourse in this country while the African voice is muted”. He was a panellist on a Big Debate discussion about artists and whether they have sold out or have we […]

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