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Analysing the misrepresentation of the South African Coloured community by Gayton McKenzie
The portrayal of South Africa's coloured community by President of the Patriotic Alliance and Minister of Sport, Arts, and Culture, Gayton McKenzie, is both a misrepresentation and a humiliation.
South African retrospective exhibition honors the colorful work of artist Esther Mahlangu
A retrospective exhibition in South Africa is honoring Esther Mahlangu, a local artist from a rural background who has become ...
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Glen Snyman: South African accused of fraud for saying he's 'African'
A South African teacher has been summoned to a disciplinary hearing, accused of fraud, for identifying as "African" in a job application. Glen Snyman is "coloured" - as people of mixed race have ...
Illegal trade booms in South Africa's 'super-strange looking' plants
A biodiversity hotspot in a remote part of South Africa has become the hub of an illegal trade in protected plant species, ...
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Language in South Africa
Coloured identity is regarded as intermediate, paradoxical, anomalous, deracinated and liminal in South African society (Turner 1969). This opens it to ambivalence: one the one hand, to sacralisation ...