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Football’s Burden of History

Khaya Sibeko — Sun, 09 Jun 2013 12:45:06 +0000

As people we are products of histories that we have no hand in their creation and the kind that we actively participate in its making through our actions or lack of them. History in this instance is both a series of past events that aren’t necessarily notable and those are epoch-making. Whether conduct is ground [...]

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To Achebe, With Love

Khaya Sibeko — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 19:03:52 +0000

To Achebe, With Love Death is the ultimate right of passage for all living things. Its eventual occurrence is as guaranteed as the rising of the sun and the darkness that ensues when its sets. Whereas the act of dying is solely that of the victim, the usually excruciating implications of death are left to [...]

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The Indignity of Miseducation

Khaya Sibeko — Sun, 15 Jul 2012 07:47:49 +0000

By now it is a matter of history that a painting, The Spear, of Brett Murray’s exhibition “The Thieve II” got the nation talking; a newspaper almost boycotted; the painting itself defaced and also led to a march by the ‘revolutionary’ forces of the republic in defence of President Zuma’s dignity, by extension that of [...]

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