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His strong, coal-black hands crumpling and twisting his faded old hat, the thirty-year-old Adoons said in a quiet but firm voice to his employer, Mr. Waldman, the produce dealer,
“Baas, I’m finishing…
As a new arrival I wasn’t any good at shopkeeping, and not much of an expert with a horse and cart either. So I drifted round the streets, a sort of washout. I can never forget one day wandering about…
Harry was the only person who knew that he and his father had quarrelled shortly before the accident that ended the old man’s life took place; this was something that Harry was to keep secret for the…
Johannes pushed his cart laden with fruit and vegetables. He pushed with difficulty for his route lay uphill. Automobiles rushed past him, hooting insolently, demanding the road. Awkwardly he turned…
If we sang praises to the Lord
Every day with as much care
As He takes in giving us joy
And in showing His favor in every part of our lives,
Then our suffering would not be relentless
And no great…
Thenjiwe:What place is this?Zachariah:John Vorster Square!Thenjiwe:Aaaah!Susan:They told me that they were going to charge me. That meant a lot of things. That I would be sent to Diepkloof to await…
Though Lippy Lipshitz was best known as a sculptor, he produced a small body of paintings, including this watercolor. Its dark palette is similar to that of other pictures he made in the 1940s…
In this photograph, David Goldblatt captured a Black family newly arrived in Johannesburg, looking small and vulnerable as they pass the tall pole of a streetlamp, with massive buildings looming…
It did not take long to apprehend the assassin. A woman who had been passing heard the shots, saw a car skid away, took down the number and gave it to the police and, within hours, a man had been…
Kentridge’s signature practice is to draw an image in charcoal, photograph it, and then repeatedly erase, redraw, rephotograph it, and then animate it on film. Felix in Exile is the fifth film in…
