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The Portfolio: Tshepiso Mazibuko

Mail Guardian South Africa 22 Jan 2021
It is the spring of a new South African administration, October 1999; people gather on Thokoza’s Khumalo Road in the southeast of Gauteng, to commemorate the death of the 688 people during the early 1990s, which saw conflict between the Inkatha Freedom Party and the ANC.
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The Portfolio: Nocebo Bucibo

Mail Guardian South Africa 16 Jan 2021
It’s the early 1990s, before the 1994 elections, and 688 trees have fallen in the hostels of Thokoza, the first township to spring in the south of Gauteng ... the falling trees of Thokoza ... I lived close to the hostels in Thokoza during the violent conflict between the IFP and the ANC.
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Mail Guardian South Africa 20 Nov 2020
Cassi Namoda. To Live Long is to See Much. To Live Long is to See Much, Cassi Namoda’s new collection of work, offers prescient reflection on life experience, thresholds, and the passage of time. The exhibition presents a series of tableaus and various forms that weave narratives of magic realism into the verdant Mozambican landscape. Details ... Details.
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Working alone, together: presenting the Wits Young Artist Award 2020 winners

Mail Guardian South Africa 02 Oct 2020
In Mokoena’s winning submission, Kea hoNkgono leNtatemoholo (I’m Taking a Walk to the Grandparents), 2020, the artist returns to what he has termed, the “height of ethno-tribal, sociopolitical and geo-transportational violence in Thokoza 1993”, which took place when Mokoena was only a few months old.
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20 arrested following protests in Thokoza and surrounding areas

News24 30 Jul 2020
What started as sporadic service delivery protests in four Johannesburg areas, ended in violence and the torching of buildings ... .
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Thokoza, gogo: Sanusi Credo Mutwa's death mourned

Eye Witness News 25 Mar 2020
Known for his predictions of the Soweto Uprising, his invaluable contribution to preserving African knowledge and healing, Mutwa waited years for a decent house from government ... .
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Three men arrested in Thokoza for shooting at crowd

News24 04 Sep 2019
Gauteng police have arrested three men after they allegedly opened fire on a large crowd of demonstrators in Thokoza, as the township is gripped by a wave of xenophobic violence ... .
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