Speeches & Statements
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Gender DynamiX Speaks Out Against Xingwana's Bigotry
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Gender DynamiX is deeply concerned about the policing of bodies by the State. A very large part of our work is centred on examining the practices of the Department of Health (DoH) and the Department of Home Affairs (DHA) and their unethical activities towards Transgender people. We are now faced... |
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Africa South
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Thank you very much for inviting me to open the africa south exhibition. The art works on display give a lie to those who proclaim the dissolution of the creative spirit on this continent and I wish to begin by congratulating all the artists whose work is exhibited here and... |
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Statement on the Violence Against Foreign Nationals
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If art were to mirror our society right now, it would reflect the rainbow as a tattered farce, the African Renaissance as a bad stand-up comedy routine, the notion of ubuntu as a horror movie, and our much-admired constitution as a satire on what we have become. Given where we have... |
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ASAI enters a new phase
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From its modest inception as a website a little over two years ago, the Africa South Art Initiative (ASAI) has emerged as a bona-fide organisation with a mission to develop critical resources on art in Africa.
The ‘early’ ASAI was a private initiative. However, the project always contained a collaborative... |
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