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Fig 3: Detail Still of Lilahloane by Imameleng Masitha. Courtesy o AVA Gallery Fig 4: Imameleng Masitha. Courtesy of artist
ART EXHIBITION

‘Lilahloane’: Death rites live beyond the grave

A new video installation by Imameleng Masitha at the AVA gallery digs into our rituals to mark mortality and the longing for home soil amid moving and migration

  • Voni Baloyi
5 min read
Safiri Salama, kiSwahili for “go in peace” or “travel well”, is a familiar farewell term used during East African funerals.
BEREAVED

Kenyan ‘end-of-life’ services tech startup is digitising mourning

From memorials to digital death notices, Safiri Salama is changing how we say goodbye, giving the funeral industry a tech upgrade

  • Seth Onyango
3 min read
The Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) on Thursday overturned a much-criticised high court ruling in the early days of South Africa’s Covid-19 lockdown that struck down most of the restrictions imposed by the state as unconstitutional. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)
BLACK LIVES MATTER

Lockdown level three brings waves of despair

Like all of us, Derek Davey is trying to put on a brave face as we live through a once-in-a-life-time disaster

  • Derek Davey
6 min read
(Illustration: Shubnum Khan)
AR AMMONS

You lose some, you love some

‘So even as the pain constricts our being, the world prises us open, forcing us to feel the sunshine that is other people’

  • Khadija Patel
5 min read