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...In a bid to break through the post-apartheid inequality that plagues access to art in the country, Zeitz Mocaa has piloted a “mobile museum” that will tour marginalised townships in Cape Town and further...
...As the concert progresses, a short dialogue of scampers and scuttles is followed by body-swaying township lilt and lullaby melodies by rolling country soul....
...Its champions say it will be a “happy city” made up of 27 self-sufficient townships, each with its own places of work, religious sites, shopping areas and schools....
...The township-jazz soundtrack to his multi-screen puppet danse macabre “More Sweetly Plays the Dance” sounds discordantly through the galleries....
...Visits to galleries, artists and township studios are, especially given the hotel’s art connection, an obvious option....
...On the one hand, the tradition of European landscape painting that he had been schooled in, with its lushness, its incised V-shapes and receding planes....
...African Art, as well as hosting museum and gallery evenings throughout the city and township art tours during the day....
...“Our objects have been curated over eight months of visiting townships....
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...The Lethabong Tavern in Alexandra, one of South Africa’s poorest townships, is a humble affair: corrugated metal roof, plastic chairs, basic pool table....
...The tours aren’t intended as slum voyeurism, as can now be found in the favelas of Rio and the townships of Cape Town....
...In addition, the V-shaped industrial recovery has ensured that the labour market is tight again....
...The company’s Luyanda Mpahlwa and Mphethi Morojele presented designs for low-income housing in Cape Town townships that feature energy efficient timber and sandbag frames and cost only R50,000 (£3,400) each...
...Mike Abrahams, a gang member-turned-intellectual, grew up in a poor township outside Cape Town, sitting in the library reading British boys’ magazines such as Shoot and Tiger....
...The graphic novelist Alan Moore took his name off V for Vendetta, and who can blame him?...
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