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Kristen Harding

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Sep 29, 2026
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  1. Article · Sep 29, 2026 · Kristen Harding

    Why documentary filmmaker Andy Mundy-Castle turned his lens to SA’s protest legacy (opens the original)

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    Shoot the People examines global protest movements as a force for social change. By including two present-day South African protests, the documentary captures the country’s intergenerational spirit of activism. Daily Maverick spoke to director Andy Mundy-Castle about his experience documenting these social movements. “What is unique about South Africa more so than many other places around the world is we’ve seen what change looks like through protest,” says documentary filmmaker Andy Mun

  2. Article · Sep 24, 2026 · Kristen Harding

    We asked Trevor Noah what makes SA comedy special — here’s what he said (opens the original)

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    As captain of Bafunny Bafunny, Trevor Noah is championing local comedy at the first-of-its-kind Festival of Comedy. Daily Maverick caught up with the comedian for an exclusive interview about the festival and the cultural value of comedy. Bestselling author, award show host, media producer, world-touring comedian. These are just a few of the hats Trevor Noah wears in his career. Now, back on home soil, Noah has stepped into the role of lead curator for the South African Festival of Comedy. The f

  3. Article · Sep 15, 2026 · Kristen Harding

    Fractured nation, fractured family: The politics and precarity of fatherhood in turbulent times (opens the original)

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    At the European Film Festival South Africa, three films trace how fatherhood bends under social and political collapse, exploring absent fathers, surrogate kinship and fragile belonging across nations. In 2023, a reported 35.6% of South African children lived with their biological fathers in the same household. A total of 40.3% lived with men who were not their biological fathers. These figures were published in the third and latest State of South Africa’s Fathers report in 2024. But fathers,

  4. Article · Sep 9, 2026 · Kristen Harding

    Nguni history is more than just ethnography – a curator of African art explains (opens the original)

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    At Yale University Art Gallery, Johannesburg-born curator James Green frames Nguni art as living history by bringing together 150 works, contemporary photography and a rebuilt isibaya into a first-of-its-kind exhibition. From around the year 1000 CE, waves of movement led by Mnguni, the Nguni’s founding ancestor, carried communities southward from enhla nezwe (“the land of the north”) to eventually settle east of the Drakensberg escarpment – now KwaZulu-Natal. Since then Nguni communitie

  5. Article · Jul 31, 2026 · Kristen Harding

    Black Burns Fast: The local film reimagining the representation of queer, black girlhood (opens the original)

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    With its charming portrayal of a queer love story, the debut feature from South African filmmaker Sandulela Asanda is redefining queer representation by celebrating the playfulness of adolescence. It takes a special kind of creative voice to situate a film so resolutely within the tropes of a particular genre without losing itself to Hollywood formulas. With her debut feature film, Black Burn Fast, Sandulela Asanda infuses South African humour, politics and sensibilities into the conventions of

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