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Ryan Enslin

Reporter · ZA

Indexed articles, last 90 days
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Sep 23, 2026
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Aug 11, 2026

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  1. Article · Sep 23, 2026 · Ryan Enslin

    AI and the future of creativity — can artists’ histories travel with their work? (opens the original)

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    During a Creative Cnergy panel on AI, one core question emerged: as AI makes content creation seamless, will the human stories and history behind the art get erased? “The microwave did not kill cooking,” digital director at Universal Music Group Nic Burger said, and the room laughed. Burger offered an apt analogy: microwaves didn’t make pots and pans obsolete, they simply lowered the threshold for cooking, a distinction whose appeal was immediately clear to me. I can’t cook, yet the two

  2. Article · Aug 28, 2026 · Ryan Enslin

    How documents, race and perceived value shape who is labelled a foreigner in SA (opens the original)

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    We love to celebrate cultural difference, until we start ranking it. Through the lens of Contra.Joburg’s Different Is Good festival theme, South Africa’s rising xenophobia is confronted, unpacking why some forms of foreignness are embraced, while others are forced to justify their existence. From Bekezela Nkomo Mabena’s rooftop art studio at August House, Johannesburg feels unusually close. I sense the city pressing against the edge of the building. He tells me what happened here on 30 Jun

  3. Article · Aug 11, 2026 · Ryan Enslin

    Street art can’t transform Joburg’s inner city, but it’s a start (opens the original)

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    On Johannesburg’s bridges and gateways, street art is shifting how the inner city is seen, crossed and slowly reclaimed by those moving through it daily. On Johannesburg’s Nelson Mandela Bridge, the change began before anyone could call it renewal. A cleaning crew had passed through. Still, for many pedestrians, the bridge remained something to cross quickly, handbag held close, phone out of sight, eyes fixed on the other side. Shweshwe patterns began taking shape on the pillars and the brid

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