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Charl Blignaut

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Arts editor, journalist, pop culture tart. I like what I tweet.
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Cultural pioneer Maria McCloy was a model citizen who showed us Joburg can thrive

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By Charl Blignaut Verified
| Daily Maverick Verified
It’s unimaginable that Maria McCloy isn’t there any more. Maria was always there. Generously so. At birthdays, weddings, funerals, parties, launches, art openings, shows, in the restaurants and on the streets, collecting people and artefacts as she went. She generated a seemingly endless stream of posts about her finds and her joy at Joburg’s cultural vibrancy.
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Sibusile Xaba, the guitar genius

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By Charl Blignaut Verified
| Channel24 Verified
Johannesburg - As we talk over pots of Earl Grey tea, it occurs to me that Sibusile Xaba’s relationship with his guitar is like a Venda woodcarver’s relationship with wood. Admiring a particularly beautiful guardian sculpture at a chief’s house a few years ago, the carver told me not to look at the object as just decorative. Venda woodcarvings are living, useful objects, he said.
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The multibillion-rand wrath of the smiling Mandela

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By Charl Blignaut Verified
| City Press Verified
Did a government department really take a photo of former president Nelson Mandela, remove the name of the photographer and send it out to hundreds of government email addresses, telling them they could have free use of the photo to mark the great statesman’s death, resulting in at least 5.8 million unlawful reproductions as the image went viral on the internet?
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