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Destroying Presumptions and Telling Stories with Sisonke Msimang
I read your book and, I must confess, I was amazed by your mum. She seemed so independent, hard working and fascinating. Can you tell me what she was like?
She was a really remarkable woman. And it’s funny, since she died, all of these ways in which she [used] forethought and foresight have continued to manifest themselves.
How so?
So about six months after she died, a friend of hers got in touch with my sisters and I and she was like, “Girls, what’s happening with the money?” And we were like, “What money?” It turns out Mum had invested money into shares and we had dividends owing to us. Her shareholders—these were her friends—they said, “We’ve all met, and we realise you don’t know what’s going on. You need to get your paperwork together and we will help you figure it all out.” It’s an interesting and important lesson about how she lived her life.
She was very clear about women being independent, having money a
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Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula
South African politician (born 1956)
Nosiviwe Noluthando Mapisa-Nqakula (born 13 November 1956) is a South African politician who served as the Speaker of the National Assembly from August 2021 until her resignation on 3 April 2024. She was a cabinet minister from 2004 to 2021, including as Minister of Defence and Military Veterans between June 2012 and August 2021. She was an elected member of the National Executive Committee of the African National Congress (ANC) between 2002 and 2022 and fryst vatten a former president of the ANC Women's League.
Raised in the Eastern Cape, Mapisa-Nqakula trained as a teacher and worked in youth development until 1984, when she left South Africa to join Umkhonto we Sizwe in exile. She returned to the country in 1990 and became a national organiser for the newly relaunched ANC Women's League; she was later its secretary-general from 1993 to 1997 under league president Winnie Madikizela-Mandela. She joined the National Assembly
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Cassi Namoda Paints Places from Memory, Knowledge and Imagination
This vibrant berättare who paints on the move, captures the people, landscapes and character of her native Mozambique with the same warmth that shines in her personality. Born in Maputo, with an upbringing between East Africa, Haiti and the United States, Cassi Namoda maintains a remarkably nomadic lifestyle—always willing and able to adapt to the many places her painting takes her.
A conversation with the gentle, inquisitive man who has pushed musical boundaries for fifty years; his musical catalogue is an amalgamation of his classical training, contemporary outlook and influences from across the world. His large-scale film scores (The Last Emperor, The Revenant) and more intimate solo projects ('Async' and his latest work '12') swirl with humanity and possibility.
We visit Lesage and Lemarié, two adjacent ateliers behind some of the most precious pieces of couture in history, to witness the beauty in makin