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Reactionary Reviews | Death of Glitter | Botanik
by Claire Anderson
Long Street has a carnival air on Halloween: the breeze is warm and it seems everyone is out on the pavements, mostly dressed up.
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Dispatches From China | Food Cart
by Dean Read
This year I wanted to get PADI certified in Dahab, Egypt, cheapest of diving locales. And, inspired by the generous spirit of Italian fashion legend Brunello Cucinelli, open a plancha cart there...
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Reactionary Reviews | Darc, Tough Guy, Yndian Mynah & Moskitos | Bohemia
by Lloyd Martinez Newkirk
It’s like the fucking ’90s in here, you can smoke anywhere. In the bar, outside, and I fucking love it. Fuck you vapers...
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Reactionary Reviews | Fathers, Sons and Soft Vengeance | Baxter Theatre
by Claire Anderson
Graham Hopkins opens as Albie Sachs, dancing around the small stage, prancing merrily—but this is not to last.
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Reactionary Reviews | Newish Music Round-Up | 30 Oct 2026
This week’s round-up of newish releases from @WillLinleyy @southernwildsa @thisisjbs Niis, Thulubuke, and @SPOEK_MATHAMBO
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Hey @SPOEK_MATHAMBO why are you making so much music right now and do ya wanna do an interview about it?
Hasbara’ing the Spatial Divide
by Roger Young
The Reddit Guide to Cape Town’s Housing Crisis
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Peeps don’t even know they be hasbara’ing.
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Dispatches From China | Face the Police State
by Dean Read
I’ve had the bad luck (or good, being ‘in’ the arts) to have lived in two police states so far: Apartheid SA and CCP China.
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Reactionary Reviews | LIBRA SZN Secret Rave (or FUCK SANParks!)
Another Saturday. Sweltering fucking heat in Cape Town. Secret rave time. We jam, jam, jam until the first guys from SANParks rock up to shut the party down.
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A Bed Of Stones
Quartz Street is cut in half by Highpoint. A husk of an apartment building atop a husk of a shopping centre, with a supermarket that is incredibly easy to shoplift from -if, like me, you are white.
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Mike – Hillbrow 2007
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I Hardly Remember Their Names
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TW | SA
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Mike lived on the route from where I sold the stolen CDs, between there and the park where I got my smack.
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Reactionary Reviews | Newish Music Round-Up | 24 Oct 2026
This week’s round-up of newish releases from Darwin Rev, Fog, Coasters, Deeper Beats, and Tape Hiss & Sparkle.
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@SelvilleRecords
Tonight, Let’s Give A Fuck
Communities gather around those experiencing death or tragedy. It is a basic expression of our humanity.
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Reactionary Reviews | Fragments Of Sarah | @BaxterTheatre
I wonder how many audience members have made the same mistake as I did, assuming this was Ibuyambo Ensemble, not Orchestra. I’m glad of the happy accident
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Reactionary Reviews | Fragments Of Sarah | The Baxter
I wonder how many audience members have made the same mistake as I did, assuming this was Ibuyambo Ensemble, not Orchestra. I’m glad of the happy accident.
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Reactionary Reviews | @theBamBamBrown & Hayley Jade | The Imaginarium
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“Are we sure we’re going the right way?”
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Reactionary Reviews | Newish Music Round-Up | 20 October 2026
This week’s round-up of newish releases from @LangaMav @LindaSikhakhane Fontaines D.C., Warren Justin, Schwabie, and CVBA.
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The Addiction Of Stigma
I pass Matshikiza, squatting in an alley, beating like porridge the insides of a fan.
Complicity Part 6
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Reactionary Reviews | The Black Nails & The Unknown | Kaya
Beer in plastic cups galore, people spilling out onto the pavement. I love that grey area of drinking on the sidewalk.
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Reactionary Reviews | NANI? & 3OH5 | Surfa Rosa
I’ve only surfed Dunes twice – logistics and sharks deter me. It’s a heavy, peeling, right-hand slab of a wave by Noordhoek: here it’s a mean-looking mural inside Surfa Rosa.
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