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Zille responds to DA criticism, states colonialism isn’t all bad
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South Africans binged Netflix’s weirdest shows in 2017
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TWR Podcast: Apps to #DefeatDayZero, #MarkFishChallenge, Qualcomm fine, and more
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#MarkFishChallenge: South African Twitter’s latest meme
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Maze Runner: The Death Cure takes you on a zombified tour of Cape Town
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Fake news catches Helen Zille, Cyril Ramaphosa off guard
During the 2016 US presidential election, “fake news” was a hot topic. Articles about Hillary Clinton declaring Sharia law permeated the web, as did…
SA’s box office: it’s still a jungle out there
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Last week in trailers: The Handmaid’s Tale, Tomb Raider, Queer Eye, and more
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