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Focus on African Home
African Home recycled tin can products A few blocks from the CCDI headquarters is African Home, a craft and design wholesaler on a busy street corner, manned by friendly and helpful staff. This one...
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World music on the eastern edge
Music aficionado Ma’or Harris settled in Cape Town ten years ago. Since then, he’s thrown some of the city’s most talked-about parties, coined the term Balkanology, and is busy planning a World Music...
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AZA 2012 master class: Masterminding change, reflecting memory
Urban agent Lindsay Bush reflects on a two-day design master class, during which The Fringe district was reimagined through the lens of 20+ designers and four different urban interventions. After the...
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Empowering Cape Town startups through collaboration
Serial entrepreneur Vuyisa Qabaka was born and bred in the Eastern Cape and moved here to study at UCT. Since then he’s incubated a number of successful business ventures and relocated his...
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A zine extravaganza tonight in The Fringe
Self-made publications are the stars this Friday night at Zine Market, a celebration of locally-made, self-published publications at The Book Lounge. Everything from comics, photobooks, essays to...
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Urban beekeeping: Pollinating urban change
What do the rooftops of London, Paris, New York and now Cape Town have in common? They are all home to hives of bees, thanks to the collective efforts of conscientious city dwellers. London has an...
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Can-do design solutions for social cohesion
Over the weekend of the 23-25 November, 36 design and social change enthusiasts gave up sleep (and a little bit of sanity) to participate in a 36-hour Design Can Do workshop to try and address social...
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Ons Plek: If walls could talk
A new two-storey mural by Faith47 on the exterior of Ons Plek in Albertus Street is part of a series of interventions by an interconnected web of volunteers who have helped transform this Central City...
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Building business to build a better future
One of the key challenges facing South Africa is job creation. Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) have a vital role to play in creating and supporting more jobs, so it is essential that...
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Fringe bids fond farewell to intern Annelieke Bezemer
Annelieke Bezemer, a visual art and design management student from Holland, recently completed a six-month internship in the Fringe. We interviewed her about the experience, and what it takes to be...
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