From the last words of a freedom fighter before he was hanged by the apartheid government to present-day concerns about the tendency in the ruling party to use positions to accumulate wealth, Brett Murray's exhibition is chilling.
It is not so much what we say about the dead, but what happens after they die that reveals the true character of a man.
Oh my, how the world turns. One day you are the cock of the walk, the next a feather duster. But this is not the 1985 Australian post-apocalyptic film Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome; this is South Africa post-2008. So it is more accurate to say: One day you are accused of fraud, corruption and rape, the next you are the leader of the biggest political party in the land.
Men get into a lot of trouble for using words such as "b***h" and "s**t", but these words are used comfortably by women to refer to other women.
What do you want to do before you die?
BHU. what? The first time I heard of Bhutan, I was flipping through a rather oddly titled book at one of my favourite breakfast spots.
When does a black family grieve for a loved one? On the day of the funeral? After the funeral? Or when all the relatives and friends have gone home?
It is a business that requires no start-up capital. It requires no formal training. It is a mobile business with no overheads. The shade is the shelter, the sun the light and fair weather is very good for business.
Where do I begin? Do I start with the Nobel peace prize winners? Perhaps it's best to open with the dearly departed. Or maybe just get the gold digger out of the way. Allow me to just go through the list in alphabetical order.
The next instalment of the JZ cabinet show, Pimp My Ride, aptly titled Keeping Up With the Reshuffle, is now on. And it is the usual suspects - rival luxury German car manufacturers - who feature prominently in this edition of the show, as they did in the 2009 extended feature.
Melancholy is very choosy. Mostly, it prefers great company. It loves the exceptionally talented. It thrives in the artistically endowed. It torments the gifted. It haunts genius.
Does celebrity involvement in campaigns raise awareness or distort the message - or, worse still compromise the cause? Whether the campaign is about HIV/Aids awareness, teenage pregnancies, drug abuse or domestic violence, do celebrities add value?
The Avtomat Kalashnikova model of 1947, the AK-47, Kalashnikov, Kalash, Mshini Wam'sends chills down our spines.
Adolf Hitler. Caesarina Kona Makhoere. Gregory David Roberts. Daniel Defoe. ee cummings. Ezra Pound. Martin Luther. Miguel de Cervantes. Ngugi wa Thiong'o. Oscar Wilde.
Ever the man of letters, Thabo Mbeki did not disappoint last week when he asked us to ponder the meaning of knowledge and its role in building a better society.
Oh, Barack! Whether he's murmuring juicy White House titbits or whispering sweet somethings into his wife's ear, Barack Obama does it with such adoration. Even when he's waving to citizens, the hand that holds his love's never wavers.
Stop doing stupid things like fighting and give people what you promised.
Sick as what I'm about to say might sound, desperate times call for desperate measures. Whether it is fact or fiction, reality or myth, slave masters had a good thing going.
Some things go well together, like blue jeans and a white tee, S-curl and cut, and candlelight and a romantic dinner, SABC1 and '90s movies.
It's known as the death stretch; about half a kilometre of tar on which many have lost their lives - and many more have almost met their maker.
Why does South Africa have the largest HIV-positive population in the world?
For the Average Jabulani who has just started working it would suffice to replace the chain-link fence around his parents' three- or four-roomed house with a brick wall.
Germans love their cars, wrote Stefan Zeidenitz and Ben Barkow in their delightful little book, Xenophobe's Guide to the Germans.
WHEN Philemon said to his wife, Matilda, "Ha, I see we have a visitor" we knew Matilda had made her bed - and she would have to lie in it. Philemon was referring to the blue suit in their bedroom.
The story went something like this, an aid worker narrated: They went to a country with the best of intentions, as international aid organisations do. They wanted to help communities most affected by the worst drought in two decades.
WE HAVE Women's Day; what more do women in South Africa want, right?
With its young and able scattered all over South Africa, the UK and other parts of the world, any hope of an uprising in Zimbabwe, similar to those in Arab countries recently, is a pipe dream - very much like Muammar Gaddafi's long-held wish for a "United States of Africa".
Diepsloot and Dainfern, Alexandra and Sandton, Silver Lakes and Mshenguville, and Thatchfield and Olievenhoutbosch - these are the dichotomies of our country.
PEACHES, pomegranates, apricots, figs, mulberries, grapes - these were the fruits of my childhood.
TO SCAN or not to scan? That is the question.
Oh, the challenges of migrant labour. Oh, the protocol to be observed by a man on his return to his rural home after months, sometimes years, of hard work in the cities - or in another country.
It was not such a bad week for the youth of South Africa, I concluded, while folding some of the Sunday papers I had sprawled on my dining table.
WHERE is Muammar Gaddafi at this moment?
They are a gauge of the township's varied socio-economic conditions. These dirty children - who run after and wave at visitors driving fancy cars, at celebrities, journalists, politicians, visiting foreign dignitaries, ambulances or police cars patrolling their area - are a township curiosity.
WITH a high male-to-female ratio, a decline in population growth, a rise in the average age of the workforce and the elderly forming a large proportion of the population, China is pondering whether to relax its one-child policy in urban areas.
It is a wonderful story of hope, courage, tenacity and hard work.
OH, WHAT different lives these two great men live now.
FROM bad-breath evaluators to Barbie's dress designers and dog-food testers, US photographer and writer Nancy Rica Schiff snapped 65 black-and-white pictures of people doing unusual jobs.
HER days as a talk show host may be over, but Oprah Winfrey is not done talking. On Friday, when academic formalities for her graduation had been concluded, Dr Winfrey got off the stage, slipped into a form-fitting pink and orange dress and killer shoes, and came back on stage to do what she does best - inspire her audience.
