Take a bewitching ride to utopian Gwadana

This world of beautiful outcasts collapses the everyday and the outlandish into one scene

18 January 2021 - 20:45 By Chris Thurman

We had to tell ourselves that 2021 would be better, because that was the only way of getting through 2020. But inevitably, the grim weirdness of last year has bled into the early weeks of this year — a bleak segue. Yes, Joe Biden will soon be US president, and yes, we’ll eventually get vaccinated against Covid-19, and yes, SA’s economy will emerge from recession, but it remains to be seen how deeply the local and global dystopian seeds have been planted...

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