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A dispatch from Outremont
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Impunity and evictions in South Africa
Who do you turn to when the government is the one breaking the law?
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July 2020

Leaving
Dispatches from Gauteng when I'm no longer in Gauteng
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New slang
Our next door neighbour always starts braaing early on Saturday afternoon. First, there is the thick wave of smoke as the fire starts, then, a few hours…
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Secretly Canadian
Soccer, advertising, international trade and South Africa's favourite beer
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Jacob Serebrin

June 2020

Winter
Below zero below the Equator
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The leaves change but nothing else
How do you write about travel when you can’t go anywhere? When I started this newsletter, I worried I would get ahead of myself, that I would tell all…
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Jacob Serebrin

April 2020

Day 28
Missing where you are
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Jacob Serebrin
In the shadow of Caesar
Ancient cities in the modern world: part three
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Jacob Serebrin
Life under lockdown in Johannesburg
A dispatch that's actually from Gauteng
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March 2020

When the new city is 500 years old
Ancient cities in the modern world: part two
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Jacob Serebrin
It's Istanbul not Constantinople
Ancient cities in the modern world: part one
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Jacob Serebrin
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