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THERE IS a new record price for a South African bull, following the sale of an 11 year old male for R1.65m (£85,0000) at a farm auction.

We love to hear about the African art and culture enriching people’s lives internationally. Here’s a collection of shows open this week around the world.

According to Hindu mythology, words whispered into the ear of a bull might be passed on to the gods. Guarding the temples of Lord Shiva are statues of Nandi the Bull, the dear companion and mount of the god himself. Reaching down to graze the foot of Nandi brings the promise of fertility, and here on Earth, cattle are the rare and precious emissaries of the divine realm.

‘Photographs In Our Mother Tongue’: The new South Africa under scrutiny 10 May 2021 Hasan and Husain Essop’s Facing Giblah, 2010, inhabits the mode of self-portraiture, accounting for several photographs in this Standard Bank Gallery exhibition. Former president Nelson Mandela famously said, “If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you speak to him in his own language that goes to his heart.”  In a country with 11 official languages and countless more unofficial languages, people are often forced to live in a world in which they find themselve...