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Group of five young people standing indoors in front of a mural featuring handpainted portraits, smiling and holding up small paint bottles.
Creator: FES South Africa

What if ‘renewal’ meant going beyond cynicism and a world of pandemics and war?

Colourful portrait-style mural showing a woman wearing a green headwrap and blue button-front dress, smiling and holding a basket filled with pink flowers and vegetables. Beside her stands a bearded man in a pink shirt with a baby peeking out from a yellow cloth wrap on his back. Both figures are rendered with grayscale faces against a colourful, illustrated style, with the artist's signature visible in the lower right.
Creator: New Beginnings / Description of Painting by ARTIST Sikelelwa Maqhin

New Beginnings

New beginnings is based on the renewal of gender inequalities and challenges to patriarchy.

Mural showing a joyful boy in a grey shirt and dark trousers, wearing a backpack with visible straps and a belt, smiling broadly while holding up a small South African flag. To his left is a softly rendered portrait of a smiling woman wearing a headscarf; to his right, a partial grayscale portrait of an older man's face appears mid-expression. The overall palette is muted grey apart from the boy's flag and clothing.
Creator: Akusafani Nakuqala / Description of Painting by Artist Lunga Mabongo

Akusafani Nakuqala

Acceptance of absent fathers is rapidly increasing, almost to the point of becoming a culture.

Illustrated mural depicting a person's face emerging above a South African flag that appears to be shattering outward, with two clenched fists gripping the flag's top edge. Below, a black silhouette of a crowd raises fists and protest placards, one visibly reading "No Jobs" and another partially reading "New Opportu[nity]."
Creator: Lets break the cycle / Description of Painting by Artist Lwanda Mthengenya

Lets break the cycle!!!

Adherence to good governance creates an environment where corruption struggles to flourish.

Portrait-style mural of a man wearing a pink/red shirt, looking directly at the viewer with a visibly bruised, reddened eye and a bandage on his forehead. The image is painted with a fractured, shattered-glass overlay effect across the face and background, giving a cracked or broken appearance. The mood is somber, rendered in muted grey tones apart from the skin and injury.
Creator: Indoda ayikhali / Description of Painting by Artist Lukho Dyongo

Indoda ayikhali

"indoda ayikhali" meaning a man does not cry.

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