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This chapter will launch in July 2025 to coincide with the premiere of the documentary
The Heart in My Head and the opening of the exhibition
Resistance, Liberation, and Humanist Transformation in the Art Collections of Albie Sachs
at Zeitz MOCAA, which runs from 10 July 2025 until 31 May 2026
A society that takes itself too seriously risks bottling up its tensions and treating every example of irreverence as a threat to its existence. Humour is one of the great solvents of democracy. It permits the ambiguities and contradictions of public life to be articulated in nonviolent forms. It promotes diversity. It enables a multitude of discontents to be expressed in myriad of spontaneous ways. It is an elixir of constitutional health.
