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How music is creating harmony between rival gangs

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“I use my voice to change lives.” How an iconic musician is fighting malaria

Beautiful News-Housing in Colombia

Are coffee husks the answer to Colombia’s housing crisis?

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Embracing his mother tongue set this writer free

Old Lady. Rugby.

Eastern Cape rugby has a new face

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“Black pride builds communities.” This artist is bringing people of colour to the forefront

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Break. Discover. Create. Inside the curious mind of an inventor

Three lives.

Our strength rose from the ashes of tragedy

Design.

Draw calm from chaos with this ancient creative method

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He started out scrubbing floors. Now he runs the place

Challenge convention with fatal frogs, archaic violins, and therapeutic tea leaves

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This week in Beautiful News, unearth empathy. Joshua Rubin. The documentary photographer revealing the truth of stigmatised communities. Gilde Tahindraza. The conservationist restoring fishing communities in Madagascar. Corroboree Frogs. The little amphibians with a lethal weapon. Veriko Tchumburidze. The classical violinist enrapturing modern audiences. Clanwilliam. The rooibos capital of the world. Ronni Abergel. Starting a new chapter of compassion with a human library. This is Beautiful News.

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