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South African art across the ages

The British Museum is aiming to tell the entire story of visual art in South Africa, and they've allowed themselves just 200 objects to do it - from cave-paintings to the anti-apartheid movement. Our arts correspondent Vincent Dowd spoke to John Giblin, the exhibition's curator.

(Picture: Gold rhino. From Mapungubwe, capital of the first kingdom in southern Africa Credit: University of Pretoria)

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