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"textContent": "It’s déjà vu all over again at the Joburg Film Festival, where South African film and television workers are again calling on the government to rescue a floundering rebate system and save the country’s beleaguered screen industries. Just weeks after hundreds of film and TV professionals marched on Parliament in Cape Town, demanding immediate action […]",
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