South Africa
To be young, privileged and black in a world of white hegemony
To bear witness to the cacophony of Rhodes Must Fall, as though trying to recall the days of a revolution I was born too late to witness.
A Metaphorical Biography
Santu Mofokeng’s photographs keep you wanting to know who are these people, what's their sophistications, and what's going to happen to these aspirations?
The art of unrest
Cape Town artists, Hasan and Husain Essop, tackle the struggle for land, adequate housing, education and equality in South Africa in their work.
Africa, in a state of constant self-discovery
Afripedia is a visual guide to contemporary urban culture on the continent.
Forty-Four Years of Walking Past Rhodes’ Statue
The life and times of Mr Peter Buckton, a worker at the University of Cape Town in South Africa, which is currently the focus of student protests.
Xenophobia and Border Imperialism
To seriously respond to xenophobic violence, start with the deconstruction of border politics and acknowledging the colonial inheritance the border represents between countries.
The beautification of Stellenbosch University
The arrogance of apartheid-denialism at Stellenbosch University.
Apartheid’s Revenge
The ethno-nationalism that marked apartheid’s dying days has now morphed into a malignant “nativism” that threatens post-apartheid democracy.
Never becoming fully South African
Like many other African states, South Africans discharge their anger at political failings on easy scapegoats: those they deem foreigners.
Achille Mbembe writes about Xenophobic South Africa
Why has this country historically represented a “circle of death” for anything and anybody ‘African’?
This brand of non-racialism is no better than denial
A review of a documentary film about the life of Albie Sachs, a noted antiapartheid activist and later Supreme Court Judge in postapartheid South Africa.
Mythologies of the Future
Johannesburg artists investigate power and its structures to interrogate the invisible forces that create them and to imagine alternatives.
Googling “Jan van Riebeeck”? This is for you
Despite his negative legacy in South Africa, Van Riebeeck gets presented by some as someone locals should admire.
Black President
Kudzanai Chiurai, the Zimbabwean-born South African artist known for his ironic commentaries on postcolonial politics, is the subject of a documentary film by BLK JKS guitarist Mpumelelo Mcata.
Playing cricket while Black
Black players are consistently reduced to their racial identities by the South African media.