Zimbabwe is a victim of outsiders’ fantasies
Zimbabwe is its own self, its own country, not some echo chamber from which people hope to catch reverberated strains of their own discourses.
South Africa
That uncomfortable feeling
The ‘premature’ launch of South Africa’s second 24-hour news television channel.
Little Stan Greenberg is Dead
South African political party, the DA, pivots its election campaign around claiming Nelson Mandela. Who came up with this?
Not all the news that’s fit to print
How the U.S.'s paper of record, the New York Times, "debates" South Africa's "future."
The Story of South Africa’s Very Violent Farms
Thanks to labor groups in Sweden, a major importer of South African wine, who have recently called attention to labour abuses on farms.
This Film Has Been Banned
The South African feature film, "Of Good Report," deals with the relationship of a teacher with his underage student. The local censors decided it is a crime to screen it.
The Making of Hashim Amla
Hashim Amla’s appearances on the cricket pitch and its meaning, reflects similarly on South Africa’s own, ongoing, liberation struggle.
On the Pain of Violent Men
TRIGGER WARNING: sexual violence Let me start by saying that I feel very ambivalent about causing
The Banned Film
South Africa's film censor bans the film 'Of Good Report' by Jahmil XT Qubeka, which deals with predatory teachers.
Julius Malema’s next move
In South Africa, many youth votes are up for grabs for the first time, from the generation facing 70% unemployment and with little loyalty to the ANC of their parents.
How to be a man
The simple fact that all forms of violence in South Africa have a male face tells us there’s something fundamentally wrong with ideas around manhood there.
Have some sympathy for the poor suffering bosses
Miners at multinational Lonmin platinum mine at Marikana in Rustenburg, South Africa, speaking to (South African)
My Favorite Photographs N°17: Thina Zibi
Thina Zibi demonstrates with her images the incredible innovation evident in contemporary South African design and style.
An environmental calamity
The South African photographer Gideon Mendel's images of people affected by flooding in seven sites, including Nigeria.
Actual questions from a South African journalist
The long-held and widespread attitudes some South African journalists share about the struggle for liberation.
The District on Cape Town’s “Fringe”
What it means to belong in post-apartheid urban space and how to reckon with history.
Pan-African Twerking
That South Africa has a "Pro Twerk Team" may seem like a great opportunity to see twerking from a new, non-American perspective. Or to throw shade.
The BBC’s standards when it comes to South Africa
Western media's repetitive focus on white South Africans distorts reality, ignoring data on poverty and crime disproportionately affecting black citizens, fueling a misleading, provocative narrative.
Mining the Body
What can the photographs of American anthropologist Danny Hoffman tell us about Sierra Leone and Liberian mineworkers or about mining in West Africa?
Freedom Day
The ways in which Nelson Mandela’s image as a referent of South Africa's recent past has been appropriated, signified and transformed into material form as commemoration.