South Africa
Some of my best friends are braaiers
Barbecuing may be the perfect activity to remind South Africa that inequality is the first heritage we need to overcome.
Mapping neoliberalism
if there is any city in South Africa most suited to be labelled the 'apartheid city', it would be Cape Town.
Criminal Media
South Africa's mainstream media has a blindspot: It mostly covers crime as it affects the suburbs and whites. No wonder the readers are misinformed.
“Exceptional kaffirs”
The grumblings of dissatisfaction and anger among black readers over stories about deserving blacks in South Africa.
Fok Your Hood
Next time you see billboards advertising Cape Town as the “World Design Capital," know them for what they are.
White Springbok rugby fans and quotas
The writer, Lloyd Gedye, can handle most things, but the mischaracterization of attempts to deracialize the Springbok rugby team, made his blood boil.
Long Walk to Toronto
This boi pic of Nelson Mandela feels like it was picked at random from the Wikipedia version of Mandela's autobiography.
Under Nelson Mandela Blvd, Part Two
A Story About Cape Town’s Tanzanian Stowaways — Spring 2011.
A Century of Land Dispossession in South Africa
Interview with Ben Cousins, founder of PLAAS at the University of the Western Cape, and who has researched land reform since 1989.
The magical disposition
Township "Living," white people and the limits of "empathy"
South African photographer Kitty’s puzzling characters
The subjects, who were mostly black and Indian, were photographed around Durban by Singarum Jeevaruthnam Moodley, aka Kitty (1922-1987).
South Africa’s new youth underground?
"We've got Ferraris in Africa. What they gon' say now?", says one of the young people in a new video. Is that the ethics of South Africa's young?
People are going to know who Bob Hewitt is
Bob Hewitt migrated from Australia to apartheid South Africa. There he became a champion in white tennis. He is also accused of abusing children whose families trusted him as their tennis coach.
Violence against children doesn’t take place in a vacuum
A government proposal to outlaw violence by parents against their children exposes how widely acceptable the practice is in South Africa.
South African Low-Fi Freedom
A group of artists attempt to democratized the image of the country's past through ripping clips off Youtube to re-author what South Africans once knew.
Joyful Melancholy
Alex Lomani is part of the Congolese diaspora, who has lived in the US, the DRC and South Africa. He has just released "Mélancolie Joyeuse," a free EP on Bandcamp of four songs that each speak to his personal experience over the past couple of years.
Michael Caine on the Cape Flats
The film "Zulu" - starring Forest Whitaker and Orlando Bloom - are getting lukewarm reviews. Is the novel, it's based on, any good?
There is no liberal tradition in South Africa
Running like a blue thread through the history of South African liberalism is a readiness to defer to white prejudices that has been consistently repaid in the coin of unambiguous rejection.