Beginning Workout
Talking about running: some ad people can make any city look good.
South Africa
Brakpan
Brakpan is a declining mining town east of Johannesburg in South Africa. Photographer Marc Shoul‘s images
Tumi's Tête Savante
We presume you’ve had Tumi and the Volume’s latest album, Pick A Dream, as much on
Music Break. Rattex
Long after midnight, once the tourists and the party-goers have left Cape Town’s Long Street, the
"You're a South African, what's your story?"
New Zealand is often sold to prospective (mostly white) South African immigrants as “South Africa 30
Die Antwoord’s At It Again
How long will be tolerate South African rappers, Die Antwoord's racist and homophobic antics?
Malema Time
South African elites and their political parties and trade unions cannot claim to represent the masses anymore. This has created space for Julius Malema's brand of populist politics.
The silence between portraits
Number 17 in our 'Found Objects': The short documentary, 'Mr. Mkhize,' by photographers Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin.
Denzel Washington is a Cape Town cop
When Hollywood comes to our doorstep they use Cape Town as a cheap stand in for somewhere else. We don't get to see our city on screen; represented authentically.
Occupy Africa
How do Africans–ground zero for resource extraction by the world’s 1%–feel about the now global ‘Occupy’
Woyzeck on the Highveld
In case you were too young to attend William Kentridge’s original version of the early nineties
Chris Martin’s Brain
Coldplay’s “Paradise” music video is set in South Africa. The video is mostly is an antiquated perception of the country held by many in the West.
Gaddafi’s white African mercenaries
Muammar Gaddafi relied extensively on mercenaries from elsewhere in Africa to secure his rule. It is usually assumed they're black Africans. It turns out a lot of them come from South Africa. And they're white.
The Dutch Disease
The media in the Netherlands have a schizophrenic relationship with South Africa, either fixating on Afrikaners, descendants of Dutch settlers, or fabricating a history of Dutch anti-apartheid zeal.
Contro'Versy
Tonight, the Afrikaaps crew, the South African musical about the history of the Afrikaans language, dedicated their
The news about land reform in Zimbabwe
Land reform and Zimbabwe; say those words in any order and you get a reaction. It
Only in Africa
Spotted on Youtube yesterday before it went viral: A South African professional mountain biker is taken
The essence of diaspora
Lori Grinker's photographs of her scattered Jewish relatives includes a significant section on South Africa, including some unexpected relations.