Mural Art in Woodstock
What’s happening in (Cape Town’s neighborhood) Woodstock that makes local hipsters flood the place? The speed
South Africa
Stereo Wizards
Electronic rap duo and “stereo wizards” Dirty Paraffin at the Faraday Muthi Market in downtown Johannesburg
Milestones: South African newspaper, Mail & Guardian, opens YouTube account
The South African newspaper Mail&Guardian has a YouTube channel which makes browsing through their occasional video
Khayelitsha Blues
South African guitar duo Warongx are two of several artists portrayed in The Creators documentary. Above
This is not about Jacob Zuma's sex life
On Monday tens of thousands of young South Africans marched in Cape Town, South Africa, to
Music Break
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_O62AItxTs Not the official video for BLK JKS‘s Zol!”
Mandela in X-Large
We were hoping it would not come to this: The Nelson Mandela Foundation has launched an
Jonathan Jansen’s Burden
A profile of Jansen, vice chancellor of Free State University, on a leading online media outlet in South Africa, says more about the problem with liberalism in South Africa.
Hip-hop's Language Problem
Rob Boffard writing in The Guardian: Hip-hop in South Africa faces the same problems all music
There shall be satire for all
Recently Al Jazeera English’s media review show, Listening Post, did a breathless profile of South African
The History of 'South African' Cinema
The Johannesburg filmmaker Cedric Sundstrom has been working on a documentary film on the history of
Tidal Waves Goes South
Anyone who makes songs about politicians eating all the money–what else do they do?–gets our vote.
'Africa's First World Cup' Revisited
We’re allowed to talk about the 2010 World Cup until 2014. Later today our man, historian
File Under No Comment
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wTtUqxklzs Another of those pending posts. The video for “Flying High” for the British rapper Chipmunk
Konfab's Lost Tapes
Pioneer Unit’s on fire. Yet another release by the Cape Town label, this time a collection
Back Then
Commercials to promote a retro music show on a local Cape Town, South Africa-radio station provides a necessary corrective to the amnesia and myth making in the country's public (and popular) life.
The Uprising
Dylan Valley talks his film revisiting violent events of September 2010 when Cape Town municipal police waged war on poor black residents of rich, white Hout Bay.
A ticking time bomb
Will the slow pace of land reform in South Africa, be the undoing of the ANC government?
'The Legend of Polokwane'
No not the guy on the left.