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Johnny Issel, who has died at age 68, was a prominent activist for leftist social movements in 1980s South Africa.

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it is a testament to the hosts that my young daughter insists South Africa won the 2010 World Cup.

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Students in my Media and Africa seminar at The New School create short video profiles of African immigrant experiences in New York City. Here I highlight a few of the striking ones.

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• Tom Devriendt

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• Brett Davidson

Are publishers unwilling to back anything besides more of the same tried, tested and tired old formula?

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• Kristin Palitza

The author, a German journalist new to South Africa, writes about her first impressions and experiences, especially with local whites; so different from anything she knew or experienced before.

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• Suren Pillay

From nationalism, we have passed to chauvinism, and finally to racism. Why are South Africa's middle classes not mobilizing against xenophobia.

• Brett Davidson

Ahead of every World Cup or Olympics, sensational media reports of sex trafficking and prostitution are never borne out by facts.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

A new film - and play - want to mainstream Afrikaans' creole origins; a historical reality odds with Afrikaner nationalist visions of language.