Punks of the Witwatersrand
The Rise and Fall of National Wake, South Africa’s first multiracial punk band at the height of apartheid, that sang about state violence and political freedoms.
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Chris Webb
Christopher Webb is a writer and researcher living in Toronto. He is a research associate at the Centre for Social Change at the University of Johannesburg.
The picture is a beginning
There’s a certain humanity in the work of late South African photographer Santu Mofokeng in how he approached his subjects and the politics of representation.
Apartheid, anthropology and Johnny Clegg
All that French marketing schtick aside about “the white Zulu,” Johnny Clegg was a real one.
Exile, Return, Home?
Many will read Sisonke Msimang’s new memoir for its musings on exile and home, but it is also a political telling of the complicated South African transition.
Hugh Masekela’s musical modernism
Masekela wanted to craft a sound that avoided “world music” caricature while not simply mimicking the American Bebop he was so enamored of.
The roots of the current crisis in South Africa
The ways in which state elites and the private sector have found ways to swindle the poor.
Rhodes Must Fall Everywhere
Aside from the heady enthusiasm of campus politics, is there any variable that unites these seemingly disparate campus struggles and what can they learn from one another?
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.
The Book of Marikana
Rewriting history from below in South Africa by utilizing the voices of workers and their survivors themselves.