[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3uvUZbUwOiA&w=500&h=307&rel=0] Shocker. Children don’t always look like their parents. (Unfortunately not everyone got the memo that it is none of their business; like here and here.) * Courtesy of my wife, Jessica Blatt. — Sean Jacobs
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2noQowyoKQ&w=500&h=307&rel=0] I generally like French film director Claire Denis’ work. Her previous film set in an African country, 1988’s “Chocolat“–set in colonial French Cameroon–came out decent. She has now returned to an African subject again with her new film “White Material,” which incorporate themes of land reform, child soldiers and the fate of whites in […]
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8gRF_m6CSI&w=500&h=307&rel=0] The US Navy commissions a group called Blue Water to genetically engineer “a half-shark, half-octopus” called a Sharktopus to help combat Somali pirate ships. Then things go wrong. That’s the basis for the plot of “Sharktopus” (trailer above), a new TV movie on the American SyFy channel to debut later this year. Roger Corman […]
The question as to whether a coloured can become leader of South Africa's ruling party and even, more remotely, president of the country.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CyRgKxB7jug&w=500&h=307&rel=0] Unfunny Rick Reilly, a commentator on the American sportscaster, ESPN, insults new British Open champion, Louis Oosthuizen from South Africa. At least they resisted the Bagger Vance storyline. However, some media did not get the memo. — Sean Jacobs Via Bombastic Elements * Apologies to those blocked from watching this video because of ESPN’s copyright […]
“The thing that overwhelms most is the level of professionalism of native Africans in knowing how to serve a bottle of wine properly,” said Philip Crawford, a designer of luxury homes from Noosa, Australia. From a story by The New York Times correspondent in Johannesburg on how the World Cup had changed the way “… they […]
Black Diamonds is a recently released short documentary by Dutch filmmaker, Saska Vredeveld (view the film here). The film offers an inside view of the personal lives of three black South African entrepreneurs, including the odd Felicia Mabuza-Suttle, the “Oprah of South Africa.” The film’s promotional material very mistakenly refers to these people as South […]
How Euro-Americans - directly and indirectly - interact with the Congolese: only as victims.
The Boston Globe’s “Big Picture” site has also published Reuters photographer Finbarr O’Reilly’s widely circulated series of a group of 450 poor whites shack dwellers living in a camp in Krugersdorp close to Johannesburg. As I suggested before I am not surprised at this. The number of poor whites are obviously quite small when […]
HBO has selected the documentary, “Courting Justice”, by American filmmakers Ruth Cowan and Jane Thandi Lipman (Cowan created, and Lipman directed the film) as a competition finalist in the Martha’s Vineyard African-American film festival. The film is about the experiences of female, especially black female judges, in South Africa’s highest courts (that’s Supreme Court of […]
Nicholas Kristof of The New York Times, for all the people he's helped, lacks critical self-reflection.