[vimeo=http://vimeo.com/10636093 w=500&h=281] I want to see more of this film: The slam poet, Capela, is shown in a clip from the new short, “Slam Video Maputo” by Austrian director, Ella Raidel. The film explores “… the making of self-image of Mozambique where its popular culture mirrors the intersection of global and local cultures.” — Sean […]

The Social Justice, Gender and Health Reading Group, The Center for Place, Culture and Politics, and The Center for the Humanities present: Remembering E.H. Carr and the Case for a New History in South Africa Zackie Achmat Tuesday May 4th, 6:30pm, Room 6402 Venue: CUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10016.

[vodpod id=Video.3322857&w=450&h=370&fv=] Priceless footage of 1980s Community Arts Project in Durban, which, according to one of the founders, artist Bruno Brincat, was “… an idealistic arts project that was ahead of its time and got nixed by the apartheid authorities.”

An incendiary piece of video art, more like a short film–of raids, profiling and state terrorism–done by director Romain Gravas, for a new M.I.A. joint, “Born Free.” It was initially posted on Youtube yesterday, but taken down for “the violent and sexual images.” On Vimeo, not a mass video viewing site, it has had over […]

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VzFCSfP6mH0&w=480&h=295] The talks about trade opportunities between Iran and Zimbabwe during a visit to Zimbabwe by the Iranian president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, is all just bombast and hides other sinister political motives (like vote buying in Zimbabwe’s elections by Life President Robert Mugabe’s ZANU-PF). Of course, they’re not hiding it very well. Al Jazeera English

An Evening with Shelley Barry Wednesday, April 28, 2o1o At the next disTHIS!, South African filmmaker Shelley Barry will share a mixture of old, new and works-in-progress. Shelley, a wheelchair user as a result of taxi violence in her native country in 1996, made her frst film in 2003 while on a film scholarship in […]

Some things I missed or could not give proper attention to this week: * Apparently, “… Marlene Dumas, [the] South African-born artist whose work is sought by important collectors … has long kept a blacklist that prevents those she views as turning over her works too quickly from buying additional works by her.” I know, […]

Football historian Chris Bolsmann just sent me a note: “… If you want to buy the Bafana [Bafana replica shirt] at a ‘reasonable’ price [in the UK; 35 British pounds it is] you get the replica without the team’s Protea logo. Or you pay an extortionate price for the one with the logo.” But even […]