Too many films about the 2010 World Cup
Here's some things I did not have the time to blog about properly or link to this past week. It's Weekend Special.
Here's some things I did not have the time to blog about properly or link to this past week. It's Weekend Special.
This is another Weekend Special post: compiling news and links we didn't have time to focus on in the last week.
It's no accident that so many South Africans watch and support English Premier League football teams.
So as usual, a bunch of links—new as well as ones—that have piled up in my bookmarks folder. It's Weekend Special.
Surely Jesse Jackson did some basic research on Laurent Gbagbo's rightwing identity politics before accepting an invitation from his supporters?
Who are the real victims of crime and violence in South Africa?
The victim politics peddled on blogs by a section of expatriate white South Africans--often with positive results for them.
Joe Slovo was a key leader of the armed and exiled resistance against Apartheid. He was also the most visible white face of that movement.
Business magazine, Forbes, made a list of "The 100 Most Official Women": The top African on the list is the United Nations' top human rights official, Navi Pillay, from South Africa.
Anyone could have told mainstream Western media that Jacob Zuma would follow conventional rightwing economic policies. Why are they acting surprised?
Apartheid South Africa and Israel had a close relationship from the inception of the latter.