Fok Your Hood
Next time you see billboards advertising Cape Town as the “World Design Capital," know them for what they are.
Next time you see billboards advertising Cape Town as the “World Design Capital," know them for what they are.
The move comes in light of recent confusion over who owns Mandela’s legacy.
Interview with Ben Cousins, founder of PLAAS at the University of the Western Cape, and who has researched land reform since 1989.
Google defines an immigrant as "a person who comes to live permanently in a foreign country." We have our own definition.
How did leftist political scientist Adam Habib end up as a South African version of Thomas Friedman?
To understand why Tsvangirai's MDC can't win in Zimbabwe, it is helpful to move beyond the standard analysis of systemic electoral corruption and an unfair vote.
The love affair between Nigerians and Arsenal is an enduring one. Other English teams are also popular in the country, but the attachment many Nigerian football fans formed with the club during Nwankwo Kanu’s five year spell at Arsenal has withstood the frustrations of following the Gunners in the past few years. Following Arsenal’s impressive […]
Township "Living," white people and the limits of "empathy"
These are the days when corporate America can tell U.S. workers to stop complaining. They too would be part of the 1% if only they lived in Haiti, or Kenya or Uganda.
Liberian journalists are measured against the ideals of Albert Porte, a muckraking mid-20th century reporter. These days they're doing him proud.
Fantasizing about transferring refugees to third countries, has long been a project of the Israeli state and its policy makers.
There have been lots of stories in the British press recently related to immigration, and these have made it clear that a sentiment still exists that is opposed to the familiar xenophobia with which the topic is usually discussed in the UK.
A government proposal to outlaw violence by parents against their children exposes how widely acceptable the practice is in South Africa.
The meaningless football tournaments of the summer–mostly to the benefit of sponsors–are thankfully now over. Club football calendars from around the world have been synched (mainly to please European club owners), so this weekend was basically the start of the 2013/2014 season. This is also the first time North American fans of the English Premier League can watch every game. With the opening weekend out of the way, we can safely say NBC’s off to a good start–no one misses Eric Wynalda and Warren Bartlett or FOX’s plastic studio, but Piers Morgan as a guest host? And what’s with underestimating the football knowledge of American-based fans or presenting supporting a club is like picking different kinds of cereal? At least NBC have great commercials.
Ethiopian photographer Michael Tsegaye doesn't want to be pigeonholed. Neither does he want his country to be. So his art actively works against that.
When Forbes, who used to celebrate the Dos Santos family, starts asking questions about the wealth of Angola's rulers.
Why does Oprah Winfrey or anyone else need a $38,000 handbag and why would someone sell her that.
Many believe slavery was a "black page in history." This is a false representation of history and insulting, given the legacies of slavery are so present today.
Running like a blue thread through the history of South African liberalism is a readiness to defer to white prejudices that has been consistently repaid in the coin of unambiguous rejection.
It's worth remembering that the outcome of this election will represent stability more than change.