The old is dying and the young ones have just been born
These young ones who have just been born do not respect authority simply because the rules say they should.
South Africa
Let’s talk about Charlayne Hunter-Gault’s e-book on “Corrective Rape” in South Africa
Charlayne Hunter-Gault’s ‘Corrective Rape: Discrimination, Assault, Sexual Violence, and Murder Against South Africa’s LGBT Community’ is a rather wordy title for a mere 51 page e-book. Attempting to expand upon her original article ‘Violated Hopes’ from The New Yorker, the e-book claims to shed ‘light on the practice of corrective rape’ and examine ‘the wider social context of anti-LGBTI sentiment […]
To be young, privileged and black in a world of white hegemony
To bear witness to the cacophony of Rhodes Must Fall, as though trying to recall the days of a revolution I was born too late to witness.
A Metaphorical Biography
Santu Mofokeng’s photographs keep you wanting to know who are these people, what's their sophistications, and what's going to happen to these aspirations?
Profile of South African afro-psychedelic future pop sextet Bantu Continua Uhuru Consciousness
Foodzone is an eatery situated in Lakeview, Soweto, right next to the Rea Vaya bus station on the T1 route. Looking outside from the interior — Foodzone’s located inside a shipping container housing a variety of musical instruments in one corner and a stove where meals are prepared in another — one can see Regina Mundi church to […]
The art of unrest
Cape Town artists, Hasan and Husain Essop, tackle the struggle for land, adequate housing, education and equality in South Africa in their work.
Africa, in a state of constant self-discovery
Afripedia is a visual guide to contemporary urban culture on the continent.
44 Years of Walking Past Cecil John Rhodes’ Statue
The Life and Times of Mr Peter Buckton, a worker at the University of Cape Town in South Africa.
Xenophobia and Border Imperialism
To seriously respond to xenophobic violence, start with the deconstruction of border politics and acknowledging the colonial inheritance the border represents between countries.
The beautification of Stellenbosch University
The arrogance of apartheid-denialism at Stellenbosch University.
Apartheid’s Revenge
The ethno-nationalism that marked apartheid’s dying days has now morphed into a malignant “nativism” that threatens post-apartheid democracy.
Never becoming fully South African
Like many other African states, South Africans discharge their anger at political failings on easy scapegoats: those they deem foreigners.
Photo of the Day: What value do we place on African lives?
Today for the first time since Mandela was freed, I am ashamed to be a South African. All the years of pride in my birthplace have been replaced with loss and disbelief. The heroes our soil created who believed in freedom and equality regardless of anything else — race, gender, religion, creed and origin — […]
Achille Mbembe writes about Xenophobic South Africa
Why has this country historically represented a “circle of death” for anything and anybody ‘African’?
This is the sound of Cecil John Rhodes falling
Historic moments get a lot of phone camera coverage these days, but I wondered if radio could better capture the atmosphere at the rally to celebrate the removal of the Rhodes statue at the University of Cape Town. As the #RhodesMustFall movement said repeatedly, it’s not just about a statue. So I recorded what people […]
This brand of non-racialism is no better than denial
A review of a documentary film about the life of Albie Sachs, a noted antiapartheid activist and later Supreme Court Judge in postapartheid South Africa.
Mythologies of the Future
Johannesburg artists investigate power and its structures to interrogate the invisible forces that create them and to imagine alternatives.
The Rise of a Post-colonial University
In the last two weeks, students belonging to the #RhodesMustFall collective have rechristened and remade of one of University of Cape Town’s key administrative building as ‘Azania House.’ They have been occupying the building since March 20and it has become a nodal point for the student led collective. At the end of one of the […]
Googling “Jan van Riebeeck”? This is for you
Despite his negative legacy in South Africa, Van Riebeeck gets presented by some as someone locals should admire.
Black President
Kudzanai Chiurai, the Zimbabwean-born South African artist known for his ironic commentaries on postcolonial politics, is the subject of a documentary film by BLK JKS guitarist Mpumelelo Mcata.