Scenario planning is something of a cottage industry in South Africa and was particularly popular during the negotiations for democracy in the early 1990s. Careers were launched on the back of this industry, and speakers known for gazing into the crystal ball back then still pack halls with (white) middle class people worried about their […]
It's unfunny and borderline offensive. But Late night TV talk shows can't get enough of it.
"Miners Shot Down," by director Rehad Desai, is a haunting and emotional documentary of the Marikana massacre in August 2012.
White South Africans come together to vote as a bloc for only two political parties: the Democratic Alliance and Freedom Front Plus.
A short profile of the music scene in Cape Town is dominated by white shows – with a lot of electrocentric music and flashy strobe lights.
South Africa's media, already lacking any serious labor reporting, have no interest in fairly reporting the strike by mine workers.
The illustrators Fuzzy Slipperz and Skubalisto and the photographer Mooki Mooks on being an artist in present-day South Africa.
Workers in the Western Cape's wine district describe a place where bosses engage in a reign of force and aggression, and where workers are “afraid to die too soon.”
I got the chance to be part of the Redbull Basscamp in Johannesburg during October 2013. For six days, a unique cross-section of hand picked South African musicians holed up in central Johannesburg for lectures from music industry heavyweights in the morning (Hugh Masekela stopped by), followed in the afternoon by studio sessions which would, at times, stretch […]
Peter Clarke (84), who passed away on April 13, 2014, was an elder statesman of South Africa's arts community.
Why you've got to love the way the South African tabloid newspaper Daily Sun reported Caster Semenya's marriage to her girlfriend
This practice in some media of making white people who live in mostly black inner city Johannesburg, out as special. No.
The Cape Town suburb of Observatory is known for being a small bohemian enclave, providing low cost housing for students, artists and ‘free spirits’ of all sorts. Walk down Lower Main Road past the quaint mini-Victorian houses and sushi restaurants, and you’ll find all the familiar student-town tropes: aging hippies, overpriced vintage clothing, and laptop-ridden […]
Admit you didn't expect the Economic Freedom Fighters or EFF, a breakaway from the ANC, to do so well in South Africa's latest elections.
Twenty years after 1994, there is the deep discontent among the population about electoral politics and of politics in general. Freedom turned out to be a mirage.
Being Black in South Africa today must be a baffling, sometimes humiliating experience.
The AIDS activist Zackie Achmat reflects on South Africa’s 5th democratic elections in this interview with Cape Town independent media outlet, GroundUp.
A group of Colombian artists who live in South Africa on "the incredible amount of similarities between Colombia and South Africa"
The paintings in Meleko Mokgosi's ongoing "Pax Kaffraria" series interrogate colonialism, politics, power, and identity in Botswana and Southern Africa
Where does this leave the majority of largely poor, black and unskilled people affected by the competing interests of powerful groups?