Friday, December 21st, 2012
South Africa’s Mail & Guardian reported a few days ago that the secretary of Shabir Shaik (the Jacob Zuma associate comvicted of fraud) once testified in court that her boss “has to carry a jar of Vaseline because he gets fucked all the time (by politicians), but that’s okay because he gets what he wants
Thursday, September 13th, 2012
I’ve been puzzled and not a little disturbed by the lack of empathy on South African social media with the horrific events at Marikana, where 34 protesting miners were killed by police on August 16th. Yes, someone has...
Wednesday, May 16th, 2012
The obituary of British anti-apartheid campaigner Bruce King makes reference to his marriage to his South African wife, Jamela Adams. It describes their wedding in "a Muslim ceremony in Cape Town" in 1964 in defiance of the...
Tuesday, March 6th, 2012
Last week, after Malema was expelled from South Africa’s ruling party, we went back and looked at our archives to see how we’ve blogged about him and his politics. Here’s a sample.
Friday, January 6th, 2012
On Thursday, the Al Jazeera English program, "The Stream," discussed the 100th anniversary of South Africa's ruling party, the African National Congress or ANC. I was a guest on the 30 minute live show. It proved to...
Monday, June 20th, 2011
UPDATE: The South African Civil Society Information Service (SACSIS) keeps bringing it. This is not the handwringing of The Daily Maverick passing for insight. Most of the op-eds on the site go over the heads of the...
The people of Blikkiesdorp
18 Jul 2011 at 10:00 am
The Life and Times of Harry Belafon...
20 Jun 2011 at 9:30 am
Harlem is Nowhere
9 Aug 2011 at 6:58 am
SAVE DARFUR
25 Sep 2009 at 3:17 am
Woman, object, corpse: Killing wome...
1 Mar 2013 at 11:00 am
Julius Malema’s History
6 Mar 2012 at 6:00 am
The other African election, Round 2...
7 May 2012 at 12:00 pm
Mexican dolls
11 Jan 2012 at 3:16 pm
Six lessons from Ghana’s 2012 elect...
11 Dec 2012 at 11:00 am
