Confronting Afrikaners’ cultural masochism
The frustration or inability to establish an identity that is free of hegemonic constructed myth – that ceases to be at odds with current reality.
The frustration or inability to establish an identity that is free of hegemonic constructed myth – that ceases to be at odds with current reality.
On a recent trip to South Africa, I managed to fit in a visit to the
In Dutch politics, Africa mostly works as a tactic to embarrass and ridicule your opponent.
The history of popular music in South Africa continues to interest documentary filmmakers. Of recent offerings
It has come to this. Don’t focus too much on the ‘your scholarship’ line. An email
Factual media reporting on how South African relationships and attitudes, especially between blacks and whites, evolve are hard to come by.
Muammar Gaddafi relied extensively on mercenaries from elsewhere in Africa to secure his rule. It is usually assumed they're black Africans. It turns out a lot of them come from South Africa. And they're white.
Finally a teaser for the film “Skoonheid,” by Cape Town director, Oliver Hermanus, is now online.
Bok van Blerk's new music video mines familiar racist tropes of starving, diseased children in a war-torn African country saved by a blonde heroine and her white male companion.
The first group of people who called themselves Afrikaners were Orlams people, who would be called coloured in South Africa today.
In Argentina members of that country’s military dictatorship that conducted a “dirty war”) against its people
The curious appeal of a band of celebrity Afrikaner musicians engaging with a quite easily defined past and present.