My Word! Redesigning Buckingham Palace, is a one-man play, written by Sylvia Vollenhoven and performed by co-writer and …
Tag: Apartheid
Peter Clarke: “I remember thinking, if he who is black can be an artist, so can I.”
Influenced by the Mexican muralists of the 1930s and ‘40s, and also by the German Expressionists, the South African arti…
#WhiteHistoryMonth: Counter-Revolutionary Agents in Apartheid South Africa
The covert nature of the apartheid regime’s “total strategy” to combat revolution rendered much of South Africa’s deadli…
Ruud Gullit and the Struggle for South African Freedom
Ruud Gullit was more than a total footballer. It was not for no reason that the late Nelson Mandela praised him as ‘a so…
12 Years a Slave: A view from the Other South
A grossly detestable subjection of one human being by another, slavery was a structural guarantor of white control of bl…
Elizabeth Barrett’s house on Harrington Street, Cape Town
I find Nicholas Eppel’s photographs of Elizabeth Barrett striking because it reveals the intimate details of the on-goin…
“Happy Africans”
It’s unclear how big the Gun Owners of America are (the NRA predominates in the numbers and in terms of influence)…
Nelson Mandela and the Dutch
Shortly after his release from prison, Nelson Mandela embarked on a six week tour across Europe. As the Dutch newspaper …
Posters that Challenged Apartheid
Many of us who were active in the international anti-apartheid movement are recalling our shared history as we reflect o…
Confronting Afrikaners’ cultural masochism
South African artist Richardt Strydom’s photography is beautiful to me – albeit it in a perverse, guilty kind of way. Th…