The first Afrikaans film at Cannes

Finally a teaser for the film “Skoonheid,” by Cape Town director, Oliver Hermanus, is now online. Billed as the first Afrikaans film to compete at the Cannes Film Festival, the film also finally screened earlier today at Cannes. That means the first mainstream reviews are in. They’re mixed. Here are some excerpts from the reviews […]

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White Culture

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In 2008  four white students from a still segregated dorm (on the overwhelmingly white Afrikaner campus) of the University of the Free State in South Africa made a racist video “… meant to protest the idea of racial integration in student housing [The video] showed a young man apparently urinating into a bowl of stew. […]

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