You’d be forgiven if you thought the images came from a B-grade Hollywood, straight-to-DVD action flick. Complete with the familiar racist tropes of starving, diseased children in a war-torn African country being saved by a blonde heroine. But this is the latest installment in Afrikaner schmaltz peddled by Bok van Blerk, who a few years […]
The Radio Kalahari Orkes
October 20, 2009 By 33 Comments
The video for the song, “Staan My By” by Die Radio Kalahari Orkes, a South African band that count among its members the controversial author Rian Malan and the actor Ian Roberts (his credits include the movie, “Tsotsi“). Some might easily dismiss it as a vanity band. So I asked my friend Herman Wasserman, who […]
