Social media and political violence in Cape Town
Reporting on protests in poor communities where the mainstream media lacks, social media picks up the slack. This isn't always a good thing.
Cape Town
Reclaim the City
The Tafelberg site in Sea Point, a rich suburb of Cape Town, has come to symbolize
“We Are All Many Things”
South African creatives of Muslim background interact matter-of-factly with their social identity. An interview with playwright and novelist Nadia Davids.
Cape Town’s art fair
Art players and enthusiasts from around the world and down the street will coalesce at the
Crime in South Africa
Two books tell complex and illuminating stories of how crime and corruption play out at the street level in the country's cities.
The Edge of Wrong
The Edge of Wrong Music Festival in Cape Town adds value, especially in places where radio airtime has until very recently been monopolized by the American pop genre.
Why I left the most beautiful place on earth
The appeal of living off the grid, in a small, hippy bubble on the tip of Africa is what drew the author to Scarborough in Cape Town but the reality - especially the casual racism - drives him away.
The Permanent Exile
The Pan-Africanist intellectual and journalist Bennie Bunsee (79) passed away on October 10th in Cape Town,
Loit Sols & Churchil Naude, live from Coffebeans Routes in Cape Town!
Here it is, your live stream of “If you can’t see me, are you really there?” concert
Stream Africa is a Country’s live concert partnership with Coffebeans Routes, this Thursday
As we announced earlier this month, Africa is a Country is teaming up with Coffeebeans Routes
Cape Town is Three Countries: Curatorship in times of load shedding
“Load shedding” is a nice South African term for daily deliberate shutdown of electricity supply in
Africa is a Country teams up with Coffebeans Routes to present a Cape Town concert series.
This month we will be kicking off a special partnership with Coffeebeans Routes to bring you a
The art of unrest
Cape Town artists, Hasan and Husain Essop, tackle the struggle for land, adequate housing, education and equality in South Africa in their work.
What if black people inverted South Africa’s township tours?
Two black Capetonians went to rich Camps Bay and filmed white people going on about their lives.
Roger Young’s ‘Keys, Money, Phone’ explores the heart of young whiteness in Cape Town
Something is shifting in South Africa. White privilege is a hot topic, specifically in print and
Apartheid is not truly behind us
It makes perfect sense for the City of Cape Town to name one of the city's busiest roads after F.W. de Klerk.
I’m so happy in Cape Town
In South Africa's second city, poverty as well as other forms of inequality, are the direct consequence of elite and middle class wealth.
Explaining Racism to a White South African Liberal
Highlighting spectacular incidents of racial violence is that they overshadow the daily, unrecorded anti-black racist acts.
The Bullshit Files: The “Mandela Ray Ban Sculpture”
Public art, the vandalism of Nelson Mandela’s legacy for commerce and the spoiling of public space in Cape Town.
The Politics of Postapartheid Housing
Rather than the endpoint of the post-apartheid urban crisis, deficient delivery reproduces it anew, accentuating discontent in the process.