Tuesday, December 13th, 2011
What was Egg Films thinking? This award-winning South African production house responsible for several corporate commercials and short films created this video for 'The DNA project', a local "not-for-profit company committed to advancing justice through the expanded use of DNA evidence in conjunction with a national DNA criminal intelligence database."
Tuesday, September 27th, 2011
The American philosopher Lewis Gordon, in an essay on affirmative action: There are those who praise South Africa for making the transformation to a supposedly post-Apartheid society nonviolently. Without violence? The many blacks (in the Black Consciousness...
Monday, April 18th, 2011
The series Security takes as its subject the guards employed for protection by the middle and upper classes in wealthy districts of Johannesburg. It includes a watched-over street party and a visual catalogue...
Monday, April 5th, 2010
The murder of South African white supremacist leader, Eugene Terreblanche, over the weekend, will surely be exploited in the next few days. (Terreblanche was beaten and hacked to death by workers on his farm on Saturday who,...
Wednesday, October 7th, 2009
“… espite public grumbles, the government has had some success. If new police statistics are to be believed, the crime rate for the 21 most serious categories has fallen by nearly a fifth in the...
Thursday, September 3rd, 2009
I co-wrote (along with my friend Herman Wasserman) this op-ed, copied below, for Canada’s leading daily, “The Globe & Mail,” commenting on the case of the young white South African, Brandon Huntley, who was granted refugee status...
The White Man’s Burden
13 Sep 2011 at 11:39 am
10 things we learned from the Afric...
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Africa on Film: A New Series
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Made in Africa
6 May 2011 at 12:03 pm
Is Chester Missing blackface?
14 Jan 2013 at 3:10 am
Kuduro’s International Wave
24 Dec 2012 at 4:00 am
Zambia’s Turn
31 Jan 2012 at 6:00 am
JM Coetzee’s Cricketing Life
6 Feb 2012 at 6:00 am
The Year of Frantz Fanon
21 Dec 2011 at 11:00 am
