I’ve been puzzled and not a little disturbed by the lack of empathy on South African social media with the horrific events at Marikana, where 34 protesting miners were killed by police on August 16th. Yes, someone has posted a few links here, a few comments there, but given the magnitude of this event, and what […]
Not a ringing endorsement from film critic Jeanette Catsoulis in The New York Times for “The Bang Bang Club,” the new feature film based on the real-life adventures of four white South African photographers making their reputations recording the political violence of the early 1990s around Johannesburg: Why … do we care not one bit […]
