Recently, one of the Rupert clan (brands: Cartier, Dunhill, Montblanc and Piaget, etcetera), Hanneli Rupert, opened a leather-goods outlet in South Africa, naming it “Okapi”. And the PR is charming, though not aimed at anyone who has read any postcolonial critique in the last forty or so years.
Long after midnight, once the tourists and the party-goers have left Cape Town’s Long Street, the city’s darling hub looks pretty vacant, apart from the accidental taxi-driver — it forms the backdrop for South African rapper Rattex’s new video ‘Ewe Nje’. With an album and a mixtape under the belt, but hard to find in […]
