Oscar Pistorius
Oscar Pistorius’ anxiety spectacle
Biased media reporting won’t advance popular and professional understandings on how psychiatric conditions interact social and economic sources of stress.
The Economist sees a bright side of Oscar Pistorius’ trial
For accurate, detailed and nuanced information about violence against women in South Africa, don't read The Economist.
Oscar Pistorius to be allowed to visit ailing Mandela–but without his gun
The visit would be a good opportunity for the nation to collectively heal; after all, both Oscar and Madiba have been through adversity.
The responsibility of media to women
Most men in South Africa share the same ideas about manhood that fuel assaults against women. The media should keep the spotlight on that.
Counting bodies and column inches
The Pistorius' murder trial is a good time to review how New York Times reported on another South African killing: Marikana.
The media’s culture of confirmation bias
When it comes to South Africa, US media publishes articles that may have been written already before an event even happened.
There’s “too much Africa in South Africa”
That what a Dutch writer Adriaan Van Dis told an Italian newspaper when asked about what South Africa is like now.