Canada’s 90s version of South Africa

March 7, 2012 By Leave a Comment
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The Canadian High Commission to South Africa, probably meaning well or deliberately unaware of the emptiness of rainbow metaphors, is looking for photographs capturing “the Rainbow Nation”. They’re working with the Johannesburg Bailey Seippel Gallery on this. The photographer’s entries will have to display “multi-cultural, multi-ethnic and multi-racial South Africa”. For real. It’s not the […]

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“Rhythm like you’ve never seen before”

February 2, 2010 By 2 Comments

I stand corrected, but no one mixes nationalism, tourism and sport in a feelgood cocktail quite like the South African advertising industry. Like in this TV commercial for South Africa’s national tourism authority, where Diski, a South African style of playing football–which in real life has only reaped bad results on the field–is roped into […]

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