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‘Let’s pray that this is one bit of culture that won’t make it out of Africa’
October 18, 2011 By 2 Comments
The Proper Use of a Vuvuzela
September 15, 2010 By 1 Comment
Geert Wilders, the rightwing Dutch politician was in New York last week to lend support to his American counterparts at a rally in lower Manhattan near the site of the 2001 terrorist attacks. Then this happened: On a packed block of demonstrators between Murray and Warren streets, Wilder’s words were drowned out when a slim […]
Vuvuzela Bafana
June 16, 2010 By 4 Comments
Africa really is a country
June 9, 2010 By 2 Comments
While everybody back home in South Africa today celebrated Vuvuzela Day, the rest of us had to find something else with which to show our support for our local team – like a T-shirt, for example. So thankfully the UK sports chain Decathlon had shirts on sale for those football supporters who really believe that, […]
The Vuvuzela in the Room
April 5, 2010 By 1 Comment
Celebrating the World Cup does not mean we can’t ask hard questions . No, not that the annoying vuvuzelas are banned, but that thousands of informal traders will lose income because of Fifa-imposed “exclusion zones” around stadiums which permit only approved businesses, that street children are forcibly removed from Durban’s city centre, and in Cape […]
