Tuesday, April 2nd, 2013
A short South African Press Association bulletin on Monday announced the death of one Happy Sindane. If you don’t remember him (and South Africans are notorious for their short memories), he “made headlines in late May 2003 when he alleged that he was a white boy who had been kidnapped by black people.” Sindane had
Wednesday, September 12th, 2012
A muted response in the blogosphere persuaded me to write about Israeli interior minister Eli Yishai’s now not-so-recent remark, which I’ve come to think of as ‘the “white man” comment’. If you missed it, in June 2012...
Friday, March 9th, 2012
The creatives at South African satellite TV channel Kyknet — which also produces movies now — not only blatantly rip off American romantic comedy plotlines, but inhabit a South Africa where there is not a single black...
Friday, December 2nd, 2011
The proliferation of photographers documenting poor whites in South Africa is something to behold. This is significant since poor whites are only a fraction of the total white population — 450,000 out of 4.5 million live below...
Tuesday, November 15th, 2011
New Zealand is often sold to prospective (mostly white) South African immigrants as “South Africa 30 years ago” (wink, wink). That version of an Edenic idyll is not entirely what a young South African found New Zealand...
Thursday, October 20th, 2011
What is it with Dutch cultural elites and South Africa?
Music Break
26 Apr 2011 at 6:17 pm
The Hilton Schilder Support Trust
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‘No Longer Black and White’
19 Mar 2010 at 8:00 am
Music Break. Sayat Demissie
19 Oct 2011 at 7:00 pm
‘The West is no longer the Motor of...
15 Jan 2012 at 10:43 am
Patricia Asero Ochieng’s argument
2 May 2012 at 5:02 pm
‘Very African and Very Modern’
1 Feb 2012 at 9:00 am
The ‘African Men–Hollywood stereoty...
26 Apr 2012 at 11:57 am
Kehinde Wiley Goes To Paris
2 Nov 2012 at 7:00 am
