AFRICA IS A COUNTRY

Winnie Mandela

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Monday, December 31st, 2012

2012′s SMH (also known as “Africa is a Country”) Moments

There are times we shake our heads or roll our eyes. When we could not invent some of the things that we spot in the media. For some reason especially New York Times journalists can’t help themselves (though there are some exceptions like Lydia Polgreen reporting from Johannesburg). For example, former Times editor Bill Keller

Wednesday, June 8th, 2011

Jennifer Hudson is no Winnie Mandela

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-iCm0wmf_H8&

Friday, May 13th, 2011

Winnie Mandela Sings Opera

Any word on the artistic value of this production now playing in the South African capital, Pretoria, and which Winnie Mandela, now also an arts critic, declares takes “… us ten steps further … we are part...

Monday, May 2nd, 2011

What to make of Julius Malema

Julius Malema, the young ANC leader recently described by Winnie Mandela as “the future President of South Africa” can get a rise out of people. And he is often a stand-in for all kinds of prejudices. As...

Tuesday, February 15th, 2011

‘The Real Housewives of Civil Rights’

It’s suppose to be funny. Winnie Mandela even makes an appearance.

Tuesday, November 16th, 2010

Winnie?

If you’ve got four minutes, here’s the trailer for the highly anticipated (that’s debatable) biopic of Winnie Mandela, starring Jennifer Hudson as the title character and none other than Terrence Howard as Nelson Mandela. It...

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