
Building a living archive of struggle
The struggle against the marginalization of students and the exploitation of workers at a historically black university in South Africa.
The struggle against the marginalization of students and the exploitation of workers at a historically black university in South Africa.
South Africa’s economic realities (inequality, poverty, unemployment, demographic underrepresentation, racism) must be at the heart of the curriculum.
At a time when South Africa is on fire politically, there is sadly zero social commentary on rapper Proverb's album, "The Read Tape."
The vigorous disruption by social movements and artists of the thuggish racialized mythmaking that dominates Stellenbosch’s cultural memory.
There are so many lessons from (and horrors) from the violence against black students at South Africa’s University
To equate the rage of South African student protestors with the official brutality of the state is the bedrock of conservatism.
The task for the new generation of South African activists is to reimagine power. That means resisting the impulse to use power in a way that demeans and cheapens and exploits.
The unprecedented levels of security for the opening of South Africa's Parliament in Cape Town.
To every passing person, he calls out variations of one question: "What film are you watching? Are you watching my film?
It's the end of the year, so Hipsters Dont Dance made a "Top World Carnival Collabs" of 2015.
Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, adored by the youth of Soweto in the 1980s, has gained traction in the activist imagination once more.
It has failed repeatedly to check misogyny within the ANC and made shallow attempts to check misogyny outside the movement.
An interview with Cape Town-based anarchist hip hop collective, Soundz of the South (or SOS).
When it comes to Africa, as Wole Soyinka recently wrote in his book "Of Africa," the West is constantly careening between hope and despair, Rwanda and Mandela
The appeal of living off the grid, in a small, hippy bubble on the tip of Africa is what drew the author to Scarborough in Cape Town but the reality - especially the casual racism - drives him away.
To what extent has South Africa and South Africans failed to address the aftermath of Apartheid, the resonances of which can be felt to this day? To what extent are we living in a post-traumatic space?
A black coated Nylophor fence transverses the Union Building lawns the day #FeesMustFall marched to the
White South African cricket writers should stop commenting on cricket as if the game is apolitical or the national team is still as all-white as when the country was first allowed back into international cricket.
We should not be tempted to idealize the university ‘as it was’ – especially in a country like South Africa.
Africa is a Radio show for October 2015. Sean and Elliot are on a break from