Julius Malema’s EFF and the South African Left
It is not often that analysts of diametrically opposed ideological tastes in South Africa agree, except about Julius Malema.
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T.O. Molefe makes his New York Times debut
The website of the international edition of the The New York Times website debuted two dozen new "international" columnists this week. One of them is an AIAC contributor.
How about booking a night in this ‘shantytown’?
A resort in South Africa's Free State province offers guests accommodation in "a Basotho village and a shantytown." Who comes up with this offensive stuff?
Anthony Bourdain goes to South Africa
For his CNN food travel show, Bourdain picks black Gauteng rather than pretend-European Cape Town and the Western Cape.
The most superficial politician in South Africa
Mmusi Maimane, despite his apparent reputation in opposition circles as a “man of the people,” appears to possess a rather limited political imagination.
Capitalizing on a mess
Johannesburg: the city where criminals don’t discriminate, but property developers do.
The new South African family film
The idea that a post-racial South Africa can only be achieved through the adoption of white ideals, culture, and norms by black South Africans.
Cape Town hip-hop got interesting again
The difference between Isaac Mutant and Die Antwoord is that Mutant is the real deal.
Ayn Rand in South Africa
In its current form libertarianism and its worship of the market is utterly irrelevant to South Africa.
Confronting Afrikaners’ cultural masochism
The frustration or inability to establish an identity that is free of hegemonic constructed myth – that ceases to be at odds with current reality.
A black boy with blue eyes
Introducing the South African writer, K. Sello Duiker's novel 'Thirteen Cents' to US audiences.
Weekend Music Break: The Brother Moves On
I followed The Brother Moves On around South Africa once. True story, I even wrote about
The political arrest of Bandile Mdlalose
Bandile is a giant of the Abahlali baseMjondolo social movement, which agitates for housing for poor, black people,
The care you are entitled to
Why do the middle classes in South Africa - regardless of race or ideology- pay their domestic workers such low wages?
What are the “unintended consequences of Dutch colonialism”?
In their documentary installation piece “Empire: The unintended consequences of colonialism,” filmmaker team Eline Jongsma and
The Story of South African Farming is a Women’s Story
The story of South African farming, especially small hold or small scale, independent, subsistence, emerging or
Some of my best friends are braaiers
Barbecuing may be the perfect activity to remind South Africa that inequality is the first heritage we need to overcome.
Mapping neoliberalism
if there is any city in South Africa most suited to be labelled the 'apartheid city', it would be Cape Town.
Criminal Media
South Africa's mainstream media has a blindspot: It mostly covers crime as it affects the suburbs and whites. No wonder the readers are misinformed.
“Exceptional kaffirs”
The grumblings of dissatisfaction and anger among black readers over stories about deserving blacks in South Africa.