Search Result(s) for: “apartheid”
The Blitzboks in America
What the recent World Rugby Sevens Series global championship reveals about national rugby cultures, particularly South Africa's.
Long Walk to Toronto
This boi pic of Nelson Mandela feels like it was picked at random from the Wikipedia version of Mandela's autobiography.
The Extreme Makeover of Patri$e Mot$epe
Motsepe was named South Africa’s first black dollar billionaire by Forbes Magazine.
Benjamin Netanyahu’s government loves Africa
A big reason for this is to counter the growing success of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement.
They Just Stood There Naked
What was Johannesburg newspaper, The Star, hoping to achieve with this dehumanizing image?
The Art of Peter Clarke
Peter Clarke, who passed away on April 13, 2014, was an elder statesman of South Africa's arts community.
How not to change a curriculum
One of South Africa's leading universities, UCT, released a curriculum change framework post-#RhodeMustFall. This is a critique by two alum.
Invisible labor in plain sight
South Africa has 52 million people. Around 1.1 million are domestic workers. 54,000 of those are under the age of fifteen.
Stuart Hall in Africa
Though Hall's work was written from the vantage point of the black immigrant experience in the UK, some of it resonated in South Africa.
Hip hop and electoral politics
South Africans vote on May 2nd, 2014, the country's 5th democratic elections. Do rappers vote?
The violence within us
Police violence, racism and the connections between Minneapolis in the United States and Cape Town, South Africa.
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.
How to film a revolution
The films of Robert Van Lierop and Margaret Dickson chronicled anti-imperial struggles in Mozambique.
Ben Turok’s commitments
Turok, who died at 92, was committed to fighting for the ideals of the left in South Africa. It is worth reviewing what his contribution to these ideals were in the final chapter of his life.
The winners and losers of the platinum strike in South Africa
Will the trade union that organized the strike will unify and rally workers outside of the ruling alliance.
The New Yorker and the Mercenaries
An open letter to the New Yorker over its approving coverage of mercenary-activity-for-humanitarian-intervention, despite its record of failure in Central Africa.
The longest shadow
We tell our stories when we are ready. This story is about the child sexual abuse I experienced at the hands of Anglican priests in South Africa.
What happened to Mbuyisa Makhubo?
A youth activist that came to prominence in the 1976 student uprising in South Africa has been missing since 1978.