What if black people inverted South Africa’s township tours?
Two black Capetonians went to rich Camps Bay and filmed white people going on about their lives.
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The strongman’s vision of democracy
Former South African President Jacob Zuma’s various rationalizations and obstructions for his crimes make for good drama. But they also reveal Zuma’s aversion to the rule of law.
Happy Father’s Day
The Soweto Uprising, Tupac, Walter Rodney, Jeremy Corbyn, Latin American telenovelas, etcetera, all part of this week's Weekend Special.
I’m so happy in Cape Town
In South Africa's second city, poverty as well as other forms of inequality, are the direct consequence of elite and middle class wealth.
Not stitched together
This week's Weekend Music Break, no. 50, includes a homage to the 34 striking miners murdered by South African police in August 2012.
South Africa’s Left needs a new party
Assuming today’s socioeconomic crisis benefits the Left is folly. That will only happen if we have the political vision to make class the fault line of social polarization, and for that we need to face the challenge of constructing a new party.
Nelson Mandela and the ANC
Nelson Mandela has always elicited divergent, incorrect and unrealistic reactions among his detractors and supporters.
Linton Kwesi Johnson and Black British Struggle
The originator of dub poetry talks about the role of culture in politics, antiracist and class struggle in the UK.
Kenneth Kaunda and the United States
The less well-known, and complicated, story of Kenneth Kaunda’s central role in relations between Zambia and the United States.
Sending South African miners home to die
Sick mineworkers condemned to rural South Africa, die there with little or no continuation of care, follow up, or chemotherapy.
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.
The University as a Place to Think
How we harness knowledge to the ethical injunctions we uphold against marginality, pain or suffering, on a global scale.
The limits of African autonomy
Achille Mbembe on how the Ebola Crisis exposed Africa’s dependency on the West.
Remembering Mandela and Other Weekend Specials
Weekend Special is all that stuff we wanted to, but did not get around to writing about or just shared on social media.
Superheroes of History
Batman watches Cuban revolutionary Fidel Castro addressing US media in an imagined black-and-white 1959 photograph.
Keorapetse Kgositsile was a feminist
How Kgositsile ensured he never expressed himself like a white man.
The puzzle as propaganda
At the height of African decolonization, radical writers turned to interactive features like competitions and quizzes to engage their audiences.
Who are the Olympics for?
Beneath the image of togetherness, the world’s biggest athletic spectacle is still beset by discrimination and exclusion.
Reading List: Mara Kardas-Nelson
How did microfinance become a craze championed by bleeding-heart progressives to Global South economists, American presidents, and business executives?
Killing the collective
We know an enormous amount about what precipitated the 2012 Marikana massacre, but relatively little about what is behind the violence there since.