Back Then
Commercials to promote a retro music show on a local Cape Town, South Africa-radio station provides a necessary corrective to the amnesia and myth making in the country's public (and popular) life.
Apartheid
A ticking time bomb
Will the slow pace of land reform in South Africa, be the undoing of the ANC government?
Europe’s Apartheid
In a recent interview on French television to promote his new book “Sortir de la Grande
Vintage Bigotry, South African Edition
John Oliver, a “correspondent” for the comedy news show, “The Daily with Jon Stewart,” has been
South African music is more than Graceland
What often gets lost within the narratives of oppression and exile is that the 1960s and 1970s also proved to be an exceptionally vibrant and creative period.
ESPN observes Youth Day
I went to ESPN’s website to check WC scores and was surprised to find two short
Boers and Bantus
Vintage clips, from 1961, of Nelson Mandela, ZK Matthews, Helen Joseph, among others, on a Dutch TV program talking liberation from white supremacy.
People's Culture
[vodpod id=Video.3322857&w=450&h=370&fv=] Priceless footage of 1980s Community Arts Project in Durban, which, according to one of
Apartheid in Arizona
What’s up with John McCain’s home state? The state legislature has just passed an immigration law
Truth and Reconciliation
In Argentina members of that country’s military dictatorship that conducted a “dirty war”) against its people
Apartheid is a museum no one visits
How much do young South Africans, especially college students, know about their history? Not much, if these videos are any indication.
Apartheid was a White Party on Steroids
Annie Liebovitz's insights of South Africa under apartheid was quite ordinary: basically she sound like every other white visitor.
The Poor White Problem
Poor whites don't even make up 5% of the poor. Contrast that to more than 60% of blacks. But that's not a story for foreign media.
Joe Slovo is still one of my heroes
Joe Slovo was a key leader of the armed and exiled resistance against Apartheid and one of the most visible white face of that movement.