Do people believe ex-prisoners can change their ways?
That was the question asked to people in Cape Town, South Africa, by the Prison Broadcasting
Cape Town
Cape Town’s make-believe politics
Cape Town remains one of the most racially and economically segregated cities in South Africa, and there aren’t many signs of things getting better.
Cape Town is ‘the most dangerous’ city in Africa
A Mexican research group has listed the world's most dangerous cities based on homicide rates. South Africa's cities finish tops.
Busted Rhymes
Gebaste Rhymes sent us a link to his single ‘Kaap issie Bom’ [translated: Cape is the
The Northern Ireland Connection
A new film challenges the “rainbow nation” narrative, highlighting South Africa's unfulfilled transformation. It involves local filmmakers, with 10% of profits supporting Cape Town's activists.
Music Break. Rattex
Long after midnight, once the tourists and the party-goers have left Cape Town’s Long Street, the
Denzel Washington is a Cape Town cop
When Hollywood comes to our doorstep they use Cape Town as a cheap stand in for somewhere else. We don't get to see our city on screen; represented authentically.
'Suit Up'
Nice video (Tiro Rose) and photographs (Ference Isaacs) of hip hop dancers from all over Cape
Contro'Versy
Tonight, the Afrikaaps crew, the South African musical about the history of the Afrikaans language, dedicated their
Holland is Kaaps
Afrikaans has its roots as a Dutch Creole, spoken by slaves, slave masters and workers of the Dutch East India Company at the Cape. A South African theater company took the play to The Netherlands.
Father figure
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNn2bqNSS6k&w=600&h=369] Filmmaker Kurt Orderson sent me “The Unseen Ones,” his new 19-minute musical documentary about the
Tupac Shakur in Africa
Tupac Shakur's intensity did not just appeal to just young people in the United States, but also on the continent.
Cape Doctor
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The Planet of Hip Hop
One of the founders of Cape Town rap music label, Pioneer Unit Records, talks about the local hip hop scene, talks about the coloured Afrikaans and Xhosa rap scene there.
Sesotho Cipher
Before moving down from Maseru to Cape Town in 2008 and exploring the Cape’s hip hop
The people of Blikkiesdorp
Photographer Lizane Louw chronicles the people of Blikkiesdorp, a temporary relocation camp on Cape Town's Cape Flats.
Corner Shops and Arcade Games
In hoods in 1980s South Africa, 20-cent pieces were used to play the old bootleg arcade games at corner stores. It also inspired a clothing label.
Pretty in Pink
One in ten young people on Cape Town's Cape Flats finish high school. The highlight of their school career - and sometime their lives - is prom, known as the matric ball.
Jeremy Cronin’s Cape Town
The leftist and poet Jeremy Cronin speaks on identity politics and race in South Africa's second city, Cape Town.
Music Break
I first saw Kesivan Naidoo play at the Independent Armchair Theater in Observatory. I was living