Music Break: Gugulethu’s rooftops
You’ll rarely see local rap artists, especially ones from Cape Town, on South African music video channels. But not if Driemanskap had anything to do with it.
Cape Town
Die Antwoord is Badass
Die Antwoord's magnetism (or repulsion) lies in the way they combine clichés about race with those of gender and sexuality.
Cape Town Styling
The postponed revolution of South African fashion blogger Malibongwe Tyilo.
Die Antwoord is Blackface
Die Antwoord is basically blackface. But blackface is also tricky, argues poet and writer Rustum Kozain.
The Wrong Answer
The nonsense that foreign journalists, who don't understand Afrikaans or the language's creole cultural history, write about Die Antwood.
The Story of a Coloured Mother
The film "Shirley Adams" is the story of a coloured mother in Mitchell's Plain in Cape Town, struggling to care for her recently disabled son.
Who will get rich
The fantasy that local people - small businesspeople, informal traders, especially black people - will make money or get jobs during the 2010 World Cup.
Family ties
The Wall Street Journal has an interesting news piece on the growing migration by Portuguese workers to Angola.
Hip Hop History 101, South African Session
The Cape Town group, Prophets of da City, should get credit for kickstarting South African hip hop. They were also politically righteous.
The Cape Doctor
Robbie Jansen is a key figure in what is referred to as South African, especially Cape Town, jazz.