Gay Shame in Johannesburg
The confrontation at Johannesburg Pride between white organizers and a group of black activists demanding Pride honor those killed, mostly black, for their sexuality, in South Africa.
Johannesburg
My favorite photographs N°8: Sydelle Willow Smith
Among the most striking portraits in South African photographer and filmmaker Sydelle Willow Smith’s online portfolio
Akin Omotoso’s Country
A recurring theme in director Akin Omotoso's films is the fraught postapartheid relationship between Nigerian migrants and their South African hosts.
Replete with Color
Zachary Rosen, a former Peace Corps official, describes his favorite photographs to us.
The official Canadian view of South Africa
The Canadian High Commission to South Africa, probably meaning well or deliberately unaware of the emptiness
The sound of Joburg label Iapetus
From Zetina Mosia’s upcoming album “The RoundAbout”, this track: ‘Lately’. We’ve said this before, but the
The fragmentary character of memory
John Akomfrah's 'The Nine Muses' obliquely tells the history of migration to Britain in the 1950s and 1960s.
Benetton Politics
The made-upness and the shallowness of the Democratic Alliance of South Africa's vision of a non-racial future.
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.
The New South African Superstar
Zahara has become the top pop artist in South Africa in a fairly short time but
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.
Beginning Workout
Talking about running: some ad people can make any city look good.
Photography. Sam Buk
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The Gautrain
EDITED: Useful summary of the South African government’s ambitious plans for the first high-speed commuter train
Music Break
[vimeo=http://vimeo.com/24394476 w=580&h=324] The new music video for “Drip Dry” by the Johannesburg hipsters Dirty Paraffin. The
An Ordinary Killing
Riveting piece of journalism in this weekend’s New York Times Magazine as well as an accompanying
Revolt
Voltz‘s reading of Johannesburg. A first track and video from his upcoming album ‘Revolt’.
Street Party, Johannesburg
The series Security [by photographer Mikhael Subotzky] takes as its subject the guards employed for protection
Stereo Wizards
Electronic rap duo and “stereo wizards” Dirty Paraffin at the Faraday Muthi Market in downtown Johannesburg