Marikana and the end of South African exceptionalism
The Marikana mine killings in August 2012 showed that South Africa's problems are no longer specific to the apartheid legacy, but about more global issues of poverty and inequality.
Legacies of Marikana
The Spirit of Marikana
The mineworkers were active agents who sought to control their own destinies in the midst of plutocratic mine-owners and their “pocket trade union’s.”
Marikana and the rational destiny of market fundamentalism
The lesson of Marikana: neoliberalism has undergone a process of democracy-proofing that reached its zenith in South Africa
No country for widows
The astonishing lengths to which the South African state went to demean and diminish Marikana miners, dead and living, and their loved ones.
Stirring the Spirits of the Dead Miners of Marikana
When the widows of Marikana tried to wake up their husbands from their graves by yelling at them.
The winners and losers of the platinum strike in South Africa
Whether the union that organized the strike will unify and rally workers outside of the ruling alliance is the first question we should ask.
Live from Grahamstown, South Africa
The National Arts Festival, that celebrated its 40th anniversary in 2014, is the second biggest arts festivals in the world.
In Front of Our Very Own Eyes
"Miners Shot Down," by director Rehad Desai, is a haunting and emotional documentary of the Marikana massacre in August 2012.
The clamor for a ‘credible opposition’ in South Africa?
William Gumede, who wrote a book about the ANC, makes a strange and careless argument--without recourse to evidence--about the ruling party's fortunes.
We send our Tokoloshe to battle with those trying to make us forget the atrocities of Marikana
The Tokoloshe emerges from its secret lair. Like a thief in the night, it creates a
South Africa is a Continent
Jacob Zuma says out loud what most South Africans believe about themselves: South Africa isn’t in Africa. It’s somewhere else. Somewhere better.
Marikana Memorial
This time last year, platinum workers (all black) at a mine in South Africa’s North West
The New York Times “debates” South Africa’s future
I have no idea why I was thrilled to see a debate on the chief maladies
Popstars, Politicians and Personhood: A Conversation with Masello Motana
South African actress/singer/writer Masello Motana has had a career in the entertainment business that many would
Counting bodies and column inches
The Pistorius' murder trial is a good time to review how New York Times reported on another South African killing: Marikana.
The Book of Marikana
Rewriting history from below in South Africa by utilizing the voices of workers and their survivors themselves.
The Extreme Makeover of Patri$e Mot$epe
Motsepe was named South Africa’s first black dollar billionaire by Forbes Magazine.
Here’s what some South African artists make of the country’s politics
To get the pulse of a country journalists usually go for political elites or the “man
Where was the South African media at Marikana?
British TV news airs footage refuting South African police claims about murdered Marikana miners.
Why the rhino is Newsmaker of the Year in South Africa
The divorce between social reality of post-apartheid South African and White South Africa.