Surfer dude
Surfing as leisure and a sport has historically been associated with whites in South Africa, though
Race
Benetton Politics
The made-upness and the shallowness of the Democratic Alliance of South Africa's vision of a non-racial future.
Benetton Politics
South Africa’s Democratic Alliance, usually very slick and media savvy, have really outdone themselves with a
Afrikaner Bloods
Factual media reporting on how South African relationships and attitudes, especially between blacks and whites, evolve are hard to come by.
Trevor Noah’s “whole African American thing”
Throwback: What happened when Trevor Noah made his debut on American network TV.
‘Fictional’ Cape Town
How Cape Town is used by advertising firms as a cheaper, stand-in location for Euro-American locations.
The fear-riddled DNA
A new ad for how DNA works feeds into a fear-riddled white South African state of mind about black crime and blacks-as-a-class as criminals.
Soccer movies about poor, brown people
African football is often depicted with gloom, while European football is either reduced to hooliganism or celebrated through nostalgic 'greatest hits' and childhood wonder on film.
The people of Blikkiesdorp
Photographer Lizane Louw chronicles the people of Blikkiesdorp, a temporary relocation camp on Cape Town's Cape Flats.
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.
Street Party, Johannesburg
The series Security [by photographer Mikhael Subotzky] takes as its subject the guards employed for protection
'Insurrection'
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQNGoqdQnRk&w=500&h=301&rel=0] Single released April 11th, which is the 30th anniversary of the Brixton riots that levelled
Music Break
I love this track, “It Would Be,” by Cape Town’s Alleycat (government name: Enslin Grootboom) featuring fellow
The Race Card
Bridging the Western art world and the West African film industry, London-based artist Doug Fishbone cast
White People Eat Fried Chicken
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nH_WxJVxHcw&w=500&h=307&rel=0] Allison Swank Just as Nelson Mandela went underground as the Black Pimpernel in 1961 to
Who Are We?
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zoqsw3n8D6g&w=500&h=307&rel=0] My man Gary Younge, New York-based feature writer and columnist for The Guardian, has a
Who Cares?*
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3uvUZbUwOiA&w=500&h=307&rel=0] Shocker. Children don’t always look like their parents. (Unfortunately not everyone got the memo that
Skin Deep Politics
The question as to whether a coloured can become leader of South Africa's ruling party and even, more remotely, president of the country.
G'day Mate
“The thing that overwhelms most is the level of professionalism of native Africans in knowing how
Africa on Film: Black Diamonds
Black Diamonds is a recently released short documentary by Dutch filmmaker, Saska Vredeveld (view the film