One billion rand is a big fat sum of money. No wonder some South Africans are seething at the news that the state has reportedly offered to pay the white land owners of Mala Mala Private Game Reserve, the Rattrays, this amount for an out-of-court settlement to a restitution claim brought by the dispossessed Mhlanganisweni […]
In 2008 or so, I registered for a Masters degree at Wits University with a rather interesting research component that I never got to finish. My thesis was to be an examination of the coverage of Zimbabwe in South Africa’s Sunday Times; the use of the prism of Zimbabwe to debate local issues. The idea […]
COMMENT The Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) is the first formidable post-apartheid ‘youth-driven’ formation to challenge the ANC’s hegemonic symbolism as the custodian of black people’s liberation. But unlike the Congress of the People (Cope) and Agang, none of the EFF’s front men drawing crowds of red berets have genuine pre-1994 struggle credentials to add legitimacy […]
In Buddhist astrology the spirit of the monkey is infused with wit, quick-thinking, strategic nous and a taste for making mischief. And 1968, the year of global rebellion in the Year of the Monkey, was marked by a much deeper sense of mischief than that performed by barricades and Molotov cocktails. It was also a […]
“I know I know I know… we’ve been playing a lot. But I’m sure there are still some of you who still got the itch?!? If so pull in to the pad for a free gig!” read the Facebook invite from agit-funk provocateurs, The Brother Moves On. For the last three years or so, this Johannesburg […]