Beauty in a Time of Conflict
This series of articles on Marlon Brando has been some of the easiest writing I’ve ever done. The words have just tumbled out. But this third instalment was a difficult piece to write. Finding the energy and inspiration to write amid the horror unfolding in Gaza has not been easy. Writing about an actor […]
Oscar Pistorius: Judgment Day
As we await the verdict in the Oscar Pistorius trial, Percy Mabandu looks at the Blade Runner’s primal features and takes a stab at what they say about us all In a world that has lost touch with visceral or primordial reality, Oscar Pistorius has come to represent both a return to all things primal […]
Stories from the Strip: Episode 9
“heavy bombing around our house right now 5 houses have been destroyed it’s from artillery the dust suffocated us” This is the message Ahmed Balousha, a Palestinian living in Gaza, sent me on Facebook last Monday. It was the eve of what was to become the most gruesome night in the war […]
Gaza and the Tasks of Journalism
Jane Duncan In the past few weeks, the South African media has been dominated by the unfolding catastrophe in Gaza and South Africans have had to rely largely on foreign coverage of this issue to understand it. The mainstream US media is still parroting the Israeli line that the country is acting in […]