David Goldblatt’s photo essay from 1972 is a key document of an era. Now he is the subject of a major show in London By EJI Staff, The Guardian The photographer David Goldblatt, the great chronicler of the apartheid era in South Africa, is to be celebrated by one of the first London art galleries […]
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24-Year-Old Black Woman Started Selling Fish Plates, Now Farms 500 Acres | We Buy Black
“White people owned the land and Black people only worked in their gardens or fields.” [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] That’s what Njabulo Mbokane once thought about agriculture but not anymore. Njabulo knew that her family couldn’t afford to send her to college so she had to find another way. She started out selling fish and chips on […]
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‘First time in history’: 50 percent women in South Africa cabinet | Al Jazeera
President Cyril Ramaphosa’s new cabinet comprises 50 percent women, a first for Africa’s second-biggest economy.
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The Man Who Stole South Africa | Foreign Policy
Cyril Ramaphosa has pledged a new dawn as president, but the secretary-general of his own party has built a web of corruption that thrives on darkness.
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Why white South Africans are turning to the ANC while black voters desert Mandela’s party | The Telegraph
Adrian Blomfield, The Telegraph Photo: Ramaphosa, with Mandela looking on (in mural form). Photo: Rajesh Jantilal/AFP, Featured Image [dropcap]It[/dropcap] may be the Rainbow Nation, but the political history of South Africa has long been writ in black and white. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] Quarter of a century after the end of apartheid, however, there is a twist […]
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Reverse Colonialism Ad Banned In South Africa | AFROPUNK
Zama Mdoda , AFROPUNK [dropcap]South[/dropcap] African restaurant Chicken Licken has a reputation for epic advertisements and their latest commercial is no different. Their latest offering follows an African prince called Big Mjohnana who leaves his village in 1650 to find adventure out in the world. Big John ends up in Holland where he stumbles across […]
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56,800 migrant dead and missing: ‘They are human beings’ | Associated Press
An Associated Press tally has documented at least 56,800 migrants dead or missing worldwide since 2014 — almost double the number found in the world’s only official attempt to try to count them, by the U.N.’s International Organization for Migration.
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Breaking ‘the curse’ of disabled children in South Africa – Al Jazeera
The government estimates as many as 600,000 children with disabilities are not getting an education.
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The Beauty and Complexity of the Black Experience Explored in Johannesburg – Okay Africa
This world has blackness somewhere in the space between racial classification and liberation.
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[VIDEO] The Violent Tuition Protests in South Africa
Students have demonstrated across the country for the last 10 days as fees are set to increase.
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