Opinion: Fiction, representation and 'Django'
- 23 Jan 2013 11:22 - Mpho Moshe Matheolane
- Does "Django Unchained" say anything about Hollywood with regard to its handling of sensitive subject matter like slavery?
Wake up and smell the coffee, or find the technoserf dead
- 21 Oct 2011 00:00 - Lucy Siegle
- Are you sitting on a sofa that has helped destroy the rainforest? Wearing jeans that caused silicosis in those producing them? You may well be.
Slaves -- going cheap!
- 07 Oct 2011 00:00 - Rageh Omar
- Slavery is not invisible and it is happening everywhere so why, and how, does it persist? A new documentary takes a closer look.
Four due in British court on slavery charges
- 13 Sep 2011 07:58 - Staff Reporter
- Four men have been charged with slavery offences after British police freed 24 men from a travellers' caravan site in England.
Slavery: That peculiar institution
- 06 Sep 2011 11:13 - Lisa Van Wyk
- The recent arrest of anti-slavery protesters in Mauritania has highlighted the fact that slavery is not a relic of the past.
Mauritanian activist jailed after anti-slavery protest
- 22 Aug 2011 16:09 - Staff Reporter
- A Mauritanian court has sentenced an anti-slavery activist to three months in prison, while eight others accused of "rebellion" were acquitted.
'Slave' workers demand their due
- 22 Nov 2010 09:33 - Henrik Lomholt Rasmussen
- The only place in the world where the East German flag still flies is on the streets of Maputo.
Slaves between a rock and hard place
- 28 May 2010 12:02 - Silke Colquoun
- In a quiet moment it's not hard to imagine the despair of slaves who once laboured at Robben Island.
Woman wins slavery case against Niger
- 27 Oct 2008 13:53 - Abdoulaye Massalatchi
- A West African court of justice convicted the state of Niger on Monday for failing to protect a 12-year-old girl from being sold into slavery.
Spike Lee: 'We're not on a plantation, Clint'
- 09 Jun 2008 11:32 - Staff Reporter
- The acrimonious feud between two of Hollywood's best-known film directors reached a new level of name-calling and accusation at the weekend as Spike Lee invoked America's bitter legacy of slavery in response to Clint Eastwood's comments to the Guardian on Friday.
