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/ 18 January 2011
Call me "ultra-critical" if you will, but I couldn’t help wincing at an extract from a Cosatu birthday card to the ANC.
Should non-blacks ride separate buses, and other relevant questions for idiots, writes Chris Roper.
It’s a question you’ve probably often asked yourself, while idly travelling through foreign climes: should I get myself a nice swastika tattoo?
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/ 14 December 2010
Weirdly enough, the genesis of this column was when I called Steve Hofmeyr a moron on Twitter.
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/ 8 December 2010
The <i>M&G’s</i> <b>Chris Roper</b> explores African despots and the Red Bull Soundclash. Yes, they do go together.
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/ 3 December 2010
Never has SA hip-hop sounded more resolutely middle class, which is ironic given Die Antwoord’s attempts to pitch themselves as lower-class trash.
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/ 2 December 2010
Coloured anal-rapists and scared white boys — a powerful advertisement causes <b>Chris Roper</b> to despair at the use of tired racial clichés.
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/ 30 November 2010
Oh, the irony. Media organisations arguing against access to information.
In its third year of existence, the annual Bookmarks Awards dispenses praise and Pixels to the best of the online industry.
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/ 18 November 2010
This is a fabulous debut, both in the strict sense of resembling a fable and the colloquial sense of an exclamation of joyful approbation.