An interview with Chimurenga founder Ntone Edjabe about his latest project
COMMENT The world is going through unprecedented challenges caused by a novel, rapidly transmitted coronavirus. Experts predict difficult times ahead with shrinking economies, loss of life and livelihoods and some structural changes — a new normal. Change is afoot in Africa as governments work tirelessly to identify their most vulnerable citizens for emergency disbursements. Banks, […]
The multifaceted and complex issues facing the continent can only be tackled effectively together
The continent’s interconnectedness is what will be its catalyst for recovery
Handling a global crisis is not that different from dealing with partnership break-downs
The newly established grant intended to bring informal economy workers into South Africa’s social security net during the lockdown has had a disastrous start
What was the City of Cape Town thinking when it decided to round up homeless people and put them in a camp?
The board of inquiry also found that it was Khosa and his brother-in-law Thabiso Muvhango who caused the altercation with the defence force members
The methods that work in Western nations rarely translate into African contexts
In this poetic commentary on Dathini Mzayiya’s video portrait of Miriam Makeba, Lindokuhle Nkosi inscribes moments of death, spiritual calling, sorrow and exile born by Makeba, during her singular and passionate life