kameraad mhambi

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Entries Tagged as 'art & culture'

Unhinged – a documentary about Johannesburg

June 4th, 2010 · No Comments · art & culture, documentary, the power of identity

I just spotted via a Tweet from @Sisiwami this new documentary coming out about one of my favourite cities in the world. And where I was born. And thank goodness its not made by an outsider.
Here’s the teaser. It’s called Unhinged and it looks interesting.

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The Smarteez are starting to get noticed

June 3rd, 2010 · No Comments · art & culture, the power of identity

A while ago Kameraad’s friends – The Wedding DJ’s – gigged in Soweto, and they met the Smarteez, a fashion crew from Soweto. Now the hipster mag from London Dazed & Confused have discovered them. I took an excerpt of the Dazed Video for you.

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The PAPA project and pics from our past

May 20th, 2010 · No Comments · art & culture

The PAPA project aims to preserve pics from South Africa’s past. Part of them are currently on show at Die Waterkant gallery in Cape Town. And Visi magazine has a few of them online.

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Lee-Ursus Afrikaans rapper from Brooklyn

May 17th, 2010 · 2 Comments · art & culture

My chommie in New York Nerina, has produced this cool short togther with Seans Jacobs of the Africa is a country blog (could not inbed it sorry) on Lee-Ursus, an Afrikaans NY rapper nogal.
He talks about why he raps in Afrikaans. It remind me on the Jack Parow Video on why he started to [...]

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Jack Parrow in Die Antwoord’s wake

May 11th, 2010 · No Comments · art & culture

Jack Parrow has skillz. Still I was surprised when Boing Boing featured him recently. He sings only in Afrikaans. Pretty amazing I have to say. Seems Die Antwoord has switched the overseas onto South African music.
Here the better version IMO of Jack’s new song Dans Dans Dans.

As a side note, Beeld featured an extensive interview [...]

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Harari is way cool

May 11th, 2010 · No Comments · art & culture

I only discovered this great South African band of yesteryear recently thanks to Donald from the Wedding DJ’s. The clip below was recorded at the legendary Kippies.

It was one of the biggest bands South Africa has produced, and I know little about them. What a shame. To think that at a time they were as [...]

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M.I.A. new violent video banned on Youtube

April 27th, 2010 · 5 Comments · art & culture, the power of identity

MIA’s video – Born Free – has been banned on Youtube because of nudity and violence.

British MIA – who now shares a producer with Die Antwoord – has come in for criticism in her support for the Tamil Tigers who are (were) fighting for a separate homeland for Tamils in Sri-Lanka. Her father is a [...]

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