Kameraad Mhambi

Our default position should be that truth and openness is good for societies. Only in very special circumstances should the public be denied information. This is why, in the past, when newspapers received these kinds of leaks that Wikileaks are now recieving, more often than not they published them. And democratic governments in the West [...]

The long awaited collaboration by Die Antwoord with Diplo is out. The song is very good, although personally I prefer Ninja’s own production over Diplo’s. As for the content. There’s more phalluses than you can shake a stick at. The Xhosa rapping in the middle will cause quite a stir. None more so for the [...]

Beebop, who often comments on this blog has regularly put the question to me, why don’t whities stop whining and do something positive? That is a very good question. Last Sunday Esebius Mackaiser took on this theme, after a debate between Antjie Krog and Rian Malan. Their respective takes on the phenomenology of whiteness differ [...]

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.

If I had a dollar for every person that came to this blog every day off the back of the search “the meaning of Wat Kyk Jy” I could probably buy a juicy burger in my favourite burger bar every night. Anyway, here is DIE ANTWOORD: Wat kyk Jy is Afrikaans and literally translates to [...]

First, today my blog sent you an email test by mistake. Apologies for that. Update on Meerkat We have made a more complete set of wireframes for the Meerkat project. If you know any developers that would like to work on a corruption reporting tool, point them our way.

So hardly a week went by after I did my interview with Dan Roodt and I’ve changed my mind. I’ve been watching Mr. Roodt on Facebook. I’ve been watching what he writes and the comments he receives from others. Not only is he a suurgat (sourpuss), he is venynig (he enjoys causing pain), and he [...]

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.

What’s up with Die Antwoord? Are they authentic? And more specifically. Do they rip off other people’s work? We are all familiar with the first set of anti-Antwoord complaints. That they were disparaging Afrikaner culture. That they were appropriating and exploiting coloured culture. Snot, I said. They were a wonderful fusion of the two. So [...]

A few weeks ago Murray Hunter emailed me. How hard would it be to set up a tool to combat corruption he asked. Well I said, lets meet. It is something I have been thinking about for some time. Over a few beers we discussed the issue with Adriaan Pelzer. I was very much in [...]

Rian Malan, South Africa’s serial traitor of the heart put it eloquently in the Telegraph this week: “South Africa has an extraordinary ability to make fools of those who attempt to predict its future. As I coasted into the airport’s shiny new parking lot, I realised that I’d shot myself in the foot yet again. [...]

…three things happen that puts things in perspective and makes you think its not all that bad in South Africa. Firstly and most trivially, there a huge rucus in New Zealand because Andy Hadden claimed that the Canturbury Crusaders have a maximum qouta of non-white players or rather ‘darkies’, that they allow in their squad, [...]

My dad passed away last month. Three years ago I took him to watch the quarter finals of the rugby world cup in France. This is a little tribute to him. Interestingly enough, my dad was born during the great depression, and died during the current crisis. He was by no means a perfect man. [...]

In the last two days we’ve been treated to such ill informed, bad and reductionist journalism about the Dutch and their relationship to Afrikaners and culpability for colonialism and apartheid, that I just had to quickly write this blog post. So what exactly is the relationship? Fact 1 The Dutch state, the Netherlands, never decided [...]

This week I saw on Twitter that Dan Roodt was visiting London. I tweeted it and was Retweeted by Murray Hunter: RT @wildebees SA right organising, Dan Roodt now in London after Belgian visit.

This week both the UK Guardian (Video) and SA Mail & Guardian reported on claims of threats of xenophobic violence – directed at mostly African foreigners – that would supposedly start when the Football World Cup finishes. Tara Polzer, a researcher in Wits University’s forced-migration studies programme, said that she has seen little evidence of [...]