Kameraad Mhambi

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.

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.

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 [...]

The last few days saw British politicians haggling in trying to put together a stable government in the midst of a European debt crisis. The unease is palpable. Commentators glance furtively at the markets for signs of disapproval. The pound has fallen in value and the prices of UK government debt has gone up. Hung [...]

…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, [...]

And we are good at assault. But South Africa is good at other things as well. Like having the biggest range of flowers, the largest man made hole. And arguably the worlds best rugby team. So why focus on the negative?

# Slabbert: “The apartheid regime had oppressive stability. We now have a vibrant civil society”. # Slabbert: “Crime is also a form of civil society participation, a negative one, but riddled with entrepreneurs.” # Slabbert: South Africans should “not to fall for an invented history”. Including the myth that Cuban forces had defeated the SADF [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

This weekend, due to the Football World Cup, history will be made when the Blue Bulls play the Crusaders in the Super 14 Rugby tournament in Soweto. Image via Wikipedia The Bulls, from Pretoria, traditionally are seen as the most Afrikaner of all South Africa Rugby Unions. The game will be an opportunity to smash [...]

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 [...]

My father (75) and his wife were attacked in their home last night. They are ok. Readers are leaders, originally uploaded by Wildebeast1. A minor scuffle eschewed, and my fathers wife, a formidable woman pushed at least one attacker (who was scrawny and young) across a table. My fathers wife said that just yesterday she [...]

Last week I was wondering bout the historic game of the Bulls in Orlando Soweto: “The Bulls, from Pretoria, traditionally are seen as the most Afrikaner of all South Africa Rugby Unions. The game will be an opportunity to smash or reinforce some stereo types.” And they were smashed. The Independent waxed lyrical: Forget fortress [...]

A friend Lizelle living in the Netherlands sent me this. A song called Zuid-Afrika about the Football World Cup. Moenie my glo as ek sê die Hollanders is sokkerbefok nie. Check maar gewoon hier. Not quite Die Antwoord. The Dutchies are one of the teams with a chance of lifting the cup.

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 [...]

It really tires me that one has to defend the racist morons of erstwhile Eugene Terreblance’s AWB. But we have a duty to be fair and even handed. We must be fair, because hate speech from whoever can never be justified. But besides the morality of it all – we must be fair else these [...]