kameraad mhambi

There’s been a very interesting discussion on Sean’s Africa is a Country blog, on whether Die Antwoord is blackface. Now I was not even familar with the term. Wikipedia defines it as -

Blackface is theatrical makeup used in the United States and around the world, where the practice became popular during the 19th century, it [...]

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Kameraad Mhambi finds the moves by Professor Jonathan Jansen of the University of the Free State very very interesting. He has just decided to withdraw charges against the students involved in the Reitz racist video incident.

Varashni Pillay reports for the Mail & Guardian that:
We’ve seen the former University of the Free State (UFS) lads ousted, [...]

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I finally managed to see Neil Blomkamp’s District 9. I left the cinema feeling conflicted. On the one hand the ending was very Hollywood, cheesy and skop, skiet en donder cinema. Yet I felt there was something to the flick.

But I could not find the words to match my feelings.
And then I read Andries du [...]

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I have tried to avoid writing about John Hlophe and have succeeded for the most part in doing that.
It’s not that I thought he was not news worthy. It was just that the actions of this Judge really was so beyond the pale, and the support he had harnessed from many professionals in the black [...]

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President Zuma recently said a debate on race would take South Africa backwards. Although I agree with his intentions, I think South Africa desperately needs such a debate. And judging by this video most South Africans would agree.
Zuma has always been a non-racialist. And he is scared of what some are calling African chauvinism. [...]

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On the Africa is a Country blog of Sean Jacobs rarely fails with interesting stories of Africa from a US media perspective.
Today he posted one of -
“… A former New Jersey Medical School student, who described his ethnic background as “white, African-American,” is suing the school claiming that he had been racially discriminated against, according [...]

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Last night we witnessed history, as one of the most talented politicians of a generation – and a black man – was elected US president.

To understand the momentousness of this occasion one just have to have a cursory look a the history of racial strife in the USA. A history of bigotry that at [...]

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