kameraad mhambi

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 sharply. In [...]

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…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 [...]

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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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