The Power of Imagery: The Death of Hector Pieterson
Hector Pieterson in the arms of Mbuyisa Nkita Makhubu, his sister, Antoinette Musi, running alongside. Photo by Sam Nzima, 1976. My good friend Sameer at WITNESS is leading an online conversation in commemoration of today’s 60th anniversary of the Universal...
Nama Land Sovereignty in the Northern Cape Province
For thousands and thousands of years the Nama people of Southern Africa maintained a nomadic pastoral way of life, tending their flocks of goats and sheep, gathering firewood, and collecting wild honey. Driving along the dirt roads surrounding Richtersveld National...
SA bloggers are thriving in cyberspace. They just aren't nearly diverse enough.
An article in this morning’s Times, cleverly positioned next to a marketing blurb about an increase in traffic to their website, says that South African bloggers are thriving in cyberspace. A new study released this week by World Wide Worx claims that 4.5...
!Khwa ttu: Sustainable Cultural Preservation
The surprise highlight of this trip for me so far hasn’t been a helicopter flight, luxury resort, or journey down three and half kilometers to the world’s deepest mine. No, what has impressed me the most was a lunch-time visit to !Khwa ttu, a culture and...
South Africa's Joule Electric Car
Optimal Energy CEO Kobus Meiring Presenting the Joule Electric Car Who Killed the Electric Car? is a 2006 documentary which shows the roles of American automobile manufacturers, the oil industry, and the US government in stopping production of electric cars in the US,...Latest Photos
