 | The question of restitution and the redistribution of land in Southern Africa is emotive and divisive. It’s an issue that spawns online battles and verbal skirmishes from parliamentary benches to barstools, with opposing factions often brandishing abstraction and half remembered stories. The problem with these stories is that while they are often lost in a direct narrative sense, they are still threaded into the genetic memory of many people. This is in part what makes the land debate so fractious, ...read more |
The Last Stand of a South African Hero
Friday, October 14th, 2011 by Gary Mathews
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Mozambique: A Sporting Chance
Wednesday, September 28th, 2011 by Dave Durbach
 | Part 3 Few believed that Mozambique could pull off hosting the continent’s biggest sporting showpiece in the short space of just two years. The country was awarded the All Africa Games in April 2009 after original host Zambia withdrew, citing the international recession. Without any prompting, the Mozambicans stepped up. In less than a year, construction was well underway on an athletes’ village to house more than 6000 participants and officials, an Olympic-sized swimming pool, a 45 000 seater stadium, ...read more |
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Mozambique: Ocupações Temporárias
Tuesday, September 27th, 2011 by Dave Durbach
 | Part 2 Beyond Boetjan and the South African connection, occupation of one form or another has always been part of the collective psyche of Mozambique. Attempts to explore this, however, are far more recent. A new mixed media exhibition, Ocupações Temporárias (temporary occupations), sees five young Mozambican artists attempt to do just that. ...read more |
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No More Butts
Monday, September 26th, 2011 by Luke de Kock
 | It’s come back again. That undeniable cough in the morning is getting worse. The phlegm you spit into the sink is just the tip of the iceberg. There’s a whole twisted web of that yellow ooze crudely laminating your alveoli mate, and it’s there to stay. That is, unless you stop. Yeah come on, fuck it. Stop now, throw out your box of reds, clean the ashtray and stick a damn candle in it. I mean, how hard could it ...read more |
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Mozambique: Moving On Up
Saturday, September 24th, 2011 by Dave Durbach
 | Part I: Boetjan Gaan Border Toe When the Portuguese left Mozambique (and Angola) en masse and overnight in the late 1970s, I wonder if they knew that a new breed of colonizers would soon spring up to take their place . . . Boetjan runs a campsite on the island of Inhaca, 30km from Maputo. Apartheid may have come and gone in South Africa, but here young Boetjan remains baas of his own personal fiefdom ...read more |
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In Praise of Pop-Ups
Friday, September 23rd, 2011 by Rob Scher, images by Adam Kent Wiest
 | The dancefloor is a fraction smaller than Fiction’s, equally packed. I need air. I need a drink. Escaping is the problem. I feel like Pacman navigating through the mess of bodies, smoke and lasers – all framed by a dark backdrop of refuse bags lining the walls. The DJ seems at home, and so he should, this is his actual home, but for all intents and purposes I’m in a dingy club. ...read more |
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Lunch In Orania
Thursday, September 22nd, 2011 by Max Barashenkov, images by Luke Daniel
 | “Watdoenjy?!” Rina Wiid snarls from behind the wheel of her BMW, “Geen fotos van my nie!” We freeze on the backseat, me mid-question, Ricochet Daniel with the camera in his paws. She proceeds, in rabid and venomous Afrikaans, to tell us that all photographic material acquired at the Doornbult concentration camp must be cleared with her before publication. Later, she will make us sign forms, swear fealty to the old South African flag and take a picture of us, for ...read more |
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Mountains are not Stadiums
Friday, September 16th, 2011 by Andy Davis
 | Monde Sitole is one of those guys that makes you feel like an under-achiever. The 21 year Khayelitsha resident is a professional adventurer with an impressive list of achievements under his belt already. At the age of 17 he got a taste for adventure sailing a tall ship across the Atlantic. Since then he’s set his sights on climbing 7 of the world’s scariest mountains. He summited Kilimanjaro in November last year and Mount Elbrus in Russia, just last month. ...read more |
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Suicide Saturday
Saturday, September 10th, 2011 by Mark Sinclair, images by Iain Cluett
 | We had dubbed it Suicide Saturday but I woke up that morning feeling like death. The night before had been drink and dance at Arcade Empire. I felt broken. But it was early yet and I knew that if I could locate some water and marijuana I’d be just about ready for a day of recovery leading into a night of mayhem. ...read more |
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Reggae without a Cause
Friday, September 2nd, 2011 by Matthew Christensen, images by Craig Bernard
 | Everyone has a friend who – every now and then – ends up pounding the drinks before stumbling around, hitting on strangers, dribbling on the table and eventually vomiting on herself before you shove her in a cab and send her home. During Notting Hill Carnival, London is a bit like that friend. ...read more |
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