Everyday for the past 6 months, the Durban Metro Police have been rounding up street children, often beating them, and throwing them in the back of vans. According to Tom Hewitt, founder and CEO of the street children’s organization Umthombo, children are being harassed, beaten and pepper sprayed in these ruthless round-up operations.
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Swept Away
Wednesday, March 10th, 2010 by Samora Chapman
Everyday for the past 6 months, the Durban Metro Police have been rounding up street children, often beating them, and throwing them in the back of vans. According to Tom Hewitt, founder and CEO of the street children’s organization Umthombo, children are being harassed, beaten and pepper sprayed in these ruthless round-up operations.
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Musica is a Museum
Tuesday, March 9th, 2010 by Brandon Edmonds, image by Black Koki at Love and Hate Studio
The Waterfront is a re-purposed commercial zone. It used to be exclusively about ships and shipping, and now you can shop, date and see movies there. (All made possible by a dubious Dubai consortium, of course). Anyway, commercial re-purposing of surpassed industrial sites is universal. San Francisco, New York, Singapore, London. Cape Town. Not Detroit. Poor Detroit.
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The Street World Cup
Friday, March 5th, 2010 by Andy Davis
One World Cup you may not have heard of is kicking off in Durban next week. It doesn’t feature any professional athletes, no big names, brand endorsements, bling bling and multi-million dollar salaries. In fact hardly any one even knows about this World Cup, primarily because the participants are all street kids.
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Return of the Censors
Thursday, March 4th, 2010 by Sean O'Toole
The Times has this week been reporting on the fall-out after Arts and Culture Minister Lulu Xingwana’s left a Johannesburg art exhibition in a huff because it included a series of photos of lesbian couples that she considered “pornographic”. The photographs are by Umlazi-born Zanele Muholi, a self-described “activist-photographer”
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Are the cool kids alright?
Monday, March 1st, 2010 by Samora Chapman
I spent the week slaving on a terrible corporate contract – writing the annual report for an unnamed municipal department. My days were spent in a ghastly 30 story concrete temple with the managers of different branches, trying with great difficulty to find out what they did during the financial year. I need a different body to use for corporate jobs
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Street Talk
Monday, March 1st, 2010 by Brandon Edmonds, image by Jason Bronkhorst
“I totally believe in acting international / while living locally” - HHP, ‘Make Monyeke’
How about that for a primer on behaving well come the FIFA behemoth in June? He lives it, does Jabba, Jabulani Tsambo, aka Double HP, linking up with rap royalty Nas while hatching rhymes in Tswana, Zulu and Sesotho. Act international, while living locally. It’s one of the strongest intuitions an entertainer has ever had about redeeming ourselves from the trinity of bad mental settings (xenophobia,
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I’ll Be Your Mirror
Thursday, February 25th, 2010 by Brandon Edmonds
You never look in a mirror alone. There’s always a chorus accompanying you – whether it’s the projected audience of your peers (the people you hang with, the girls or boys, or house pets, you want to attract) or the voice in your head (the one that praises your ass, your abs or boobs, if you’re well adjusted, building you up for a night out, or the one that cackles, telling you you’re fat and unworthy, if you’re not). You
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Elephantiasis Durbanitis
Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010 by Alex Sudheim, images by Kevin Goss-Ross
Even though the tropical parasitic disease Elephantiasis is characterised by a catastrophic thickening of the skin, the local version – known as Elephantiasis Durbanitis – afflicts only members of the ruling party and is defined by a startling reversal of the usual symptoms in that it causes an alarming thinning of the skin.
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