 | The whole Ard Mathews anthem “outrage” is a wetsuit wee. Warm, tingling relief that will pass into the (media) ocean. Relief? Well I hate the guy. With a cleansing fire of loathing. Hot enough to forge steel, blow glass and brand cattle. Hate best imagined while listening to Wagner’s “Ride of the Valkyries”. I feel an actual physical twinge at the sight of him, just below my ashtray-heart. A near psychotic antipathy in place (trust me) way before ...read more |
Pity the Fool
Tuesday, August 30th, 2011 by Brandon Edmonds
These Boobs Are Made For Walking
Friday, August 26th, 2011 by Danni Diana
 | Every now and again, the opportunity presents itself for the well-meaning among us to come together under the banner of The Greater Good and do something really fucking stupid. Like those Heaven’s Gate cult people. Just everyday folk so concerned with saving our souls, that they thought it essential to go off into the desert and kill themselves en masse …instead of waiting around patiently with the Mormons. ...read more |
Street Trash
Monday, August 22nd, 2011 by Brandon Edmonds, images by Roger Young
 | So much going on. Where to begin? 2011 will be remembered for trashing streets (though the years to come will be so crisis-ridden and wracked with antagonism, will we look back at this one as the moment it all began?). Rage displays spilling over into branded consumer (what used to be known as public) space. We’ve seen a lot of this lately. ...read more |
The Aerosol Seven
Friday, August 19th, 2011 by Andy Davis, images by Samora Chapman
 | The scene is on fire. The story of the “031 Aerosol Seven” seems to have swept the nation, sparking heated debates on the morality of public art, both legal and illegal and scrutinizing the very nature of public space (with a little side spat on the role of media sensationalism and journalistic bias). The battle came to a climax yesterday morning with Ewok, the godfather of Durban hip hop, taking on police spokesperson Eugene Msomi on East Coast ...read more |
Writing on the Wall
Tuesday, August 16th, 2011 by Samora Chapman, images by Karen Logan
 | It was an icy Sunday morning. A handful of graffiti writers gathered to paint what everyone thought was a legal wall on Sydney Road, downtown Durban. The event had been organised weeks earlier and was openly publicized on various social networks. It wasn’t an ordinary graffiti jam. They were gathered to paint the name of a 17 year old kid, a comrade artist, Wesley Fischer aka Eiy5, who was hit by a steaming 18 wheeler truck and killed nearly five ...read more |
Seek the White Man
Monday, August 15th, 2011 by Siyabonga Andre Dennis, illustration by Nolan Dennis
 | I hate the term coloured, what the fuck does it mean? In my two decades on this planet I’ve come to realise that it refers to anyone whose yellow is more caramel than butter. Everyone thinks of Cape Town, of missing teeth and gangsters with odd fixations with numbers and sodomy. What identity can you prescribe? I’m not coloured ...read more |
Cruel Britannia
Wednesday, August 10th, 2011 by Sean Legassick
 | Last Saturday, in the north London suburb of Tottenham, a demonstration turned into a riot. The protest was sparked by the killing, by the police, of a young black man travelling in the back of a minicab. Yes, he had a gun, but forensics show he never fired a shot. Since then, the riots have spread across London to Birmingham, Manchester and other parts of the UK. They are not just a response to this one event. Instead they represent ...read more |
Burn Swag Burn
Thursday, August 4th, 2011 by Lindokuhle Nkosi, illustration Trevor Paul
 | Two young boys in school uniform tentatively approach the car. Voices settling into manhood, faces broken out in swollen signs of puberty, they pass a cigarette between the two of them. “We’ll be performing in the park,” they inform me. “We are waiting for people to get changed and then we can begin. They shouldn’t be long, boma-ten minutes or so.” Their English is more telling than the words that they speak. ...read more |
Wall of Whiteness
Tuesday, August 2nd, 2011 by Andy Davis
 | In modern day Mzanzia, entrepreneurialism is the dominant ideology. Our developmental masterplan. The capitalist mantra to lift ourselves out of poverty by our bootstraps, not waiting for handouts or government interventions. To this end, “promoting entrepreneurialism” has become something of a buzzword at the big financial institutions and has recently spawned an Entrepreneur’s Guide over at Old Mutual, pity then that the big green machine couldn’t find more than two black entrepreneurs to profile. Way to represent the zeitgeist of ...read more |
Lesotho Fu Man Chu
Monday, August 1st, 2011 by Montle Moorosi, illustration Alastair Laird
 | To every birth its blood… or something like that, that’s what the first South African black art fag said. When people die others are born. It doesn’t get more simple, loving and awful as that. “Hey, why doesn’t Lesotho just become a part of South Africa? Wouldnt it be easier for Sotho people then?” I ask my cousin. “Uhm… because we’re a fucking country, that’s why! You cant just erase a country.” And with that, the King of the Yellow ...read more |
