 | In light of a recent call for Caucasians to boycott Woolworths, me and my man Sheldon Wins (aka My Best White Friend) thought we’d put together a little pocket guide for shopping in the inner city. The aim is to help our pale-faced bredren navigate the labyrinth that is the Poison City CBD… ‘cos there aint no air-con in the ghetto motherfuckers. In fact it’s gonna be hot as hell and full of Africa flavour. With that we welcome you ...read more |
Whitey’s Guide to the Inner City
Thursday, November 1st, 2012 by Samora Chapman and Sheldon Wins
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Jacking Locks
Monday, October 29th, 2012 by Nolan Stevens
 | Hair, and in particularly black hair has had a tumultuous history in this country; from the pencil tests of the not-so-good ol’ days, to the more recent debates surrounding weaves and extensions. The issue behind our hair hang ups seems to have more to do with a sense of self than aesthetic appeal. As Bonnie Henna confessed in a recent TV interview about her experience of castings in the states: “I think that my chances were affected by not having ...read more |
Gangsta Hieroglyphs
Friday, October 26th, 2012 by Ang Lloyd
 | In 2008 UK-based photographer Araminta da Clermont came to South Africa. Not to take photos, but to detox. She’d been a heroin addict for eight years, and she felt that the bottom of Africa would be a good place to sort her shit out. During her recovery, she heard about prisoners with mysterious tattoos and an association with numbers. These prisoners were hardened criminals: the personification of darkness. Naturally, an intense curiosity developed. ...read more |
Branding the Daisies
Friday, October 12th, 2012 by Bartlett
 | OK, so the way we’re gonna play this is to treat this review like a roast. Rocking the Daisies (RTD) is getting roasted because they’re the ones who’ve actually done something by pulling off a big-ass music festival and making a name for themselves in the process. Industry respect and all that. Because we’re ‘the media’ and have nothing much else to do than jack off to Sorkin’s didactic dialogue in The Newsroom, we get to do the roasting. We’re ...read more |
Praca de Touros
Tuesday, October 9th, 2012 by pop skiet
 | With dedicated intent I asked around where Maputo’s old bullring was, nobody knew. Eventually I was directed to the Shopright Checkers, on the East side of the city. The ring stood unceremoniously, forgotten, across the street, surrounded by an array of rackety fruit and veg stalls and make-shift car garages. As I approached the main gate, small hands around a rusty lock and big brown eyes peering, greeted me. ...read more |
Power to the People
Monday, September 24th, 2012 by Mahala High Five Brigade
 | Where were you when news of the tsunami hit Japan in 2011? How about when Michael Jackson died? Probably online, according to many experts who claim that social media has become the main media source for hundreds of millions of people. Not just in the U.S., either; Facebook alone has more than 900 million users spread across the globe as of 2012. Other social media giants like Twitter have facilitated revolution against unjust leaders and warned people of impending natural ...read more |
Enemies of the Internet
Tuesday, September 18th, 2012 by Mahala High Five Brigade
 | As you know, the internet is basically a global network of interconnected computers consisting of millions of private, public, academic, business, and government networks, of local to global scope, that are linked by a broad array of electronic, wireless and optical networking technologies. (Thank you Wikipedia). If there is one technology that is central to overcoming our problems as a species, the internet is it. In this era of Wikileaks and social media revolutions, governments around the world are literally ...read more |
Money Eyes
Tuesday, September 18th, 2012 by Lisa Parnell
 | In a time of iPhones and Instagram, ‘all the world’s a studio, and all the men and women merely photographers’ to corrupt the original Shakespeare. These days anyone can shoot and share their view and experience with the world, the sheer volume of images being uploaded onto the internet runs the whole gamut from the exquisite to the mundane. Against this backdrop a South African woman, Sibulele Ngomane, has co-created a potentially powerful app that allows people to monetize their ...read more |
Braving Grey Street
Friday, September 7th, 2012 by Samora Chapman
 | Grey Street is what happened when Bombay made love to the Zulu Nation. I recently went down there to try cleanse my metamorphic angst. I have no home and no money, so I may as well go and wonder the streets aimlessly; the only whitey in sight tryna snuggle with my shadow. All the cool kids in Poison City seem to be shovelling cocaine into their brains in the great quest for self worth. Fuck that. I’m going in search ...read more |
When Bad People happen to Good Drugs
Monday, September 3rd, 2012 by Ray van Wyk, illustration by Alastair Laird
 | Psychedelic trip descriptions are usually so far removed that it’s almost impossible to relate, especially if you as the listener don’t have experience with the same; forcing people to become typically boring, contrived or over-enthusiastic when going on at length about some cat turning into millions of cats or red vortexes sucking them through space and time into ‘like other dimensions man’. However, once in a while, a psychedelic comes along with real, quantifiable benefits for the individual. ...read more |
