 | On Nugget Street, opposite the nondescript piece of downtown Johannesburg roadside where groundbreaking musician Gito Baloi was gunned down, in April 2004, a new semi-legal artwork has sprung up to memorialise the spot and celebrate the memory of the Tananas front man. Breeze Yoko is, in his own words, “an artist of different kinds” ...read more |
Intervention on Nugget
Thursday, September 22nd, 2011 by Andy Davis
The Minister’s MacGuffin
Tuesday, September 20th, 2011 by Brandon Edmonds
 | The last time a South African official yelled “diplomatic immunity!” they were shot in the head by Mel Gibson. In 1989’s Lethal Weapon 2. Now life isn’t as murderously succinct as a summer blockbuster – except when it is, as it was ten years ago, when zealots with box cutters got stuck between kaboom and New York city. The Minister of International Relations & Co-operation, Maite Nkoana-Mashabane, isn’t about to be shot in the head for yelling diplomatic immunity ...read more |
Online Gaming vs. The American Health System
Thursday, September 15th, 2011 by Max Barashenkov, illustration by Nolan Dennis
 | Somebody is emailing me bullets, a shower of woodchips and that uncomfortable whistling above the head. I hit the dirt, crawl and try spot the bastard as my guys are dropping like flies around me. There he is, the fucking Bush Wookie, smug in his ghillie suit, sniping from on top of a bridge. The brain kicks into overdrive, reflexes sharpen, instincts take over – flank left, from rock to rock, watch another one of your fools run straight ahead ...read more |
Dead Air
Tuesday, September 13th, 2011 by Brandon Edmonds
 | You’re away on a team-building weekend, and you’ve been drinking. You drink a lot. You even tweet about drinking. This is a calling card in your game. It’s a badge of belonging. It affirms your place in the culture. A masculine sports culture and fan culture and broadcast media culture underpinned by drinking. Getting fucked up is okay. Getting wasted is cheaper than therapy. You’ve even made this joke before. You’re a good talker. ...read more |
“Proud to be labelled Racist”
Thursday, September 8th, 2011 by Sean O’Toole
 | Seven years ago, the Druid of Kensington, a big bearded man with unkempt hair, kindly smile and encyclopaedic knowledge of language, exhibited his stuff – stones, bread rolls, old tools, 96 full bibles, 18 maps, two “manipulated” puzzles – at a Parkwood gallery. His mood at the time was unsettled and confused, but not immune to surprise, possibly even delight. Which is why he entitled his exhibition of stuff Nonplussed. ...read more |
On Point
Monday, September 5th, 2011 by Carlos Amato
 | Until he opens his mouth, Julius Malema’s importance in South African politics makes no sense. How can it be that such an unimpressive man wields such impressive power over his constituency? He is treacherous, flabby, cynical, unprepossessing, vain and venal. Most South Africans recognise him as a bozo. But this bozo can talk the hind leg off a liberation movement. ...read more |
21st Century Sangoma
Monday, September 5th, 2011 by Lindokuhle Nkosi, illustration by Chip
 | Dineo’s small arms are heavy with a multitude of red and white beads wound tightly around her wrists. Above them, ispandla made of goat’s hide. She pulls a Jenni Button jacket over her petite frame and heads to the Golf Gti parked in the basement of the Upper East Side Hotel. Onlookers, passer-bys and acquaintances who share the odd polite conversation would never know that she is a Sangoma. ...read more |
Last Sunday
Sunday, September 4th, 2011 , images by pop skiet
 | Last Sunday, Melville Koppies, Johannesburg, 13h29 ...read more |
An Immigrant City
Wednesday, August 31st, 2011 by Sipho Hlongwane, illustration by Trevor Paul
 | I don’t like clean cities. There is just something incredibly wrong with them. As if they weren’t made for human beings at all – that’s it. It’s the inhumanity of it that gets to me, the sterility, like God wiped it clean with his heavenly cotton swabs. Washington DC is the worst offender. There is nary a beggar to be seen in any direction. Nothing out of place and everyone behaving themselves. ...read more |
The Great DAQA
Tuesday, August 30th, 2011 by Lindokuhle Nkosi
 | “I have also learnt that Twitter’s 140-character limit is more conducive to repeating (Paris) Hilton’s hallucinations than debating complex policy issues.” – Helen Zille. On the 14th of August, the Sunday Times ran a review article on a Twitter debate that occurred between renowned South African singer, Simphiwe Dana, and the head of the DA, Helen Zille. In the piece, Zille laments the 140-character limit of the social media platform, and yet a few weeks later, the DA holds an ...read more |
