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"How fortunate are the dead" -- Dennis Brutus dead at 85

Burhanistan — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 07:12:52 -0800

Noted anti-apartheid activist and poet Dennis Brutus has died. Brutus was imprisoned in South Africa along with Mandela for his outspoken criticism of the apartheid regime, and later continued to be critical of the ANC. One of his last poems was about the then upcoming UN climate summit in Copenhagen.

District 9 Now Playing in South Africa

smrtsch — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 15:01:00 -0800

District 9 has generated some discussion here and else where. But, what do South African viewers of the film think about it?.

Cat food.

crossoverman — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 03:26:06 -0800

Welcome to District 9. Director Neill Blomkamp turns his sci-fi short "Alive in Joburg" into a full-length feature film - examining xenophobia in an allegory of Apartheid, set in a slum recalling District 6 of Cape Town in South Africa.

Drawing, erasing, redrawing

louche mustachio — Wed, 06 May 2009 08:22:52 -0800

William Kentridge creates animation by working into charcoal drawings; drawing, erasing, redrawing, layering, to create stories that frequently link the intensely intimate with the politics of his native South Africa. Johannesburgh -1989 introduces characters that recur through many of his films. Monument -1990 Mine -1991 Sobriety, Obesity, and Growing Old -1991 Felix in Exile-1994 History of the Main Complaint - 1996 Weighing...and Wanting -1997 Automatic Writing Magic Flute, Part 1 Magic Flute, Part 2 Magic Flute, Part 3 What Will Come-2007 On his place in the art world On a world "fixed in time"

"The anti-apartheid movement's cricket team"

rodgerd — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 14:33:00 -0800

"Far more is known about...the activities of the secret service in Moscow...than what the England selectors said and did that night": Basil D'Oliveira was a Coloured South African all-round cricketer who moved to the UK to avoid the colour bar that prevented him representing South Africa; representing England with considerable credit, he created a crises for English and South African cricket, with Nazi sympathiser and South African Prime Minister Vorster ordering the British not to select him to tour South Africa. Initially the MCC refused to select him; while they claimed this was due to a drop in form; many in the press flayed this decision, seeing it as a capitulation by the MCC, and hence the British Establishment, to South Africa's apartheid regime, in spite of the British government's official policy that South Africa must not dictate selections. The ban on the MCC team helped to bring about the Gleneagles Agreement, isolating the sports-mad white South Africans from international sport (with a notable exception).

Apartheid: then and now

madamjujujive — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 18:24:14 -0800

Then and Now presents works from 8 South African documentary photographers - each contributes 10 photos taken during apartheid and 10 made since the democratic elections of 1994. (On display at Duke University through July 27.) More about the project Prior mefi thread: South African Photography during the Era of Apartheid More works by the eight featured photographers: David Goldblatt Guy Tillim Paul Weinberg Eric Miller Graeme Williams Gisele Wulfsohn Cedric Nunn George Hallet

Truth, reconciliation and 100 voices

jbickers — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 17:26:17 -0800

"REwind: A Cantata for Voice, Tape and Testimony" debuts tomorrow night in New York. South African composer Philip Miller listened to hundreds of hours of audio cassettes from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission hearings - the testimonies of torture victims, as well as their torturers who were given pardon in exchange for their testimony - and composed music around the samples he selected. It premiered in Capetown in late 2006; utterly haunting excerpts available here and here.

A Man Apartheid

Mr.Encyclopedia — Sun, 22 Apr 2007 19:15:44 -0800

Carlos Latuff is a political cartoonist from Brazil whose work can be described as pro-Palestine , anti-America and uh, anti-McDonalds?. He has given his side of the story, but his latest images on DeviantArt take a different direction in his anti-American artwork.

There is talk once again of a one-state bi-national solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

y2karl — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 22:59:58 -0800

The idea of a single, bi-national state is not new. Its appeal lies in its attempt to provide an equitable and inclusive solution to the struggle of two peoples for the same piece of land. It was first suggested in the 1920s by Zionist leftwing intellectuals led by philosopher Martin Buber, Judah Magnes... and Haïm Kalvarisky... Underlying their Zionism was a quest for a Jewish renaissance, both cultural and spiritual, with a determination to avoid injustice in its achievement. It was essential to found a new nation, although not necessarily a separate Jewish state and certainly not at the expense of the existing population.

Time for a bi-national state
See also B'Tselem's Map of Jewish Settlements In The West Bank

Forty years of singing hope for black South Africans

raedyn — Thu, 16 Feb 2006 19:25:29 -0800

In apartheid South Africa, "We were the first blacks to go everywhere, that was the power of our music." Despite dozens of album credits, two Grammys and the long list of major artists they've performed with, their proudest accomplishment may be singing at President Mandella's inauguration and being told "Your music gave me hope when I was in prison." Ladysmith Black Mambazo has been making a difference with their traditional Zulu Isicathamiya music for over 40 years. Listen.[popup w/audio]

Israel and Apartheid

ori — Mon, 13 Feb 2006 00:16:41 -0800

Last week, the Guardian posted a three-part special report by their Middle East correspondent (and former South African correspondent) Chris McGreal on the similarities between the current situation in Israel and the South African Apartheid regime. The report provoked many heated responses, a selection of which is reproduced here and here. The Guardian responded by inviting Benjamin Pogrund, former deputy editor of the famously anti-Apartheid Rand Daily Mail in Johannesburg, author of a number of books on South Africa and founder of Yakar, a Jerusalem center for Israeli-Palestinian dialogue to weigh in with a response.

Why Does Archbishop Desmond Tutu Hate Our Chirstian Moral Values

expriest — Thu, 30 Dec 2004 15:03:44 -0800

Why Does Archbishop Desmond Tutu Hate Our Christian Moral Values? In an interview with MSNBC, the nobel prize winner slams George Bush. "I had naively believed all these many years that Americans genuinely believed in freedom of speech. [But I] discovered there that when you made an utterance that was remotely contrary to what the White House was saying, then they attacked you. For a South African the déjà vu was frightening. They behaved exactly the same way that used to happen here [during apartheid]—vilifying those who are putting forward a slightly different view."

Apartheid Dies Second Death

expriest — Tue, 30 Nov 2004 14:35:55 -0800

Apartheid Dies Second Death A South African court has declared marriage discrimination to be unconstitutional, and has registered the union of Marie Fourie and Cecelia Bonthuys. Henceforth, marriage in South Africa will be defined as "the union of two persons to the exclusion of all others for life."

The Apartheid Wall continues.

Ty Webb — Mon, 14 Jun 2004 16:02:38 -0800

The Apartheid Wall continues. Haaretz reports that Israel will soon begin construction of the wall around the illegal settlement of Ariel , deep inside the West Bank, stealing thousands of acres of Palestinian farmland in the process.

Townships

plep — Mon, 13 Oct 2003 14:08:10 -0800

South African township art , urban art, and recycled craft, some of it inspired by the anti-apartheid struggle or day-to-day survival in the post-apartheid era (and a common 'language' in multi-lingual townships).

South African Photography during the Era of Apartheid

plep — Tue, 27 May 2003 23:17:15 -0800

South African Photography during the Era of Apartheid. A good collections of photos of men, women and children.
Related :- Inside Africa: Soweto uprising remembered - the famous photo of Hector Peterson; Sam Nzimi, Photographer of the Apartheid Era; Peter Magubane.

The web makes it real

sheauga — Sat, 15 Feb 2003 10:28:42 -0800

"Give me your heart / Make it real / Or else forget about it." Baghdad snapshot action. The sounds of an actual chemical attack. A Republican, Ron Paul of Texas speaks his mind on C-SPAN. (RealPlayer). Feisty members of the Greatest Generation sass a Defense Department spokeswoman at a town meeting. Apartheid leader Pik Botha takes up the cause of nuclear disarmament.

Mick — Sat, 22 Dec 2001 17:32:23 -0800

Sexual apartheid suported by American companies such as McDonald's, Pizza Hut, Starbucks, and other U.S. firms operating in Suadi Arabia. Sun City anyone?

tomcosgrave — Wed, 05 Dec 2001 03:56:56 -0800

Former South African first lady de Klerk murdered
Believed to be the latest victim of the country's crime wave, she was found in her apartment.

Kino — Tue, 21 Aug 2001 07:35:20 -0800

Donald Woods, the South African writer, editor and anti-apartheid activist has died after succumbing to a two year illness. It feels right that MeFi too should mention it and pay its respect.. [...]

owillis — Fri, 17 Nov 2000 10:47:02 -0800

South Africa: apartheid is dead, but the attitude is still alive

lagado — Sun, 29 Oct 2000 04:52:13 -0800

On October 15thThe Guardian had for its editorial "If Palestinians were black, Israel would now be a pariah state subject to economic sanctions led by the United States. Its development and settlement of the West Bank would be seen as a system of apartheid, in which the indigenous population was allowed to live in a tiny fraction of its own country, in self-dministered 'bantustans', with 'whites' monopolising the supply of water and electricity. And just as the black population was allowed into South Africa's white areas in disgracefully under-resourced townships, so Israel's treatment of Israeli Arabs - flagrantly discriminating against them in housing and education spending - would be recognised as scandalous too.

Expanding on this description, Noam Chomsky gives an account of Israel's shift from coercive diplomacy to using direct force in implementing its "final status map". That is, the cantonization, containment and control of the Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza.