DJ Focus bringing African innovation to MIT

Nov 20, 12 DJ Focus bringing African innovation to MIT

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Kelvin Doe is just another amazing young African man beating the odds. Kelvin is a self-taught innovator from Sierra Leone, finding exciting new ways to use what little resources he has at his disposal to develop solutions to local problems. Is innovation just the new discourse of capital in the Global North? Or is it possible for...

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African men aren’t all violent, angry warlords?

Apr 26, 12 African men aren’t all violent, angry warlords?

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Only a tad ironic that they thought it necessary to use subtitles but hey, anyone with the guts to contradict Shirtless Matthew Mcconaughey deserves a little re-post love.       Nice work to Mama Hope on this...

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Sexism in the Courts

Jan 18, 12 Sexism in the Courts

Posted by in Culture, Featured, News & Media, Politics

On Monday in a magistrate’s Court in Cape Town, Magistrate Chumani Giyos, sexually harassed a group of 12 women facing charges under the Immigration Act, saying to them during a hearing, “You are really beautiful, hey!” and concluding the hearing with “I have never seen so many beautiful women at one time, I hope to see you...

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Saffer craving passport and boerie

Oct 17, 11 Saffer craving passport and boerie

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Article 21 of the South African Constitution is not such a tricky provision to understand. It says pretty clearly that as a citizen of the country, I am entitled to a passport. It also says that I am allowed to leave the country and re-enter the country. So I am pretty confident that I am allowed to reside outside of South Africa,...

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Noxolo Nogwaza – South Africa & Rape

May 25, 11 Noxolo Nogwaza – South Africa & Rape

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Recently, Noxolo Nogwaza was brutally beaten, murdered and allegedly raped in Kwa-Thema township, in the context of an alarming rate of homophobic attacks and “corrective rapes.”  As a campaigner for equal rights and member of the Ekurhuleni Pride Organizing Committee (EPOC), the brutality of her death makes a mockery of our...

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