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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Most South Africans grow up without an innate sense of malice. The genuine, intentional urge to do harm to things and people is not normally there. At least, not in my experience with virtually anyone I have interacted with. So why then do so many of us end up doing so much wrong? We grow up learning not to litter, because it will...
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By now anyone in South Africa without their head in the ground will have read about the controversial Brett Murray painting hanging limply (yes, I made that joke) in the Goodman Gallery in Joburg:
We can all understand why the ANC would be angry about the piece. I mean, the proportions are clearly WAY out, and I’m sure...
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After much umming and ahhing, a friend and I finally got to wander around a penthouse at Ponte City on the outskirts of Hillbrow today, and boy, were we surprised! Melrose Arch, it is not – and no one ever pretended it is; however, Abuja extension (to use the pejorative) it isn’t either.
Now granted we would probably...
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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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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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