#Cape_Town’s #Art fair
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Art players and enthusiasts from around the world and down the street will coalesce at the Cape International Convention Centre 17-19 February for the latest staging of the Cape Town Art Fair. Now in its 5th iteration, the fair’s gallery participation and audiences have grown as the global interest in African art has blossomed. This…
The #Art of “Unrest” by #Cape_Town’s #Hasan_and_Husain_Essop
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The Cape Town-born twin brothers Hasan and Husain Essop move beyond the expected. They play with fixed notions of place and identity as well as preconceptions of religion and tradition.....
It makes perfect sense to name one of #Cape_Town’s busiest roads after #FW_de_Klerk
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All this controversy around honoring former #Apartheid president FW de Klerk by renaming one of Cape Town’s busiest streets after him got me thinking. The act of public naming is.....
#AFRICA_IS_A_COUNTRY #Democratic_Alliance #Patricia_de_Lille #racism
Discovering #Prophets_of_da_City
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One late afternoon while milling about at the University of #Cape_Town’s main campus, I ran into #Adam_Haupt, the Associate Professor of Media Studies who’s authored books such as Static: Race and Representation in Post-Apartheid #MUSIC, Media and Film, and Stealing Empire: P2P, Intellectual Property and Hip-Hop Subversion. I had known of Adam (or Dr. Hip-Hop) through […]
#Cape_Town’s Pretend Partnership
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There have been only a few instances in my life where my reflex response to a situation has been to throw up. One of these occasions was last Monday night − and the impulse lasted almost three hours.
#POLITICS #Bonteheuwel #Bulelwa_Makalima-Ngewana #Cape_Town_Partnership #Caroline_Jordan #Heideveld #World_Design_Capital
Born Free Films
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In a few months, South Africa’s “born free generation” will cast their ballots in the country’s fifth democratic election for the first time. It’s been 20 years since the apartheid government lost power, and yet the country remains among the most unequal in the world. In #Khayelitsha, #Cape_Town’s fastest growing township, residents are faced with poor sanitation, service delivery and infrastructure, in addition to increasing gang violence. These circumstances–paired with an inadequate education system that fails to prepare students for a future their parents fought for – begs the question: were they really “born (...)
Under Nelson Mandela Boulevard—A Story About #Cape_Town’s Tanzanian #stowaways—Summer 2012
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Towards the end of 2012 Moses was arrested and charged under the Immigration Act for being in the country illegally. He called to say he was being held in Pollsmoor Prison, then weeks went by in which I heard nothing. Moses was the last of my good contacts in the beach boy community. In the […]
#PHOTOGRAPHY #David_Southwood #Sean_Christie #South_Africa #Tanzania
Under Nelson Mandela Boulevard—A Story About #Cape_Town’s Tanzanian #stowaways—Winter 2012
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Adam called one day in June 2012 to say he had seen a ship he liked the look of in the Ben Schoeman Dock, and that he would probably be gone before the end of the day. We met at The Freezer where he smoked the usual procession of joints and unpacked his travel bag […]
#PHOTOGRAPHY #David_Southwood #Sean_Christie #South_Africa #Tanzania
A Story About #Cape_Town’s Tanzanian #stowaways—Spring 2011
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It was a few months before I bumped into Daniel-Peter again. His once tiny English vocabulary, which had nevertheless contained the words “anchorage”, “fibreglass”, “first mate” and “consulate”–gleaned from the Ukranian crew of a ship he boarded in Durban in 2010–had expanded to the point at which unmediated conversation had become possible. It was an […]
#PHOTOGRAPHY #David_Southwood #Sean_Christie #South_Africa #Tanzania
Under Nelson Mandela Boulevard—A Story About #Cape_Town’s Tanzanian #stowaways
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It was mid-2011 when I first heard about the community of Tanzanian stowaways living under Nelson Mandela Boulevard at the foot of Cape Town, where the high rise buildings end and the docklands begin. #David_Southwood was the guy who knew about them, a local photographer with a penchant, to quote his writer friend Ivan […]