Archive for the ‘Southern Africa’ Category
The media frenzy over Eugene Terre’Blanche’s death has been a great source of interest over the past few weeks. It turned out to be remarkable for this blog, as I wrote a little piece on Mr. TB and the AWB over a month before his death. Sadly, no journalist (to my knowledge) thought it fit […]
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Swedish Resistance Movement, Stockholm, this week: Excuse my ridiculous title for this post. I frame it partly to poke fun at academic jargon, but partly to highlight some uncertainty. What are the words for this European, and therefore extra-settler, rights discourse? Is it new? Is it likely to stick around? Can we compare it to, […]
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table bay, 1652
Charles Bell (1813-82), Jan van Riebeeck arrives in Table Bay in April 1652, via wiki.
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Jeanne M. Penvenne, Review Article: Valdemir Zamparoni. De escravo a cozinheiro: Colonialismo & racismo em Moçambique. Salvador: Editora da Universidade Federal da Bahia, 2007. Maps, illustrations, tables. 338 pp. no price listed (cloth), ISBN 978-85-232-0440-2. The book’s structure is essentially cross-chronological: four chapters, an introduction, a two-page conclusion, and a bibliography. Chapter 1 is the […]
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via Africa is a Country Promised Land Trailer from Yoruba Richen on Vimeo.
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Leader of the Afrikaner Weerstandbeweging Eugene Terre’blanche has been murdered. According to the official newsreel of the AWB: It is with shock, dismay, frustration and the greatest of emotional pain that we were informed that our leader, Eugene Terre’Blanche was murdered on his farm Villanna (meaning “Home of Anna”) just outside Ventersdorp called around 17:00 […]
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Haaretz, the Israeli newspaper, is a fascinating place to publish a feature article on Afrikanerdom. Here’s some of what Benjamin Pogrund wrote up today: The establishment of the State of Israel only a few days before the 1948 election also affected Afrikaner attitudes: Despite their anti-Semitism, their intense Calvinism meant that they venerated the People […]
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The Zimbabwean phenomenon briefly touched upon in the post “Second Thoughts on Land Seizures in Southern Africa” is certainly a complex issue. Two important recent studies on the topic have surfaced in recent months. Ben Cousins and Ian Scoones, “Contested Paradigms of ‘Viability’ in Redistributive Land Reform: Perspectives from Southern Africa”, Journal of Peasant Studies, […]
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Federico Settler, ‘Indigenous Authorities and the post-colonial state: the domestication of indigeneity and African nationalism in South Africa’, Social Dynamics 36, 1, 2010. Abstract: Since the advent of the African Union, confidence in Africa’s renaissance has been high, but a number of state-civil society anxieties continue to challenge stable social relations. One area of anxiety […]
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goldblatt in boksburg
Michael Stevenson is exhibiting David Goldblatt’s awesome selection of apartheid photography at the moment, which you can see on his gallery website. This is my favourite: David Goldblatt, “Saturday morning at the Hypermarket: Miss Lovely Legs Competition”. Silver gelatin print, 1979.
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