Archive for the ‘Southern Africa’ Category
This is really captivating viewing: a YouTube clip of Eugene Terre’Blanche at the end of last year. Yes, he’s has made a comeback, appealing to the Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging bittereinders to adjust their rhetoric of discontent. Gone is the gun-toting hyperbole of standing their ground, and subtler is the racist language of their leader. Their new […]
Filed under: Political developments, public lecture, Southern Africa | Closed
The Northern Territory intervention has allowed the Australian government to experiment with ‘quarantined’ welfare provision – by rolling out ‘Basics cards’ – in the region. Today the ABC has published an interview in which the system is called ‘apartheid-like’ – although this type of rhetoric has been around since 2008 (see rollbacktheintervention). The comparison of […]
Filed under: Australia, media, Political developments, Southern Africa | Closed
The latest edition of Safundi: The Journal of South African and American Studies includes some pretty interesting reviews. District 9 (the 2009 film that director Neill Blomkamp insisted was not meant to convey a “political” message, but contains all sorts of settler colonial signposting) is given a roundtable review. Also, in the book reviews section, […]
Filed under: Scholarship and insights, Southern Africa | Closed
Laura J. Mitchell has published a brilliant monograph on the VOC, settlers, and natives in early Southern Africa. The book analyses contact, law and order, settler life, Khoisan resistance and Company authority all in one neat package – and is arranged beautifully. Congratulations to Dr. Mitchell for her fantastic monograph, and for her decision to […]
Filed under: Empire, gender, Scholarship and insights, Southern Africa | Closed
trekking to libya?
South African farmers seeking greener pastures, and Libya has been earmarked as a potential settler domain.
Filed under: Political developments, Southern Africa | Closed
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