Actual questions from a South African journalist
The long-held and widespread attitudes some South African journalists share about the struggle for liberation.
26 Articles by:
Herman Wasserman
Herman Wasserman is Professor of Journalism and Director of the Centre for Information Integrity in Africa at Stellenbosch University.
The story of a lost white boy
The story of Happy Sindane, the lost white boy, who put a lie to South Africa’s rainbow shibboleths.
It’s time to be offended
Middle class South African inertia and the police murder of activist Andries Tatane during a protest in town in the Free State province.
Renunciation and redemption
The deadly serious games of J M Coetzee’s novel about the transition from apartheid to democracy in South Africa, ‘Disgrace.’
Flavor of the Month
The UK Observer, despite its best attempts, does not have its finger on the pulse of the South African literary scene. The World Cup didn’t help.
Bok van Blerk’s Darkest Africa
Bok van Blerk’s new music video mines familiar racist tropes of starving, diseased children in a war-torn African country saved by a blonde heroine and her white male companion.
Rankin does South Africa
British fashion photographer Rankin sets out on ‘his own personal journey’ to understand South Africa. The result is actually quite good.
The Radio Kalahari Orkes
The curious appeal of a band of celebrity Afrikaner musicians engaging with a quite easily defined past and present.
Two Men, Two Countries
Who are the real victims of crime and violence in South Africa?
Manufacturing controversy
The mass support for Caster Semenya among South Africans is paradoxical: of a country deeply divided, yet at certain moments strangely united around a common cause.