Black Looks

  • Silencing the poor in the new South Africa

    Posted: September 30, 2007, 12:59 am by Sokari
    Over the past 9 months I have written about the harassment of residents of informal settlements in Durban and Cape Town by local police and housing officials. Recently communities from both cities have been holding protest demonstrations against evictions, urbanisation and the failure of the government to build sufficient social housing. Where [...]

  • Raining tears

    Posted: September 27, 2007, 8:08 pm by Sokari
    A mixture of too much travel, personal issues, life changes, relocating and just plain old tiredness equals Blogger purgatory - that place you find yourself when you cannot think, read or write. Not only have I hardly written anything I have hardly read any blogs for weeks so today in the hope of finding [...]

  • We need maloti!

    Posted: September 26, 2007, 11:44 am by Rethabile

  • One African Remembered

    Posted: September 19, 2007, 3:09 pm by Sokari
    Thanks to Riemer-O-Rama for sending the link to this Stolper in memory of Mahjub bin Adam Mohammed Tags: African German; Germany; Nazi Share This:

  • Untold stories: Black victims of nazi genocide

    Posted: September 18, 2007, 9:54 pm by Sokari
    Hitler referred to them as “Rhineland bastards” - the hundreds of children born of German mothers and African fathers. The men were African soldiers deployed by the French army in Germany’s Rhineland after WW1. Finally a memorial is to be erected outside the home of one Black victim of the Nazi holocoust giving [...]

  • Dandaudu

    Posted: September 18, 2007, 10:36 am by Sokari
    Last August 18 men were arrested in Bauchi State, Nigeria on charges of sodomy. The charges of sodomy have now been dropped and changed to “indecent dressing” or cross-dressing and “vagrancy” under the Sharia law which carries one year in prison or 30 lashes. Despite the constant refrain that [...]

  • Thetsane blues

    Posted: September 11, 2007, 12:16 pm by Rethabile
    I want to see you dance among blue-pale wisps at night, when shebeens are dense with the factory worker, and bone-shaking mbaqanga* fills the shack. I want to see you dance with your body that quakes as you slide aside to let a rhythm by, only to pick up some other tones heading away against the force of shriller, more common notes, trembling to this sound [...]

  • Call for poetry…

    Posted: September 4, 2007, 2:51 pm by Rethabile
    AGENDA #74 – Rape Poems will be considered for publication in Agenda 74, which will be published in the beginning of December 2007. Poetry can be but does not have to be on the theme of rape. Length of contributions: Poems have to fit a full page of Agenda (slightly bigger than A5) Submission deadline: 14 September 2007 Submission requirements: All [...]
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