Since 2010, South Africans have celebrated Nelson Mandela International Day to mark Mandela’s birthday. Many people in the country, both young and old, honour his legacy on July 18 by volunteering and performing community service. Sibusiso Mazibuko spent Mandela Day…
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A portrait of gentrification in Johannesburg
The mean streets of Johannesburg, South Africa, put fear into the hearts of the most hardened. But a Canadian documentary filmmaker brushes off how she was once carjacked at gunpoint as if it were like being stuck in traffic on…
Tagged with: Arya Laloo, gentrification, jeppestown, Johannesburg, montreal, Montreal Gazette, Neil Fraser, Parabola Films, Sarah Spring, Shannon Walsh, South Africa, The Gazette, Urban Inc.
Posted in Print
Posted in Print
#Johannesburg, South Africa: A #World Class #African #City ?
A marketing campaign claiming Johannesburg as “A World Class African City” has been deemed “misleading” by the South African Advertising Standards Authority. Long-time urban consultant Neil Fraser (Urban Inc.) reflects on the 30-plus years of work he’s put into this…
Tagged with: A World Class African City, advertising, Apartheid, gentrification, Johannesburg, Neil Fraser, South Africa, urban consultant, Urban Inc.
Posted in Radio
Posted in Radio
Jeppe on a Friday – a #radio doc about a #film doc in #SouthAfrica
Synopsis: Jeppe on a Friday is a 2013 South African documentary film about gentrification in Jeppestown, a low-income district in Johannesburg in the midst of re-development. This radio documentary examines the collaborative process used by Canadian filmmaker Shannon Walsh in cinema…
Tagged with: Arya Laloo, cinema verite, documentary, film, gentrification, Jeppe on a Friday, jeppestown, Johannesburg, Neil Frasier, Shannon Walsh, South Africa
Posted in Radio
Posted in Radio
From Accra to Arusha: A journalist’s journey across Africa
Okay, I know it’s cliche to travel to Africa and expect to launch my career as an international journalist. But, hey, if it worked out for so many others, why not give it a try? Of course I spent six…
Tagged with: Ghana, South Africa, malawi, tanzania, accra, farm radio international, Arusha, #media, #RightsMedia, JHR, Journalists for Human Rights, Children's Radio Foundation, Zodiak Radio, ZBS Malawi, Sub-Saharan Africa, Adam's adventures, A journalist's journey, press freedom, journalism, RSF, Reporters Without Borders
Posted in op-ed
Posted in op-ed
Uhuru means freedom – The long road from Cape Town to Nairobi
In the KiSwahili language ‘uhuru’ means freedom. In Kenya, a man named Uhuru was recently elected president of the republic. Uhuru Kenyatta was sworn into office on Apr.9, 2013. He brings with him serious baggage after being accused of crimes…
Tagged with: ANC, Cape Town, Jubilee Coalition, kenya, nairobi, president, Raila Odinga, republic of Kenya, South Africa, Uhuru Kenyatta
Posted in op-ed
Posted in op-ed
From the Coast to the Falls: Travels through Mozambique, Malawi and Zambia
All throughout my travels in Africa my sole means of transportation has been public transit (local and long distance buses). This has been difficult to say the least, but I’ve made the most of it. Of course now most of…
Tagged with: blantyre, buses, chipata, inhambane, lilongwe, livingstone, lusaka, malawi, maputo, mozambique, nakonde, nucleo de arte, public transit, South Africa, tofo beach, victoria falls, vilankulos, zambia
Posted in op-ed
Posted in op-ed
The Rainbow Nation – South Africa
After spending the entire month of February in South Africa, I think I should take a moment to reflect on my time in this fascinating country. I find South Africa quite a contradiction. How a nation can laud its achievements…
Tagged with: Cape Town, durban, jeppestown, Johannesburg, long walk to freedom, madiba, madiba pilgrimage, nelson mandela, rainbow nation, South Africa
Posted in op-ed
Posted in op-ed
Cry, the beloved country
In 1948, before the South African government’s implementation of the unjust apartheid system (racist law separating blacks from whites) a writer named Alan Paton wrote these famous words: “Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that is the inheritor…
Tagged with: ANC, Cape Town, Cry the beloved country, Johannesburg, Port Elizabeth, South Africa, Soweto, The State of Africa
Posted in op-ed
Posted in op-ed
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