by Daniel Krähmer | Feb 14, 2012
When they protested in the winter of 1980, high school students fighting apartheid’s gutter education had a brand new marching song in their arsenal. This song became the trademark of the tumultuous events of that year and the succeeding decade, as opposition to...
by Daniel Krähmer | Jun 9, 2012
Amid the logic-destroying hysteria surrounding Brett Murray’s (now defaced) The Spear, the Film and Publications Board will sit to decide if personal dignity trumps art and freedom of expression. Eighteen years into South Africa’s democracy and our censorship system...
by Daniel Krähmer | Oct 15, 2014
The message from the estimated 150,000 marchers who took part in the 9th August Cape Town march in solidarity with Palestine was powerful, principled and unequivocal: South Africa must end its diplomatic relations with Israel. It is a betrayal of South Africa’s...