by Daniel Krähmer | Oct 15, 2011
It was a strange feeling to be in Zuccotti Park (once called Liberty Plaza Park), right next to Ground Zero. I was with thousands of people listening to speeches through the “people’s microphone.” The crowd looked so similar to those of the late 1990s/early 2000s...
by Daniel Krähmer | Mar 15, 2012
Ramy Essam began the 25 January revolution in Egypt purely as participant, a responsibility he felt happy to undertake. But he was soon called upon by his fellow protestors to provide the soundtrack to their struggles and was quickly labelled ‘the singer of the...
by Daniel Krähmer | Jun 4, 2012
Union says freedom of expression doesn’t extend to freedom to insult SADTU calls for the immediate removal of Zuma painting SADTU is joining the ANC and COSATU in the call to have the painting of President Jacob Zuma showing his private parts removed from the...
by Daniel Krähmer | Jun 7, 2012
…in my experience poetry speaks to you either at first sight or not at all. A flash of revelation and a flash of response. Like lightning. Like falling in love. Like falling in love. Do the young still fall in love, or is that mechanism obsolete by now,...
by Daniel Krähmer | Jun 9, 2012
I SINCERELY hope all white South Africans have taken proper notice of the depth of continuing black anger and hurt at the memory of apartheid and its bitter legacy. Perhaps that was the one positive spinoff of the Zuma Spear debacle. A few weeks ago, in response to...