Tag: south africa

• Past Present Future: Politics on Trial: Nelson Mandela vs Apartheid

  December 14, 2025

  Listen: https://open.spotify.com/episode/4w2rGct1HE074Prd6xYFrg?si=6vpXyd0tTvCEMawFYfGNaw Today’s episode explores the trials of Nelson Mandela, variously charged by South Africa’s apartheid state with treason, incitement, illegal foreign travel, sabotage and conspiracy across a decade that… more ›

• Why South Africa’s Wine Scene Isn’t Ready For Global Investors Yet | The Luxury Playbook

  September 20, 2025

  South African wine is having its moment in the spotlight, with critics from Wine Spectator to Jancis Robinson praising the country’s “New Wave” producers for creating wines that rival anything… more ›

• A portrait of life in South Africa’s ‘white-only’ squats

  March 17, 2024

  Plakkerskamp is a photo series that documents both the white squatter camps and white-only communities that have developed in South Africa. These images, taken around Pretoria and Johannesburg, represent a fraction of the estimated… more ›

• ‘Our Auschwitz, our Dachau’

  November 6, 2022

  Waterberg, Namibia – The lacy shadows of the acacia trees lie over the dry grass. A chilly winter breeze sighs through the branches. https://www.aljazeera.com/features/longform/2022/11/6/reckoning-with-genocide-in-namibia more ›

• Glencore to Settle US, UK Investigations for $1.5 Billion

  August 21, 2022

  “Bribery was built in to the corporate culture,” Manhattan US Attorney Damian Williams said at a press conference. “The tone from the top was clear: whatever it takes.” Glencore paid… more ›

• How Zello keeps people in the loop during South Africa’s unrest

  August 3, 2021

  The “walkie-talkie” app is fast evolving from a 911 replacement to a neighborhood communication app. On June 29, former South African president Jacob Zuma was sentenced to 15 months in… more ›

• Lunga Ntila — nataal.com

  June 20, 2021

  “I have made myself a vessel for higher powers to work through me, I have opened up my heart” https://nataal.com/lunga-ntila more ›

• The corporatization of food in South Africa

  November 15, 2020

  When our priority is growing food for profit, people will go hungry. It is simply more profitable to grow food for retail and export than it is to feed people… more ›

• I Am a Model and I Know That Artificial Intelligence Will Eventually Take My Job

  July 26, 2020

  Shudu Gram is a striking South African model. She’s what fashion likes to call “one to watch,” with a Balmain campaign in 2018, a feature in Vogue Australia on changing… more ›

• How colonial rule committed Africa to fragile authoritarianism

  November 4, 2019

  The impact of colonial rule on sub-Saharan Africa continues to be the subject of intense debate and controversy. Barely a year goes by in the UK without a public figure… more ›