If you haven't sniggered, burped or laughed at the recent Zapiro-Muslim cartoon debacle then you probably had a very pleasant weekend. Other citizens with real jobs, like the Mail & Guardian crew, fielded threats all morning on Friday from irate...
Tens of thousands of Muslims marched through the streets of Paris yesterday to bid farewell to the burqa that is due to make its way out of French society, just in time for Summer 2010. Demonstrators cried, sang victory songs and waved an array of sc...
As racial tensions continue to rise over the murder of Eugene Terre'Blanche, and renewed concerns about the ability of black people to host thousands of visiting white people for the WC in June flourish, the South African Muslim and Halaal Authority ...
I am at Moses Mabhida Stadium for a tour, when the cute journo I'm chatting to spots a giant leopard bobbing his fractious head for a couple of photographers to our immediate left.
"Ah, first Sepp Blatter, then Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe a...
Zimbabwean journalists, now illegal workers living in Jozi's mines, have discovered a secret dossier that showcases one Julius Malema suffering from clinical depression. The dossier, found in the abandoned mines of Diepklip bordering the dry Mid-rand...
I don't like press conferences. Organised to propagate nothing more than a particular message, they are spaces where real questions are rarely asked because they are really no place for real answers.
Everything is pre-empted, rehearsed, and answer...
With the country in a tizz after sizzling reactions to severe price hikes as "tenderised Malema" hit the newsstands, fictitious members of the ANC top-brass met at an emergency meeting on Monday to resolve the latest crisis in the party.As news of go...
I know nothing about pubs and bars, except of course what Hollywood has taught me. This means that my idea of bars save a couple of visits with friends is really imprinted with the image of depressed sods having reconciliatory drinks before going hom...
Three months before he was voted in as president, Zuma took out his machine gun and slipped a ball through Irvin Khoza's legs. In most countries, this would be called "infidelity", in South Africa it's called shibobo.
No wonder we're such poor foo...
An interesting email did the rounds last week. It was an open letter/apology from a former South African Breweries (SAB) employee to Proteas batting star Hashim Amla, which was posted by Bobby Skinstad on his personal blog. The story goes that when A...
Azad Essa is a freelance journalist, lecturer and an aspiring filmmaker. He completed an MA with the Global Studies Program in 2005, spending semesters in Germany and India, during which he encountered a number of head-banging social theories explaining why the world was, is and always will be unfair. Of course, he knew them already, but the travelling really rocked.
By day, he butters his bread at IOLS at UKZN, the Workers College and whoever else willing to give him work. But by night, he swiftly sheds his mask, dons a cape and sets out to flay flag bearers of social inequality, political injustice and dim-wittedness. Azad is some sort of accidental academic, forced into intellectual slavery after making a poor case on the sports field. All he really wants is to be free.
Accidental Academic won best political blog at the South African Blog awards 2009
