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"Minister of Toilets"
Yesterday, November 19, was World Toilet Day, and as New York Times reporter and blogger, Andrew Revkin, reminded his readers (at his excellent Dot World Blog) “… more than a third of the … more →
Africa is a Country
"Minister of Toilets"
Sean Jacobs wrote 7 months ago: Yesterday, November 19, was World Toilet Day, and as New York Times reporter and blogger, Andrew Rev … more →
'It's hard to stand up for the oppressed while riding in a limousine'
Sean Jacobs wrote 1 year ago: Chris McGreal in the UK Guardian on the bling of the new leadership of South Africa’s ruling p … more →
Jacob Zuma's Umshini Wam*
Sean Jacobs wrote 1 year ago: So South Africa’s African National Congress is meeting in Polokwane, the capital of Limpopo pr … more →
White Flight
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Sean Jacobs wrote 1 year ago: Why did J M Coetzee leave South Africa? The New York Times Book Review’s Rachel Donadio (she … more →
Enwezor and Kentridge
Sean Jacobs wrote 1 year ago: Okwei Enwezor (Nigerian-born curator most famously behind the exhibit “A Short Century of Libe … more →
Is Jacob Zuma having the last laugh?
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Sean Jacobs wrote 1 year ago: Is Jacob Zuma guaranteed to be South Africa’s next President? In an analysis piece toda … more →
'To oppose the World Cup would be to oppose the new South Africa'
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Sean Jacobs wrote 1 year ago: Financial Times sports columnist Simon Kuper suggests that for South Africa’s establishment, s … more →
I Write What I Like
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Sean Jacobs wrote 1 year ago: I have not been blogging much as I am preparing for a roundtable discussion entitled, ‘Biko: I … more →
The end of white politics as we know it
Sean Jacobs wrote 1 year ago: Christi van der Westhuizen is one of the best political journalists in South Africa. For a long time … more →
Lucky Dube's legacy
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Sean Jacobs wrote 1 year ago: Reggae musician Lucky Dube’s tragic murder has ironically resulted in greater attention to his … more →
Sound Bites: Carnegie Oral History Project
Sean Jacobs wrote 1 year ago: Columbia University Libraries Oral History Research Office has placed online a series of video inter … more →
The New South Africa
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Sean Jacobs wrote 1 year ago: My friend (and former colleague) Brett Davidson took this picture at the entrance to the grounds tha … more →
Seven Days
Sean Jacobs wrote 1 year ago: Mshimi wamiThe BBC thinks it has figured out the African National Congress in South Africa’s … more →
' South Africa's Winter of Discontent'
Sean Jacobs wrote 1 year ago: The Nation (the left-liberal opinion magazine out of New York) just published an article on politica … more →
Sissako makes film about South African transition
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Sean Jacobs wrote 1 year ago: Of course not, but I can dream. Instead Clint Eastwood is to direct a film about the 1995 Rugby Wor … more →
Yes Anthony Sher. It's all about you.
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Sean Jacobs wrote 1 year ago: Britain’s Channel More 4 (a part of Channel 4) this week broadcast a documentary by South Afr … more →
'South African Rugby: No Rainbow'
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Sean Jacobs wrote 1 year ago: My best achievement in competitive rugby was the semi-final of a regional high school tournament in … more →
'The New Apartheid'?
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Sean Jacobs wrote 1 year ago: Hillary Mantel reviews two new books on AIDS: regular New York Review of Books contributor Helen Ep … more →
Is Mbeki 'one of the world's worst Presidents'?
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Sean Jacobs wrote 1 year ago: The journalist John Carlin, who reported on South Africa in the early 1990s, thinks so in an op-ed p … more →
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