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Today we said goodbye to Busi. What was fitting was that her funeral service was held at Soweto’s largest Catholic Church, Regina Mundi When protesting students were fired at by police on their way to Orlando Stadium on June 16…
My sista friend Busi!
Yesterday my dear sweet friend Busi died. She was 25, a survivor or rape, HIV+ with diabetes and other complications. This photo was taken by me on the 18th February 2007 – one of those happy days of just hanging…
They remove boulders, they cross rivers
Feminist African Voices 7 publishes a series of articles from the Diaspora starting with a review of the debate around what constitutes the African Diaspora. The essays explore “the gendered experiences of diasporan populations and the influence of the diaspora…
Quick Links –
****Ecology magazine interviews Wangari Maathai Speaking on the launch of her memoir “Unbowed”. On Carbon off-setting schemes and the planting of trees.. Now let me say this. There are some people who really criticise the whole issue of carbon off-setting…
Take a moment, stand back and think
In my recent post “Joburg Week” I mentioned the Out in Africa film festival and the opening speech delivered by Deputy Chief Justice Moseneke The festival was opened by Deputy Chief Justice Dikgang Moseneke. An African man of a certain…
Joburg week
Another week in Joburg – I am growing to love this place – the buzz, people I meet, things happening, the edge, living and working with dedicated front-line activists and friends I have made. Yet at the same time there…
Abahlali baseMjondolo
The Abahlali baseMjondolo (Shack Dwellers) Movement is now in it’s second year and is the “largest organisation of militant poor in South Africa” . It is based in and around the port city of Durban and involves 30 settlements. Last…
Update on Abahlali Kennedy Rd Prisoners.
The Kennedy Road 5 are now in their second week of detention whilst more arrests are being threatened. They have been remanded in custody until April 13 which means they will have been in detention without being able to apply…
Butterflys should be free
One of the great things about being in Joburg and being able to travel to Durban in an hour by plane is that there is so much going on. I can hardly keep up. Last week along with Kameelah I…
Quick Links – Black History
*Diaspora Radio Network As part of Black history month celebrations, Jean Jabouin, Betty Sylvestre and Steve Robinson discuss Nigeria and its connections to the Black Diaspora. *AfrotBrit Site of Black popular culture and history in the UK – click on…
Goodman Gallery
I just discovered via a friend, The Goodman Gallery and unfortuantely missed the latest exhibition by Guy Tillim from the DRC. Thankfully the Gallery has chosen to leave all the photographic exhibits from 2005 and 2006 online. Here’s another one…
Maybe somebody is dead & their money paid for my pap
In yesterday’s Quick Links I post I mentioned briefly Kameelah’s suggestion that we need to redefine who is criminal and what is crime. Who are the real victims of crime, certainly not the people in the far off suburbs protected…
A personal story of living with HIV
Busi is a 24 year old lesbian identified woman who was raped last October and as a result is now HIV+. She discovered she was positive in April this year and started on ARVs in August because her CD4 count…
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Ben Caesar performing “I Stand Against”… violence against women. This was filmed in October 2006 at a Treatment Action Campaign event in Muizenberg Western Cape.
Es’kia Institute
Es’kiaOnline is the home of the Es’kia Institute named after renowed South African writer and activist, Es’kia Mphahlele. Their mission statement: “The Es’kia Institute is organic to the lives of the people it serves in the area of its…
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