South Africa: Police Tight-Lipped On Rapper AKA Murder Probe As Father Reveals Plans for ‘Dignified Send-Off’
[Daily Maverick] A memorial service for slain rapper AKA — Kiernan Forbes — will be held this Friday at the Sandton Convention Centre, and he will be buried on Saturday. Police are tight-lipped about the investigation into his murder.
South Africa: Ronald Lamola Calls for Quick Arrest and Prosecution of Rapper AKA’s Killers
[Daily Maverick] Justice Minister Ronald Lamola kicked off his address to a meeting of the South African National Editors’ Forum on Saturday by passing his condolences to the family of rapper Kiernan ‘AKA’ Forbes, 35, who was shot dead outside a restau…
Africa: Top Video Game Reproduces Racial Stereotypes in Football
[Daily Maverick] Analysis of players’ abilities coded into bestselling Fifa title reveals bias that may be influencing children as they play.
South Africa: Leading Anti-Apartheid Liberation Theologian Dies
[Daily Maverick] Well-known South African Catholic priest, anti-apartheid activist and internationally renowned theologian and author Father Albert Nolan has died at the age of 88.
South Africa: UK Welcomes Open Debate About Its Colonial Past, Says High Commissioner to SA
[Daily Maverick] Antony Phillipson was responding to the debate Queen Elizabeth’s death has provoked about her legacy in South Africa, as in other former colonies, with some commentators seeing her as a reminder of Britain’s colonial past.
South Africa: Ingrid Jonker Prize Winner Jacques Coetzee On Political Awakening, Blindness, Poetry and Music
[Daily Maverick] Coetzee has been writing poetry and singing since he was a child, spurred on by his mother’s readings to the family of action-driven narrative poems and by his two older sisters’ enthusiasm about reading to him. He has won the 2022 Ing…
South Africa: Makhanda Arts Festival of Smiles Returns to Rise Like a Fragile Phoenix
[Daily Maverick] The National Arts Festival returned after a two-year break, and a new shoot of South African creativity is now breaking through the ground burnt by the pandemic.
South Africa: The Chamber of Thoughts – a Youth Day Exhibition Capturing the Reflections of Young Artists
[Daily Maverick] As part of the Youth Day Parade on Thursday, 16 June, Sumaiyah Ally Kotty and Mariam Bawa of Studio Sketch have curated an exhibition featuring art, poetry and photography produced by young people. The exhibition, organised in collabor…
South Africa: U.S. Professor Guides SA Youth to Express What They Want Using Art
[Daily Maverick] In 2019, 48 engaged, passionate and hopeful young South Africans collaborated with me, resulting in a series of 50 works of art titled ‘Attached to the Soil’.
South Africa: New Language Policies At Schools Get a Tongue-Lashing Over Costs, Feasibility and the Fate of Afrikaans
[Daily Maverick] A review of legislation governing basic education will change the way language policies are navigated at schools. A draft law pushing for multilingualism has not been universally welcomed.