Stories about South Africa from February, 2006
South African film for oscar
Mzansi Afrika reports that the South African film “Totsi” has been nominated for an Oscar in the Best Foreign Film category.
Fires in focus in the South African blogosphere
The last few weeks have been slow in the South African blogosphere. The most exciting thing happening this week is the is that nominations have just opened for the second annual South African blog Awards. There are 14 categories including: South African blog of 2005 – The best of the...
Kenya: dog food for children
White African points to a story in Yahoo News that a New Zealand woman planned to send dog food to “Kenya's starving children“.He asks if this story is possible?…”The Kenya National Commission on Human Rights condemned the offer as a degrading assault on the dignity of the country’s children.”
South Africa: Marxism
South African blog, Floyds Perspective publishes an essay on Marxism and South Africa which asks…..”Marxist tool of analysis is relevant to South Africa. Like many other African countries, South Africa was a colonial and/or imperial country, though conceptualised as that of a special type”.