I've lived for twenty years with a ban on my writing by Media24. The company destroyed black jazz history, photography and a piece on Iranian Faridah Zariv's "Hand of Fatima" exhibition at the Bo Kaap. For my trouble I was locked up, subjected to...
Why our media lacks credibility when it comes to Iran
MEDIA24, the same outlet that destroyed several of my articles and photography related to South African black Jazz history, also spiked a 2006 review of Farideh Zariv "Hand of Fatima" exhibition in the Bo Kaap. Zariv is an Iranian expat living in Australia, whose work poses important questions ab...
How Senegal built a train that took cars off the road
Dishonest spaces, Ntsiki Mazwai & Jewface
Ntsiki Mazwai's "Moyo Space" claims to be 'a social cohesion space', and yet it is anything but safe when it comes to Jews. Yesterday, she blocked me from attending her sessions, the latest has as its starting point the Film & Publications Board (FPB) refusal to certify a propaganda film that rep...
Herman Lategan, slave labour, apartheid collaborator?
THE Bertelsmann Group, now a global media conglomerate, publisher of Herman Lategan's biography Hoerkind (Penguin Random), has acknowledged that it was not a resistance fighter but a collaborator with the Nazi regime, becoming the largest supplier of books to the German army (Wehrmacht). Founder...
Narcissism of the Left: Dear Daniel Friedman
YOUR LETTER is published behind a paywall associated with an apartheid media company that refuses to publish my own letters and has censored and destroyed my writing and photography, but is copied on social media. My earlier piece on Nigel Branken, and Cachalia also refers. I choose to respond di...