"Sometimes it falls upon a generation to be great. You can be that great generation."
The “overwhelming adversity” they had to face daily as a result of living in an informal dwelling felt “like a mountain fell on me”, said one Cape Town resident. Politicians from across the spectrum have lied to the public for years about their plans to “eradicate”, “upgrade” and “transform” informal settlements.
Filmmaker Amirah Tajdin and her producer sister Wafa Tajdin are currently working on their first feature, titled “Walls of Leila”, and are running a Kickstarter campaign to help launch their production.
Fresh off a Japanese tour, Capetonian jazz musician Kyle Shepherd returns with a third album entitled ‘South African History !X,’ which, he explains in the video below, “pays homage to the languages of the first nation people” and brings to the front’s South Africa’s slave holding past.
Pulling a bright green bib over her school uniform, 13-year-old Likhona Blanket prepares to join her team of seven female football players on a bumpy patch of grass in a school yard in one of Cape Town’s poorest communities.
Something unusual is happening in Atlantis. Created in the 1970s to fulfill the apartheid government’s agenda to evict “coloured” South Africans from Cape Town, Atlantis has always been best known as the city that apartheid built.
In what is described as a “win for Cape Town, South Africa and the African continent”, Cape Town was named World Design Capital for 2014 on last 26 October, at the International Design Alliance (IDA) Congress in Taipei. The Mother City out bid fellow short-listed cities Dublin and Bilbao.
Ory Okolloh, the Executive Director of Ushahidi , is from Kenya but currently lives in Johannesburg. Her blog is "outlet for her opinions. While it is primarily focused on Kenya, she reserves to write about whatever she wants."
Sokari Ekine is a Nigerian social justice activist living in Spain, with a background in technology, gender issues and human rights. She is interested in creating a community of grassroots African bloggers as a way for Africans to exchange ideas, share experiences and tell their own stories in our own words.
Native of Cape Town, Sean Jacobs lives in Brooklyn, New York and teaches in Manhattan. He obsesses about the relationship between politics and popular culture, but the main rationale for his blog is to comment on what passes for media coverage of the African continent.
Rosebelle Kagumire is an experienced Ugandan Journalist. She won the best Journalist blogger English category at the Panos hosted competition in 2009. Currently she is a student of MA. Media, Conflict and Peace studies at University for Peace (UPEACE), Costa Rica.
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