Issue 109 | The Journalist

Book Review: The List is a page turner

by journalist | Mar 27, 2019 | Books | 1908

This `novel’ has a special place of honour

With his latest book, The List, journalist and author, Barry Gilder has taken the first step towards possibly becoming South Africa’s John Le Carre. Britain’s Le Carre is known for his fascinating stories of espionage and counter espionage against the backdrop of British governance.What Gilder has done with The List is to take the reader into contemporary South African governance providing insights into what could be going on behind the scenes in the murky spaces of national and international politics. Not only does he do this, he also provides scenes that take us back to pre 1994…

Sophia Yilma Deressa

by journalist | Mar 26, 2019 | Pioneers | 3964

Journalist, activist and politician

Ethiopian media legend whose legacy remains engraved in the hearts and minds of her fellow country folks for her social change agency has nerves of steel. Once incarcerated without trial, her parents were imprisoned, her husband was executed for unknown reasons. She endured all this under the Derg regime but continued her unwavering civic activism until independence.

Our habits are destroying the environment

by journalist | Mar 25, 2019 | Spotlight | 1865

From sunscreen to plastic to e-waste, we need to be more conscious

The South African Communications Association partners with The Journalist

by journalist | Mar 25, 2019 | Spotlight | 149

Establishing networks and rewriting history

The Making of the ‘White Karoo’

by journalist | Mar 25, 2019 | Spotlight | 382

Where genocides of the indigenous and their violent subjugation are absent

From business to terrorism, the double edged sword of digital communication

by journalist | Mar 25, 2019 | The Craft | 1152

African regulators work together to harmonise the regulation of creative content

In the age of digital disruptions, with all its possibilities and failures, it is important for us as Africans to protect the African Child, and work together to harmonise our approach to communication of the future.The Film and Publication Board (FPB), and its African counterparts, similar industry regulators across the African continent…

Striking the media gender balance

by journalist | Mar 25, 2019 | The Craft | 2338

Huge strides have been made over the decades – but we’ve yet to cover enough distance.

This month the world celebrated International Women’s Day and this year’s theme is #BalanceforBetter with the hope of moving towards a more gender-balanced world.International Women’s Day (IWD) looks to celebrate the social, economic, cultural and political achievement of women across the globe and marks a call to action for accelerating gender equality.

Ndinethembe: A young lady’s poetic journey of hope

by journalist | Mar 25, 2019 | Books | 2589

In her debut anthology, Mfazwe uses her poetic voice to take the reader on a journey of...

Art exhibition: When Dust Settles

by journalist | Mar 25, 2019 | Art | 328

Weaving together memory and history

Winner of the 2018 Standard Bank Young Artist Award for Visual Art, Igshaan Adams, recently held an exhibition at the Johannes Stegmann gallery in the Free State. In this exhibition Adams presents an eclectic and multi-sensory large-scale installation, bringing together aspects of sculpture, textiles, found objects, furniture and performance in an immersive environment. Nwabisa Timeni spent some time with Adams and reports on their conversation.

Bound to violence: toxic queer masculinities in South African films

by journalist | Mar 25, 2019 | Art | 134

cademic Gibson Ncube considers two South African films, Skoonheid and Inxeba, to study how the films present male protagonists who negotiate their sexuality in conservative societies.

Two South African films Skoonheid and Inxeba, despite their diametrically opposed socio-racial contexts, broach violent and toxic queer masculinities, according to Gibson Ncube, an academic in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literature at the University of Zimbabwe and a fellow at the Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study. Ncube argues that the films present male protagonists who negotiate their sexuality in very conservative societies, Afrikaner in the case of Skoonheid and Xhosa in Inxeba.