An interesting blog from South Africa, discussing the violence happening in Johannesburg at the moment:
it is, as you can expect from the title, by a British ex-pat. But despite the title, it seems pretty balanced:
6000 miles from civilization
[update]Another blog that I haven't gotten to read enough of yet. It's written by a Zimbabwaen student in South Africa:
Sherp
About Me
- De.Corday
- Charlote de Corday, a figure of the French Revolution, was a rebel against the rebellion, an individual in a war of sides. Charlotte de Corday has thus become my nom de guerre as an individual caught up in a world that speaks in borders rather than content. I am quite simply a student of philosophy and theories of government, a musician and a coffee addict, returned to my native urban New Jersey to find a place rapidly gentrifying, changing, growing--whatever you want to call it, only to move to Brooklyn and act as the other side of that coin. I am trying to make art after four years of academy, trying to feel for an ever elusive home... also trying to keep my car running. Trying to live and work and create in a way that each is copacetic to the other two. I currently write freelance and work for a newspaper in Lower Manhattan.
2 comments:
Oh, it's ever so balanced.
Trouble is, I'm not really sure what it's balanced between...
I must say I'm quite engrossed in your blog, despite the work I'm supposed to be doing right now.
It's horrifying and terribly sobering, what's been going on. I did a fair amount of undergraduate research on the reconciliation process in South Africa... To see that the army's been called out again feels, from this side of the ocean, at once hopeful that there'll be some order, and surprising that the situation reached such a level.
I don't trust the media over here worth a damn... has this been brewing for a while or is it genuinely somewhat of a new tension? Hell of a question, I know.
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