Hauling Humans: a tricky business for trans-border truckers
Veteran long-distance driver, Aden, has been witness and participant in the business of smuggling people around Southern Africa. He lets Sean Christie in on some of the basics. “That’s funny man,” says Aden, still shaking his head about it. “I thought you were Migration Services.” That isn’t the funny thing, or all of it. Aden […]
Itineraries
These maps by Philippe Rekacewicz show how the phenomenon of migration relates to the issue of political borders. They are not ‘finalised’ maps, but rather rough preparatory drafts, the provisional character of which attests to the nature of the border itself: ambivalent and paradoxical (it divides as much as it unites). Borders are difficult to map […]
Relaxing
Okello Sam, a dance and theatre artist (amongst other things), examines the conceptual difference between work and relaxation as differently applied in the so-called First and Third Worlds. For more on Okello Sam, visit Hope North.
Letters to Hillbrow
As part of a walk-in research project inspired by the novels Welcome to My Hillbrow (Phaswane Mpe) and The Quiet Violence of Dreams (K Sello Duiker), as well as Moses Taiwa Molelekwa’s solo-album Darkness Pass, the Johannesburg-based Keleketla! Library invited participating schoolchildren to write letters starting with the phrase “Dear Hillbrow”. The letter below is […]
Monica Maxwell and Samson Botsotso
Scamming the scammers? Though a buzzing of charades, of tall tales, of puns, insinuations, accusations, lamentations, epistles, epigrams, bank statements, lawyers letters, Christian gospel choirs, ejaculating hallelujahs, political tracts, polemics, Afrikan Soul Rhetoric, violent sweats, the gnashing of teeth , circling vultures, woes that stun the souls of the living, the agony of balls and […]