Searching for Augusto Zita
From the Namib desert to an interrogation room on US soil, Victor Gama tracks Augusto Zita and inadvertently uncovers South Africa’s nuclear weapons programme. In March 2012 I travelled to Chicago to premiere my recent work, Vela 6911, composed on a commission by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. On arrival at Chicago O’Hare from Portugal I was stopped at immigration. Despite […]
The Black Guru
Gael Reagon meets the spirit formerly known as Zebulon Dread. On Friday 18 July, when most South Africans enact their humanity through a ritualised act of charity under the rubric of Mandela Day, the indomitable art iconoclast Zebulon Dread, purveyor of the self-published satirical magazine Hei Voetsek!, returns to public life and consciousness after a […]
The cosmic lives and afterlives of Zebulon Dread
by Achal Prabhala Part 1: Elliot Josephs Elliot Josephs was born in 1958 to an ordinarily dysfunctional family in Kensington, a working-class coloured neighbourhood between Maitland and Goodwood in Cape Town. When he was four, his parents, who worked as labourers in the city, were allotted a home in Bonteheuwel, in the Cape Flats, to […]
11 YRS OF DEMONCRAZY!!!
11 YRS OF DEMONCRAZY!!! O nee Got.!! Got!!! Got!! ! I can’t help it. Scream!!! Aaaaaaaaaaaamnrrrrrggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!! I could not Motherfucken Ma-se Poes resist it. I hate this magazine. I love this magazine. This magazine gives me nightmares. Eleven years of Demon-crazy. Demo crazy!!! 11 years of freedom need the DREAD anal-isis. Deciphering the profanity of […]
Historieda
In his letter from Agolam, Yvan Alagbé riffs off a recent visit to the Angoulême International Comics Festival in France to challenge comics, what they are, what they do, what they can do, even what they’re willing to address as a form. In opaque frames that explode the frame and using text-as-subtext, Alagbé highlights an […]