South Africa

  • From Dust We Spin

    From Dust We Spin

    CULTURE: The smoke and noise of Cape Flats racing culture.

  • After Oil

    After Oil

    OIL: Boima Tucker travels from a ministerial stage to an informal settlement in Mathare, tracing how Africa's shift away from oil still runs on old patterns of who benefits and who absorbs the cost.

  • War, fear and decolonialization

    War, fear and decolonialization

    INTERVIEW: Director Johan Grimonprez has for more than 25 years worked with documentaries that addresses power, media and manipulations trough his more essayistic style. His latest film, Soundtrack to a Coup d’État, was screened at Thessaloniki Documentary Film Festival – where he garnered the audience award for best documentary

  • Jazz hands

    Jazz hands

    GEOPOLITICS: How jazz music played a role in political manoeuvres during the Cold War.

  • «You may end up with the only peace – being the peace of the graveyard.»

    «You may end up with the only peace – being the peace of the graveyard.»

    INTERVIEW: We are talking with the previous Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn, the man who could have been prime minister in Britain, about current issues – like military build-up, Ukraine, Israel, climate justice and labour, security, democracy, citizen assemblies, and not least of all, hope for the future.

  • Private game reserves – a business concept for species conservation

    Private game reserves – a business concept for species conservation

    SOUTH AFRICA: Around 500 South African game reserves represent a spectacular marketplace. But after thirty years, Shamwari Private Game Reserve, for example, now has seven luxury lodges, an explorer camp, a learning centre, a rehabilitation station for young, abandoned or injured animals - and not least a police unit to combat poaching.

  • Green electricity from Africa

    Green electricity from Africa

    NAMINIA: Dependence on Russian gas, Putin's war of aggression in Ukraine, and provoked supply crises have put energy at the center of European politics. But in Namibia, the plan is now to focus on 'green' electricity where seawater is desalinated and produces hydrogen through electrolysis.

  • «I think there’s a real need to see new faces»

    «I think there’s a real need to see new faces»

    SUNNY SIDE OF THE DOC: Director of Strategy & Development Mathieu Béjot on the La Rochelle market's 33rd edition.

  • A rigged election in Zimbabwe

    A rigged election in Zimbabwe

    POLITICS: With the country at a crossroads, Zimbabwe attempts to hold its first post-Mugabe elections.

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