Just across the harbour from the relatively safe and affluent area I inhabit in Hout Bay, a suburb of Cape Town, is a colored community whose presence inspires both fear and awe amongst my fellow residents. And the general relationship between the two communities is one driven mainly by mutual suspicion. After 5 years in…
Socio-documentary
The Karoo desert lies in the Northern Cape in South Africa and is a semi-desert region made up of flat scrublands and grasslands, interrupted by ridges of dolorite rock and conical hills. In such a vast expanse whose physical geography has remained largely unchanged for hundreds of millions of years, it would be a…
Nowhere else in the world is the divide between all that is positive and negative with the urban human experience so harshly exposed as it is in the African city space. As cities have continued to expand at an alarming rate that sees no sign of slowing any time soon, governments and local authorities have…