BEFORE MARVEL dominated every cinema screen and streaming platform, South Africa had its own homegrown hero — and he arrived not through a comic book or a film, but through the crackle of a radio set. Jet Jungle was a sci-fi adventure hero billed as "The Incredible Adventures of the Most Amazing...

THERE is a concept gaining traction in philosophy and critical theory called epistemic injustice — the idea that certain groups are systematically denied credibility as knowledge-holders and witnesses of their own experience. We are familiar with this in the context of racism, where the pain of B...

IN A PIECE entitled The Queen of the Night falls silent — legendary soprano Mimi Coertse dies, writer Herman Lategan introduces a chain of hagiographic fantasy that reduces Coertse's unashamed collaboration and open association with the apartheid regime's lead tenor, Gé Korsten, to a mere "fraugh...

NO SOONER had the principal of the posh girls school, Roedean resigned, following a debacle over tennis, where the school at first refused to play Jewish scholars at King David, "because they were Jewish", then issued a series of communiques before resorting to an embarrassing apology, persons su...

RASHID Lombard was a photojournalist and political photographer at South Press. One of the struggle papers whose pages now form the background header of Medialternatives, right above this piece. Boeta Rashid practically took every image that appeared in the weekly paper, pushing out black and whi...