2019 marked a significant milestone in the longstanding partnership between Boiler Room X Ballantine’s True Music with the introduction of the True Music Fund; an initiative launched to support the global music underground. As Boiler Room X Ballentine’s True music continues to champion True Music artists, fans and crews around the world, The True Music…
It’s safe to say that in 2020 podcasts have officially solidified their place in the mainstream. At this point, there are almost as many podcasts as there are jokes about everyone having a podcast. Even Michelle Obama has her own podcast, and your uncle who makes his own toothpaste to avoid mind control through fluoride,…
The story and history of skateboarding, its boldly creative subculture and its community of shredding misfit toys; is often told through an incredibly patriarchal lens. A lens usually centralising a blue-eyed, shaggy blonde-haired and tatted up bro. From the movie “Lord’s of Dogtown”, written by Stacy Peralta—surfer turned skateboarding legend and member of the iconic…
The gaming industry in South Africa has undergone a massive growth spurt over the past five years. South African gamers collected R3.79 million ($220 000) in prize money playing e-sports last year and that excludes sponsorship and endorsement. It is becoming a lucrative industry but women are incredibly underrepresented. According to a survey conducted by…
*Content Warning: this article discusses gendered violence, femcide, rape and murder August ninth marked the celebration of South Africa’s history-changing women’s march of 1956. On this day approximately 20 000 women across the country’s racialised communities marched to the Union Buildings in Pretoria—mobilised in protest and petition against the country’s pass laws that required individuals…
The unlearning process itself can be isolating and hard, when navigating the decolonial process we often encounter obstacles and boundaries in the face of others and within our inherited patterns. Accepting that not everyone—yet—has the capacity to do this work. We join together and reach one another in this sacred space. Let’s all be companions…
Donald Trump’s political career is rooted in a fanatical fanbase of supporters, who have an intense personal connection with his toxic personality along with his racist and xenophobic ideology. Along with the public spectacle of public rallies, his 2016 Presidential campaign used social media campaigning (including extensive covert data mining) to successfully win the American…
Across the country and globe there is a visceral sense of frustration propelled by an urgent need for change on a structural and institutional level, even within our economic spheres. South Africa with its complicated history and its inheritance of a segregated economy at the dawn of democracy is no exception. Being declared the most…
It is day 49 of lockdown and uncertainty has become our daily bread. Each day we wake up to try again in this new normal. What is certain though, is that there has been increased usage of social media platforms and apps by the South African online community and even more certain than this is…
Moffie, the fourth feature of South African director Oliver Hermanus, is a coruscating look into the violent pathology and poisonous toxic masculinity of white South African society during apartheid. The film, whose stark and shocking title comes from a derogatory homophobic slur, is set in the early 1980s and follows the life of military conscript…
It goes without saying that the current global pandemic and its subsequent economic impacts have hit the pockets of individuals globally in a significant manner and in the South African context, one of the industries that has been most severely effected is our creative sector. The economic implications of the current global viral outbreak have…
The UK Acid House movement of the late 80s is synonymous with fevered hedonism. The peace and love experience – fuelled by copious amounts of Ecstasy – and day-glo painted illegal raves, where thousands of dancers congregated in fields and warehouses. However, this youth culture scene also had an element of serious and transgressive political…
