A visual journey by Dutch photographer Pieter Boersma Nowhere in Africa has a colonial occupation left more footprints than in Namiba. While the German occupying power only lasted three decades (1884 – 1915), the country is still full of sites that commemorate a gruesome history. After reading a detailed reconstruction of the genocide of that horrendous era, Dutch photographer Pieter Boersma visited many places of destruction … and celebration. The genocide of the Namibian Herero and Nama people...
A visual journey by Dutch photographer Pieter Boersma Nowhere in Africa has a colonial occupation left more footprints than in Namiba. While the German...
Anton Corbijn: "I am extremely excited that the work has found a home in Cape Town." As an expression of our appreciation for the achievements of Artscape in turning this former exclusively white bastion into a meeting place for all people, ZAM has donated a print of the artwork Mandela Landscape to the theatre. ZAM values its partnership with Artscape as a celebration of the power of arts and culture in building just and equal societies. Mandela Landscape, an art piece by photographer Anton...
Anton Corbijn: "I am extremely excited that the work has found a home in Cape Town." As an expression of our appreciation for the achievements of...
ZAM latest Photo Editions covers the work of Capetonian photographer Yasser Booley. This is a result of the collaboration between ZAM, the photographer, his curator Joan Legalamitlwa and Africalia . The visuals are chosen from Booley's recently published collection, South Africa at Liberty , an Africalia edition. Click here to view Photo Editions #2 with Yasser Booley. A touring exhibition presents a selection of 40 photos of Yasser Booley from the book South Africa at Liberty. Interested galleries...
ZAM latest Photo Editions covers the work of Capetonian photographer Yasser Booley. This is a result of the collaboration between ZAM, the photographer,...
Read the full article in English here . Op zoek naar het koffie-met-melk-paradijs In februari dit jaar opent in het Rijksmuseum een tentoonstelling over vier eeuwen van relaties tussen Nederland en Zuid-Afrika. Dat land was eerst niet meer dan een ‘verversingsstation’ voor het schip van Jan van Riebeeck; later, lang nadat deze zijn haag van bittere amandelen had geplant om de ‘inboorlingen’ van zijn kolonie weg te houden, werd het officieel het land van apartheid. Nog later, tijdens en na de anti...
Read the full article in English here . Op zoek naar het koffie-met-melk-paradijs In februari dit jaar opent in het Rijksmuseum een tentoonstelling over...
Hoe de Zuid-Afrikaanse studentenbeweging tot zwijgen werd gebracht In februari dit jaar opent in het Rijksmuseum een tentoonstelling over vier eeuwen van relaties tussen Nederland en Zuid-Afrika. Dat land was eerst niet meer dan een ‘verversingsstation’ voor het schip van Jan van Riebeeck; later, lang nadat deze zijn haag van bittere amandelen had geplant om de ‘inboorlingen’ van zijn kolonie weg te houden, werd het officieel het land van apartheid. Nog later, tijdens en na de anti...
Hoe de Zuid-Afrikaanse studentenbeweging tot zwijgen werd gebracht In februari dit jaar opent in het Rijksmuseum een tentoonstelling over vier eeuwen van...
'The unveiling of Mandela Landscape hails the beginning of an exciting partnership between the Artscape Theatre Centre and ZAM Magazine towards creative excellence.' This is what Artscape's CEO Marlene le Roux writes in a 'thank you letter' to ZAM. On February 16, 2017, a lithographic print of Mandela Landscape , a piece of art created by Dutch photographer and filmmaker Anton Corbijn and visual artist Berend Strik in support of ZAM, found its way into the Artscape's public hall, on view for...
'The unveiling of Mandela Landscape hails the beginning of an exciting partnership between the Artscape Theatre Centre and ZAM Magazine towards creative...
On 16 March 2017, South African documentary photographer, Yasser Booley embarked on a public transport journey from Cape Town, South Africa to Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Booley travels with various forms of public transport such as trains, buses and taxis with the mission to capture and learn about the countries and the people who travel across the borders on a regular basis using these transports. During this travel he hopes to connect with the man in the street. The two-week journey is part of a...
On 16 March 2017, South African documentary photographer, Yasser Booley embarked on a public transport journey from Cape Town, South Africa to Dar es...
No one would have thought that it would be Kgalema Motlanthe, -decent, non-descript, perhaps even boring, former South African president Kgalema Motlanthe-, who would issue the call to arms for South Africans to get rid of Jacob Zuma’s mafia state. But it was he who ended the speech that saw five thousand funeral mourners -from sage Muslim men in dresses and caps to African youth excitedly waving a South African Communist Party flag to white NGO types to grey anti-apartheid struggle veterans- rise...
No one would have thought that it would be Kgalema Motlanthe, -decent, non-descript, perhaps even boring, former South African president Kgalema...
De fake strijd van de nieuwe elite Vlak voor zijn ontslag door Zuid-Afrika’s president Jacob Zuma legde voormalig minister van financiën Pravin Gordhan nog aan Evelyn Groenink uit hoe Frantz Fanon, de anti-koloniale denker, al waarschuwde tegen het populisme van de ‘kleinburgerij,’ die na het vertrek van de kolonisten de staat zou overnemen onder het roepen van slogans ‘voor het gewone volk.’ “Ze doen alsof ze de belangen van de armen vertegenwoordigen, maar ze verdedigen slechts hun eigen belang,”...
De fake strijd van de nieuwe elite Vlak voor zijn ontslag door Zuid-Afrika’s president Jacob Zuma legde voormalig minister van financiën Pravin Gordhan...
The new movie about South African lawyer and leader of the Communist Party, Bram Fischer, could not have come at a better time. This Dutch-South African co-production, directed by Jean van de Velde, tells the story of a man who did not become legendary like his client, Nelson Mandela, but who was one of the key people in the fight for democracy in that country in the fifties and sixties. {youtube}https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRNEaoX-SKQ {/youtube} Bram Fischer managed to reconcile his white...
The new movie about South African lawyer and leader of the Communist Party, Bram Fischer, could not have come at a better time. This Dutch-South African...
As in the old days of Apartheid, Nelson Mandela is still portrayed as an evil force in some Flemish circles, the writer Tom Lanoye argued is the Hugo Claus Lecture he delivered mid-March in Anvers. Lanoye presents a long list of high ranking collaborators with a system once declared a crime against humanity by the United Nations. Read a summary in Dutch here .
As in the old days of Apartheid, Nelson Mandela is still portrayed as an evil force in some Flemish circles, the writer Tom Lanoye argued is the Hugo...
25 projects engaging with the African continent or its diaspora have made it to the shortlist of this years' Contemporary African Photography Prize (CAP). The works of as many photographers from the continent or elsewhere will be judged by an internationally sourced panel. The five winners will be announced at the Image Afrique Festival in Basel, Switzerland in June 2017. In this newsletter ZAM presents twenty four pictures by photographers from Nairobi, Addis Abeba, Marrakech, Johannesburg,...
25 projects engaging with the African continent or its diaspora have made it to the shortlist of this years' Contemporary African Photography Prize...
This month, two and a half years after Gerald Kraak's death, his novel Shadow Play will be launched in South Africa. A story of subterfuge, betrayal, risk and deep bonds of friendship formed during a time of struggle and pain in Amsterdam and London, where Kraak lived as a political exile, and by way of flashbacks in South Africa. The novel has been posthumously completed and edited by Alison Lowry. ZAM published extracts from the manuscript in October 2015 . Read more about the book on the website...
This month, two and a half years after Gerald Kraak's death, his novel Shadow Play will be launched in South Africa. A story of subterfuge, betrayal,...
Rebelleren met de Grondwet in de hand De tegenkrachten tegen het rijk van Jacob Zuma in Zuid-Afrika worden, getuige de demonstraties van april dit jaar en de steeds nauwere samenwerking door organisaties van de oppositie, steeds luider en talrijker. Zij worden daarbij bovendien in de rug gesteund door een wel zeer machtig wapen: de Grondwet die gelijkheid en rechtvaardigheid voor allen garandeert. In de oorlog die, a la Star Wars, nu gaande is tussen foute machthebbers en een brede alliantie van...
Rebelleren met de Grondwet in de hand De tegenkrachten tegen het rijk van Jacob Zuma in Zuid-Afrika worden, getuige de demonstraties van april dit jaar...
In a quest to reposition the African continent’s brand through new visual imagery and discourse, and helped by his journalism and advertising past, Ghanaian photographer Nana Kofi Acquah will take charge of the ZAM Instagram account for a week. Kofi Acquah has worked across Africa, is a member of the Instagram feed @EverydayAfrica, an assignment photographer for Getty Images, and the first recipient of the Tim Hetherington and World Press Photo Fellowship. We have never been so excited to be pushed...
In a quest to reposition the African continent’s brand through new visual imagery and discourse, and helped by his journalism and advertising past,...
In de loopgraven van de corruptie Soms komen de dingen langs een omweg tot ons. En soms duurt het nog langer voordat we die dingen beseffen. Als B. me -we schrijven begin 2015- vanuit Nederland belt met de vraag of ik me die-en-die nog herinner uit de antiapartheidsbeweging, een Amsterdamse mede-activist, begin ik goedgeluimd met het ophalen van anekdotes, maar mijn gesprekspartner is daar niet voor in de stemming. “Hij zegt dat iemand vermoord is. Een goede vriend van hem uit Port Elizabeth.” Het...
In de loopgraven van de corruptie Soms komen de dingen langs een omweg tot ons. En soms duurt het nog langer voordat we die dingen beseffen. Als B. me...
Pascale Lamche's new documentary on Winnie Mandela will be in Dutch cinemas from June 22nd. In 2004, Pascale Lamche directed Accused #1: Nelson Mandela , a documentary about the Rivonia Trial that featured exclusive interviews with Nelson Mandela and all surviving co-accused. Now, Lamche revisits the Mandelas in her latest documentary “Winnie,” which premiered at this year’s Sundance Film Festival. Lamche sees Winnie Mandela as a highly misunderstood female political figure who, while her husband...
Pascale Lamche's new documentary on Winnie Mandela will be in Dutch cinemas from June 22nd. In 2004, Pascale Lamche directed Accused #1: Nelson Mandela...
An exhibition revisiting the relationship between The Netherlands and South Africa in the Amsterdam Rijksmuseum elicited much controversy. ZAM editor-in-chief Bart Luirink reviews Goede Hoop on his blog .
An exhibition revisiting the relationship between The Netherlands and South Africa in the Amsterdam Rijksmuseum elicited much controversy. ZAM...
Congratulations to all winners of the CAP Prize 2017 : Emmanuelle Andrianjafy (Madagascar, based in Senegal), Girma Berta (Ethiopia), Lebohang Kganye (South Africa), Fethi Sahraoui (Algeria) and Georges Senga (DR Congo). Want to see their work? Follow instagram.com/zammagazine/ .
Congratulations to all winners of the CAP Prize 2017 : Emmanuelle Andrianjafy (Madagascar, based in Senegal), Girma Berta (Ethiopia), Lebohang Kganye...
A transnational investigation by the African Investigative Publishing Collective "We are in a national security crisis." The road to Empaemu in Kwahu East district in Ghana has narrowed so that only motorbikes can pass. Ruins of homes made of mud and bricks have been washed away with no sign of their owners. A basic school which used to boast of over 200 pupils houses only rodents now. Nana Kwaku Ansong (58), traditional ruler of Empaemu and his subjects have become refugees in their own lands....
A transnational investigation by the African Investigative Publishing Collective "We are in a national security crisis." The road to Empaemu in Kwahu...
A transnational investigation by the African Investigative Publishing Collective “I wake up every day ready to fight to survive” The Shebelle river flows into Somalia from Ethiopia, through the regional capital Beledweyne further into the Hiran region, down to Buluboorde and beyond. Many farmers tend crops of maize, wheat, millet and peas on the land alongside it. But the cattle in the area need food too, and often herders allow them to feed on the green saplings, which the farmers can’t allow. As...
A transnational investigation by the African Investigative Publishing Collective “I wake up every day ready to fight to survive” The Shebelle river flows...
