EyeKhala, or inyanga yeKhala, is the isiXhosa name for July. The month when the aloes bloom. This video celebrates winter in the southern hemisphere, with footage from the Eastern and Western Cape Provinces. youtu.be/_4oZo3HLeGM?...

Newish music video for an oldish song. In Afrikaans, videography and editing by Hanné Koster. I've added the bits with campfires. There's an English version available called "My Promise". youtu.be/s473IHCCCPg?...

Playlist with songs about Johannesburg - mostly Afrikaans. youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Music video for a new version of an old Afrikaans standard - the title track from Koos du Plessis' first album "Skadu's teen die muur". The video is a combination of timelapse videography and footage from old films. The images of the house from a farm near Barrydale. youtu.be/bJ9lhza_xUs?...

Afrikaans spoken word playlist on YouTube. youtube.com/playlist?lis...

The band has a new video out. youtu.be/QE43-jg8xOs?...

Interview by AJ Opperman on my new album "Op soek na Koos Doep". Paywall - for subscribers of Netwerk24. www.netwerk24.com/kunste/koos-...

New music video for an old song by the band. About history and complicity and skeletons in closets. An Afrikaans song. youtu.be/mZZoMJehzaY?...

Quirky and funny and quite lovely. "Mamma mia" becomes "Mama wami". I also like the mbaqanga style guitar work as conversation with the original. Zulu steam punk moments, or something like that. youtu.be/gbljPQbxtTQ?...

New music video from my album "Op soek na Koos Doep", the title track from Koos du Plessis' third album, released in 1982. I've amped it up from folk to folk rock with a bit with percussion. Footage from the farm Matjiesfontein near Nieuwoudville. youtu.be/pAiKfFX8HKA?...

The band's rock 'n roll tunes. Want vandag was kak. open.spotify.com/playlist/2VP...

The band has a new video out. youtu.be/p45eSgi3ors?...

A new album: Covers of songs by the legendary Afrikaans singer-songwriter Koos du Plessis. Mostly his own compositions, but also lyrics put to music by his daughter Karla and me. Koos du Plessis died in 1984 and would have been 80 years old this year. distrokid.com/hyperfollow/...

New solo music video. Cover of the Koos du Plessis song "Jantjie van die Berge". youtu.be/XFLoK6lwYrc?...

LESOTHO: Mass lay-offs at Lesotho garment factories as US tariffs bite groundup.org.za/article/mass...

The band has a new video, an edit of "The Grapes of Wrath" (1940) alongside a South African story told in Afrikaans. youtu.be/5u7fLwnbr1I?...

Updated playlist with my songs, some solo, some with the band. Mostly Afrikaans, but a few English ones as well. open.spotify.com/playlist/4DF...

Today, I am proud to be a South African. Sometimes, we are the most obnoxious people in the room, but when it matters, we get together, despite our differences, and make our argument, calmly, deliberately, and with conviction.

Interview on Afrikaans radio on Afrikaner "refugees" in the US. omny.fm/shows/op-en-...

20th anniversary of the release of this song, now with a video. About the future and the impossibility of dealing with one's past. Scenes from movies from the first half of the previous century. "Fortuinverteller" [Fortune teller], by the Brixton Moord en Roof Orkes. youtu.be/VJYFYir7-3o

Afrikaner "refugees from genocide" in the US? Here I am, an Afrikaner, at the graduation ceremony of the University of Fort Hare, South Africa's oldest Black university. On stage is an Afrikaner dean. The crowd is singing an Afrikaans song in celebration of their degrees. Genocide? I think not.

The band has a new video for an old song (from 2022) made from a very, very old movie (from 1925). We have a bit of an old movie obsession right now. The lyrics are in Afrikaans, comical take on a confident guy who gets his ass kicked by a dom. youtu.be/DrV2EvCq9jg?...

Our latest podcast is a Workers Day Special. I loved doing this story with a trade union veteran about the crucial and massive 1986 May Day stay away in South Africa. We also had lots of laughs, including at the expense of a self-important mall security boss. #tradeunion #WorkersDay #labor

New recording and music video, Afrikaans song with words by Koos du Plessis and melody by my sister-in-law Karla du Plessis. The album, a tribute to the late Koos du Plessis, will be released on 31 July 2025. The video contains old movie footage from the 1940s and before. youtu.be/HARoTpFqD8w?...

Recording of a memorial for Michael Burawoy at the University of the Witwatersrand, as well as the launch of a new edition of Eddie Webster's classic book "Cast in a racial mould" (1985) for which Michael wrote a new preface, sent to the publisher the day before he died. youtube.com/live/s_RGck2...

Thank you Wits University Press for re-publishing this classic. New foreword Michael Burawoy.

Spot on Max, and on Stigtingsdag nogal. As a white Afrikaner, I can claim asylum in Trump’s America. What an absurdity | Max du Preez www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

When you paint the abyss...

"But, as witnessed with the aid cuts, arguing about the human impact or fairness will not fly in the current set-up, in the face of 'disruptive populism and post-fact, post-truth society', Dr Kituyi argues." www.bbc.com/news/article...

Lesotho, classified as a "least developed country", exported garments to the US under the US's Africa Growth and Opportunities Act (AGOA). The industry sustained around 30k jobs - important for such a small country. Slapping a 50% import duty on them is either ignorant or cruel, or both.

Still love this song: ‘I’d been singing the wrong word for 30 years’: Deacon Blue on how they made Dignity www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...

Ralph Rabie, aka Johannes Kerkorrel, Afrikaans singer and anti-apartheid activist, was born on 27 March 1960. He died 42 years later. I'm thinking of him today - this song is a tribute to him and the generation of Voelvry. youtu.be/ts0FoiLu_uI?...

Autumn mornings in eDikeni, Amathole Mountains in the background.

MEMORIAL for Michael #Burawoy and the RELAUNCH of 'Cast in a Racial Mould' by Eddie #Webster April 1st Tuesday, 16:00-19:00: Hybrid Event #Sociology @WitsWiSER @Wits_SCIS @WitsUniversity @iNIHSS

New music video - about skateboards, history, and Johannesburg. youtu.be/BwmxYvTynLo?...

What we're doing at the University of Fort Hare next week. www.ufh.ac.za/news/ufh-to-...

Friends from the Eastern Cape! I would like to invite you to attend an exhibition and colloquium titled “Juxtaposition and Value: Critical approaches to the Water-Energy-Food Nexus.” The linked website there has more detail on the programme. www.ecoimagining.org/events/juxta...

Visual account of a fun project I was involved in - mural art exploring the connection between water, energy and food. youtu.be/ErPszVdSXhk

New music video, filmed at Broederstroom Farm just to the north of Graaff-Reinet in the Karoo. About escapist promises that are impossible to keep. youtu.be/qPHrrUuJqvI?...

New music video from our band. In memory of Drikus Barnard, today would have been his birthday. "Einde van dae" means "End of days". Rough translation of a stanza: There's a disco on the highway Lights only, no music They wear orange jackets Perhaps it's retro-chique m.youtube.com/watch?v=0e0I...

Well, there you have it. A whole Afrikaans video-album - eleven tracks. brixtonmoordenrooforkes.co.za/2023/11/22/s...

Such a good idea! In South Africa, such a service would be called "OumAI". m.youtube.com/watch?v=yVti...

The story of a unique Johannesburg drive-in theatre. An Afrikaans song, but English text that tells the story. #afrikaansemusiek #johannesburg m.youtube.com/watch?v=-aIo...

The best translated fiction – review roundup

Breyten Breytenbach obituary, published in the Mail & Guardian. #breytenbreytenbach mg.co.za/friday/2024-...

Almost weekend. A nostalgic tune about being young and falling in love in the suburbs. This one located in Nahoon, a suburb of East London of South Africa's Eastern Cape Province. There's also an Afrikaans version of this song. Refs to an East London band called Ballyhoo. youtu.be/nB27D5MwziY?...

RIP Breyten Breytenbach. A paintings I made to celebrate his birthday in 2011, accompanied by an Afrikaans poem: versindaba.co.za/2011/09/16/a...

RIP Breyten Breytenbach, a.k.a. Buiteblaf, Jan Afrika. One of the greatest Afrikaans poets and painters.