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South African Politician Calls on Mobs to Direct Their Anger at Ruling-Class Whites Instead of Other Africans
The leader of a South African opposition party is making waves for calling on mobs to turn their anger over continued economic disenfranchisement on the country’s wealthy white minority as opposed to foreign African nationals. Johannesburg has been plagued of late by mob violence targeting businesses owned by foreigners from other African countries, Newsweek reports.…
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H&M South Africa Closes All Stores After Activists Trash Stores Over ‘Monkey’ Ad
Updated Sunday, Jan. 14, 2017, 9:15 a.m. EST: H&M has decided to temporarily close all of its stores in South Africa amid protests that have seen several of its stores ransacked by protesters upset at a recent racist ad. CNN reports that H&M has 17 locations in South Africa. “We continue to monitor the situation…
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Wish You Were Here: Afropunk Was the New Year’s Eve Party We All Wanted to Attend
#HolidayEnvy is real, y’all: While the mercury is barely cracking zero degrees in many American cities, it is summer in South Africa, and we can’t think of a better way to ring in 2018 than with the beautiful people at Afropunk Joberg! And the beauties did not disappoint, bringing unparalleled style and statement to Johannesburg,…
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Solange Opens Up About Autonomic Disorder, Cancels New Year’s Eve Afropunk Performance in South Africa
Solange Knowles has spent much of the past year on the road, taking her acclaimed album A Seat at the Table and creating a space for black female art everywhere from the Hollywood Bowl to the Guggenheim Museum. But the year has taken its toll on the 31-year-old singer, who was forced to cancel her headline…