Saturday, 3 June 2023
Sean Jacobs is the founder and editor of ‘Africa Is a Country’. He is interested in the politics and history of sport.
In Cape Town Islam is often racially fraught. On occasion it has even been misused as an alibi for racism.
The documentary Mutant presents a portrait of the rapper that, while unmuted, is strangely silent about many questions of coloured identity and his version of it.
The media provides a window into the transition from a society organised around apartheid and opposition to it to an individualist, capitalist, consumerist and aspirational reality.