What Happens When the Body is The Obstacle to Humanity?

by Tristan Gevers

Everybody knows apparently

I must just be a transparency

The thing I’ve been hiding so hopelessly is

That I just want this bitch to notice me

These are words that come from the band Just Jack’s song, ‘Doctor, Doctor’. It is a feeling that most of us have experienced and can relate to. That social situation, where there is that incredible individual that may be drawing the attention of the crowd. He or she may just be drawing the attention of a few, or it may just be you. You try to catch their attention, try to be noticeable. It seems that nothing you do can catch their attention, nothing you do can get them to notice you. You keep trying.

Tunisia, Egypt, Libya. Grahamstown?

by Tristan Gevers, The Daily Dispatch

TODAY - October 15 - has been declared World Revolution Day and various
groups have organised "occupation" in many cities around the world,
including in South Africa.

According to the Occupy South Africa webpage, "occupation" will occur from
about 8am on World Revolution Day, and there will be "movements" in
Johannesburg, Cape Town, Durban, Grahamstown and East London.

A Review of Michael Neocosmos's 'From ‘Foreign Natives’ to ‘Native Foreigners’'

by Tristan Gevers 

Title: From ‘Foreign Natives’ to ‘NativeForeigners’: Explaining Xenophobia in Post-apartheid South Africa:Citizenship and Nationalism, Identity and Politics

Author: Michael Neocosmos 

Publisher: Council for the Development of Social Sciences Research in Africa 

Year of Publication: 2010 

Pages: 172 (including Notes, Bibliography and List of Interviews) 

ISBN: 978-2-86978-307-2

The Revolutions in North Africa and the Middle East are Just the First Step

by Tristan Gevers, The Star

As rebels moved into Tripoli, Libya’s capital, Barrack Obama said that “The Gaddafi regime is showing signs of collapsing. The people of Libya are showing that the universal pursuit of dignity and freedom is far stronger than the iron fist of a dictator”. Months before, in January of this year, the Tunisian President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali was ousted. Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak met a similar fate in February. There have been movements – successful or not - in Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Algeria and Syria amongst other places.