Books & Magazines

A selection of drawings depicting real-life case studies of gender-based violence. All illustrations originally appeared in the legal manual Street Law South Africa (Juta & Co, 2015). Find out more Teenage girls set up a satirical website to humiliate boys. A man tries to kiss a woman he doesn’t know at a music festival. A father […]

Quick coffee, fast food, and even faster eco-politico-emotico ‘slacktivism’ — it’s all here at the Slacktivist Café. Here are some excerpts: If you want proof of why humans will never be able to agree, all you have to do is visit one of the multiple e-petition sites. The things people want to change about the

More than three decades after its original publication in the early 1980s, a new consolidated edition of Street Law South Africa was recently published by Juta and Company Ltd., featuring 20 new N.D. Mazin drawings mainly on gender themes (this aspect of South African law was thoroughly revised in the early 2000s) alongside more than

Published in 2013, The Legend of Blue Mamba is a wild and wacky look at the South African surfing scene, wrapped up in a horror comic about the commercial exploitation of surf culture and the plundering of our coastal resources. The story began in 1995 in African Soul Surfer, a short-lived Durban surf mag, and

They have the world’s worst job but serve an important social function. They are pressure valves, helping people release their pent-up aggression. The army of telemarketers, the spam mail of the cellular world, invade your day with “exclusive offers” – and allow you to take your bad day out on them. It’s not surprising cold

  Here’s an excerpt: A soap opera is like a worm. Each episode is a segment of a never ending  non-arthropod invertebrate. At the front end is the story department. The business of the story department is the imagining of the worm. Once or twice a year the story department meets to plot the long

Here’s an excerpt: ‘What is the truth, Granma?’ ‘Tell me why are we vanishing.’ I know the answer to this. It’s common wisdom, passed from newt to newt in every nursery. ‘Because of the hadedas, Granma. They followed us to the suburbs and will not stop until they have picked every last one of us