All by Pheladi Sethusa
In Cape Town, a city as breathtakingly beautiful as it is brutal, a young man leads a daring urban revolution at the intersection of political and property power. Doc Weekly writer Pheladi Sethusa had the chance to see the documentary Mother City by Miki Redelinghuys and Pearlie Joubert in Johannesburg during a screening hosted by the Ahmed Kathrada Foundation.
African Apocalypse is a harrowing journey through the colonial past and its inevitable hangover in present-day Niger, West Africa. Femi Nylander traces the steps of a little known French captain, Paul Voulet, who unleashed wanton terror on several communities along the Niger-Nigeria border, leaving a trail of dead bodies in the wake of his unclear quest.
