Rick Santorum threw in his two cents on Nelson Mandela's life and works yesterday when he told Bill O'Reilly that just as Mandela fought apartheid, so too does Rick Santorum fight Obamacare. Hoo boy. No. No, Rick Santorum. Obamacare is not like apartheid. That is not how analogies work. Not liking a thing doesn't…
Nelson Mandela — humanitarian, anti-apartheid activist, Nobel Peace Prize winner and South Africa's first black President — died today at age 95. Mandela devoted his life to improving the lives of all disenfranchised groups, but, right now, let's take a look at what Mandela did for women.
Baby dolls displayed in a coffee shop in a trendy area where thousands of tourists visit in Cape Town, South Africa, Saturday, Oct.19, 2013. South Africa's western Cape area is well known for its natural beauty and good restaurant catering fresh products from local farm lands and the ocean. (AP Photo/Schalk van Zuydam)
South African artist Reshma Chhiba has upset some and impressed others for turning a women's jail in Johannesburg previously used to house anti-apartheid activists into a 39 foot high red fabric vagina surrounded by black fabric pubic hair that occasionally screams. You have to take your shoes off to step inside.
CAPE TOWN, South Africa—This is what a North Korean postgame press conference sounds like:
When last we heard from accused murderer and Olympic track star Oscar Pistorius, he was living at his Uncle Arnold’s house in Praetoria, losing endorsement deals, and probably puzzling over the rumor that Ryan Gosling was going to portray him in a far-too-soon true-crime biopic. Tasteless Academy Award puns would…
Just to ensure that human beings have unknowingly consumed EVERY kind of animal who sings "Circle of Life" at the beginning of The Lion King, it looks like South Africans have inadvertently been munching on the horse's swaggier cousin, the zebra, as well as kangaroos and giraffes. Sigh. Just when we were getting över …
It's clearly time to consider gang rape a world epidemic, but one might wish it didn't have to come at such a high cost: In a tragic echo of the deceased 23-year-old New Delhi public bus gang rape victim, 17-year-old Western Cape girl Anene Booysen was found raped and badly mutilated at a construction site in…
A controversy is brewing in South Africa over Nelson Mandela's reported involvement in a clothing line.
A museum in Johannesburg is being sued over a portrait of South Africa's President that depicts the country's leader naked with his wang hanging out. The artist says the painting, called "The Spear," is a highbrow dick joke, protected free speech under South Africa's constitution. But the owner of the schlong in…
An ad featuring a white man and a black woman locked in a naked, Trojan-commercial embrace with the tagline, "In OUR future, you wouldn't look twice," has given all the dormant racists in post-apartheid South Africa something to gripe about this week. The ad, which the youth wing of the Democratic Alliance party…
South African Public Enterprises Minister Malusi Gigaba tweeted at another government official, "Let's talk about the slut walk. Now, I wanna attend as an observer. Might get lucky." A spokesman claimed he didn't understand that SlutWalk was about sexual assault awareness. An estimated 2,000 women attended the Cape…
Remember that Idaho pharmacist that refused to dispense an anti-uterine bleeding drug until she found out whether or not the woman had an abortion? The same battle is being waged daily around the world, only with access to misoprostol.
Welcome back to Midweek Madness, in which Margaret and I brave the blustery wilds of the celebrity tabloids in search of cozy gossip. This week, we are forever changed by the unholy spectacle that is the "official" Kardashian Christmas portrait.
Of the men who admitted to committing rape, one third did not feel guilty about what they'd done. I wonder what Privilege Denying Dude has to say about this.
[India, October 5: Jennifer Mbali Khwela of South Africa in action on the vault during the Women's Artistic Gymnastics Qualification during day two of the Delhi 2010 Commonwealth Games. Image via Getty.]
[Johannesburg, June 24. Image via AP]
[Pretoria, South Africa; June 23. Image via Getty]
