Essays, reports, and visual studies. Arranged with classical editorial pressure instead of infinite-feed drift.
King Shaka Made No Appeals Heritage, Resistance, and the Death of South African Militancy By: Leo Vanzini Heritage Day. Where South Africans quit bitching and moaning about the country, death and taxes to rub their Rands together and partake in the nation’s favourite pass-time. Braai. Where we unite around a fire to dr
Toilet Bowl Astronomy The Blood Moon Approaches The Blood Moon will appear soon. Locked away in the bathroom, my griping stomach the culprit. The evening air wafts through the window frame bringing a cool touch to my sweating head. I’m the last in the house. Everyone has left into the garden with heads craned up in a
CONFIDENTIAL Report Classification: INTERNAL DISCLOSURE – FULL TRANSPARENCY MODE Audit Period: Q3 2024 – Ongoing Collapse Cycle Prepared By: Discontent Operations Division Review Status: LIVE DOCUMENTATION – SUBJECT TO REAL-TIME MUTATION Operational Overview Presentation Video Brief: Stakeholder Introduction to Discont
By Leo Vanzini The food is shit or will invariably become shit. CursedBrudda, a twenty-something-year-old British lad, is tearing up the YouTube and Instagram food-content game. He looks like a rejected Channel 4 Skins protagonist (for being too on the nose), and with tats like an American mumble rapper his unapologeti
By Leo Vanzini To love is to be human. Curated Connections is an events company that offers South African singles an in-person alternative to the bleak mire that is dating apps.Like those apps, like any tool that makes the commodification of connection more accessible, such events and socials are things I have neglecte
An Ethnographic Study of Fatalism in a era of Pseudo Intellectualism and Populism. In Melville. By Hassan Moorosi I told my features writer to start writing about stuff that isn’t about himself and how much he hates everything, and I was very impressed when he pitched the idea to go cover a South African pop sensation