WRITING
Trump and South Africa: What is white victimhood, and how is it linked to white supremacy? The Conversation, 12 February 2025.
With Mehita Iqani. A power crisis. Africa is a Country, 1 June 2023.
Fear and loathing in South Africa. The Conversation, 15 May 2023
From Satanism to genocide: Moral panic and white supremacy in South Africa. Georgetown Journal of International Affairs, 12 May 2023
Reading list. Africa is a Country, 7 December 2022
When fear stalks streets and rioting reigns. First Post, 10 September 2021
With Cobus van Staden. Journey through anxious Joburg, Mail & Guardian, 5 November 2020
With Cobus van Staden. Anxiety in Johannesburg: New views on a global south city. The Conversation, 12 October 2020
Ugly noo-noos and suburban nightmares. Johannesburg Review of Books, 8 October 2020
Spirited away into a latex underworld. Mail & Guardian, 31 October 2017
Rian Malan’s Coligny and racial fear in the media. Mail & Guardian, 11 May 2017
Op-Ed: My South African university is on fire. New York Times, 30 October 2016
Familicides – How apartheid killed its own. The Conversation, 31 July 2016
The myth of white purity in South Africa. The Conversation, 15 May 2016
Op-Ed: South Africa’s student revolt. New York Times, 25 October 2015
Talking the (white) talk, walking the (white) walk. Daily Maverick, 19 June 2014
Cultural machismo. Daily Maverick, 27 February 2014
Red October. Daily Maverick, 7 October 2013
FHM and the outrage machine. Daily Maverick, 13 July 2013.
In police we (don’t) trust. Daily Maverick, 16 May 2013
Gender violence, our society’s insidious suberbug. Daily Maverick, 23 April 2013
With James Arvanitakis. Race still rules in South Africa. The New Matilda, 19 April 2013
My problem with marriage. The Guardian, 26 October 2007
RADIO AND PODCASTS
Book explores South Africa’s obsession with blaming crime on the occult, CapeTalk, 25 September 2025
Book of the Week, Eyewitness News, 11 September 2025
Reading Matters, Radio Today, 26 August 2025
Afrikaners granted refugee status arrive in US, The World from PRX, 13 May 2025
The Expropriation Act and ‘white victimhood’, eNCA, 5 March 2025
Emotion directs behaviour and constructs society, Womanity Africa, 12 April 2024
Nicky Falkof on Gaza, Jewishness, apartheid, moral panic, and South Africa, The Cultural Studies Podcast, 18 January 2024
Anxiety, Uncommon Sense – The Sociological Review Podcast, 2023
Queen Havoc and her murder cult, I Heart Radio, 2023
Joburg, anxiety & whiteness, Surviving Society, 13 July 2021
Anxious Joburg, Radio New Frame, 4 December 2020
Anxious Joburg, 702, 5 September 2020
How your tribe affects your vibe, 702, 8 September 2020
Lockdown is world’s biggest psychological experiment & we will pay the price, CapeTalk, 21 April 2020
The psychology of mass panic buying, CapeTalk, 17 March 2020
Racial mythologies of the far right, Centre for the Analysis of the Radical Right, 21 November 2019
The devil in Joburg, Sound Africa, 2 January 2017
Satanism and family murder in late apartheid South Africa, School of Oriental and Africa Studies, 18 January 2016
Why we don’t trust the police, CapeTalk, 18 May 2013
An outdated institution or a sacred commitment?, BBC Woman’s Hour, 26 October 2007
WEBINARS AND TV
Occult and satanic practices, Newzroom Africa, 21 September 2025
The Devil Made Me Do It launch, LoveBooks Jozi, 11 September 2025
Do supernatural beliefs affect violence? eNCA, 15 August 2025
Risk, anxiety and moral panic in Johannesburg, Wits University inaugural lecture, 11 August 2025
Techbros and big daddies, WiSER, 8 May 2025
Ramifications of Rasool’s expulsion from Washington, Newzroom Afrika, 18 March 2025
Die vrienden van apartheid, Frontlinie on NPO, 3 June 2024
Convict Conman, Showmax, streaming from December 2023
Crime in SA: A return to satanic panic?, eNCA, 8 February 2022
Gru-verhale, Prontuit, Kyknet, 16 August 2021
Why Joburg? lecture for the UJ Graduate School of Architecture, 3 March 2021
Anxious Joburg book launch, hosted by WiSER and Wits University Press, 28 October 2020
Anxious Joburg tells the story of a city, eNCA, 7 October 2020
How your tribe defines your vibe, eNCA, 8 September 2020
On commuting to work by bike in Johannesburg, Smart Monkey TV, 11 September 2014
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