WRITING
‘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
‘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‘An outdated institution or a sacred commitment?‘, BBC Woman’s Hour, 26 October 2007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
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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