South Africa summoned the newly appointed U.S. ambassador Brent Bozell on Wednesday to explain what Foreign Minister Ronald Lamola described as “undiplomatic remarks” regarding the country’s racial policies and court rulings. Bozell, a conservative envoy who assumed his post last month amid already tense bilateral ties, sparked controversy after labeling…
The film Laundry, directed by Zamo Mkhwanazi, transports audiences to Johannesburg in 1968, a whites-only neighborhood where Black-owned businesses were under constant scrutiny and threat from the apartheid regime. The story follows Khutala, whose family runs a laundry business during a period when resistance to oppression had been largely dismantled.…