![Pulse: South African students' struggle for free higher education](https://i0.wp.com/www.gaiamanco.net/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Screen-Shot-2016-11-17-at-17.52.21.png?resize=470%2C140)
South African university students are continuing the struggle for a free decolonised higher education. The protests of 2016 reignited when in October the government allowed…
![In Sudafrica è esplosa la Primavera](https://i1.wp.com/www.gaiamanco.net/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Screen-Shot-2016-11-17-at-18.25.28.png?resize=470%2C140)
Non si placano le proteste degli studenti universitari sudafricani esplose a settembre, dopo l’annuncio del ministro dell’Istruzione superiore – Iama Nzimande – di un aumento…
![My Hair Matters, report for DW by Gaia Manco](https://i0.wp.com/www.gaiamanco.net/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Screen-Shot-2016-09-22-at-10.52.56.png?resize=470%2C140)
The subject of hair and how you wear it has made headlines in South Africa. Back in August, a group of students at Pretoria Girls…
![Batuk, a club act with a message - Audio Report for DW 3.8.2016](https://i1.wp.com/www.gaiamanco.net/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/batuk.jpeg?resize=470%2C140)
A new electronic music project, Batuk, is making people dance in the clubs of Johannesburg, South Africa. But Batuk is not the average club act….
![Meet the Afrofuturists: audio report for DW 01.12.2015](https://i2.wp.com/www.gaiamanco.net/wp/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Screen-Shot-2015-12-09-at-4.06.30-PM.png?resize=470%2C140)
World in Progress explores issues of globalization, education, economic development, poverty alleviation, human rights and more. On this week’s program: The water crisis facing residents…
![Generation change: Skating towards a brighter future -Radio report for DW - My first report from SA!](https://i0.wp.com/www.gaiamanco.net/wp/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Screen-Shot-2014-08-20-at-3.15.41-PM.png?resize=470%2C140)
Generation change: Skating towards a brighter future -Radio report for DW – My first report from SA!
If you grow up in a place plagued by crime and unemployment, like inner-city Johannesburg, you might think your fate is already mapped out for…
![Production: Junges Leipzig. Attention: art ahead!](http://www.gaiamanco.net/wp/wp-content/themes/oxygen/images/archive-thumbnail-placeholder.gif)
I’m proud to present the third of a series of short films that I am creating with film-maker Alina Cyranek about the city of Leipzig…