Further down the road, this area — sewered, powered, solar cells on each roof — ends, and we’re in shack territory. Here poverty is more reliably poor, odd strips of lino making a floor, furniture as off-cuts. But even here there’s a ghetto-blaster and a stack of CDs or a rack of sharp shirts.
Articles by Guy Rundle 
Rundle: Faulkner, the election and the exhaustion of mainstream politics
With the resignation from the ministry of John Faulkner, a great part of what was left of the Left has left the centre of the ALP.
Guy Rundle: Rundle’s World Cup: from a sea of slums, to brick built suburbs and the shadows in between
People advise those who are embarking on a South African trip not to visit Cape Town first, and they’re right. Once you’re here you have no desire to leave and the rest of the country is bound to be, well, another country.
Guy Rundle: Rundle’s World Cup: a mix of mixing in downtown Jo’burg
When the 120th minute ticked over for US v Ghana, it was a great moment to be on this continent, the near full moon shining across the walls and the electric wire, the sheet metal and the malls alike.
Rundle: Rudd dumped along with mainstream politics
There is now a fatal disconnect between the perceived challenges faced by nations and the entire species, the political system and the leaders chosen by it. Julia Gillard’s ascension is just the latest example.
Guy Rundle: Rundle’s World Cup: an Australian victory to be proud of
Due to excessive consumption of biltong, Guy Rundle is unable to present a match report on the Australia-Serbia game last night. Substituting for him is Trevor McCorquodale, who watched the Socceroos flash like a beacon on the darkening veldt of Mbombel.
Rundle: Rudd hasn’t been too left or too right — he’s been too technical
There are good compromises and bad compromises, as the man has said, and Rudd appears to have plumped largely for the latter. But that does not get to the core of Ruddism.
Guy Rundle: Rundle’s World Cup: sun sets on Bafana Bafana, but the party’s just begun
South Africa’s first goal came when I was halfway between the Formule One motel and the town centre of Nelspruit — navigating through dusty warehouses and car parts showrooms, whole areas thrown up from prefab metal in the last decade or so.
Guy Rundle: Rundle’s World Cup: Riding the vuvuzela from Sandton to Sun City
Guy Rundle has touched down in South Africa amidst the carnival that is the FIFA World Cup. Supporting Ghana (not the Socceroos) he finds himself comforted by his Lonely Planet guide as he finds a bar in which to watch the game.
Guy Rundle: Holland stays Right, but slashes back the Christians
The voters of the Netherlands went to the polls today and delivered a result that is very confusing to anyone trying to read off the implications for the rest of Western Europe.
Guy Rundle: Rundle does Amsterdam: right winger Wilders, the canary in the coalmine of European politics
Geert Wilders, the peroxide blond leader of the PVV, the Freedom Party, has become the bete noire of Dutch politics, and a hero to crazed right-wingers everywhere around the world.
Rundle: Greater Israel, Greater Schmisrael — the Zionist entity is mad as a bag of cats
To support Israel, must be like supporting Collingwood in a final these days, watching through the fingers of the hand. “Oh f-ck …don’t do that. What are you thinking?”
Yet, whatever the horrors of the IDF raid on the Gaza flotilla, it has certainly brought a brutal government, indifferent to the suffering […]
Guy Rundle: Rundle’s UK: Britain contemplates the mystery of evil
Twelve people are now confirmed dead at the hands of a lone gunman in the northern English county of Cumbria. The events prompted some calls for a review of the gun laws.
Guy Rundle: Rundle’s UK: Con-LibDems actually want to limit CCTV? Well blow me down.
As it turned out, both the Conservatives and the Lib-Dems said enough was enough on Britain’s Orwellian surveillance state. Who’d a thunk it?
Guy Rundle: Rundle in Cannes: Does Tim Burton really know what serious cinema is?
In a year widely regarded as having one of the more boring and average fields in official competition, the Cannes jury has chosen one of the most obscure entries to take out the Palme D’Or: a Thai film called Lung Boonmee Raluek Chat. At least it’s not a direr realist piece.
Guy Rundle: Rundle in Cannes: Oh, for a few spare invitations
In a third-floor apartment, Guy Rundle brushes elbows with a cinema great, and contemplates the throng of hopefuls lining the streets as Cannes begins to wind down.
Guy Rundle: Rundle in Cannes: Come for the films, stay for the parties
After watching several films in Cannes Guy Rundle went to a party in a marquee. It was an all white marquee, most of the folks were in white, the DJing was white, even the black people were white.
Guy Rundle: Rundle in Cannes (yes, we hate him too), where money talks and parties rule
Crikey’s intrepid Guy Rundle has made his way to Cannes — where you don’t need to see any films, but you do need to talk about film funding.
Guy Rundle: Rundle’s UK: Con Lib-Dems divide up the spoils, dim-sum style
The first meeting of the UK’s coalition cabinet looked about as dignified as one of those casual get-togethers at a Chinese restaurant where everyone brings extra guests, and you’ve got your elbow in ginger beef all evening.
Guy Rundle: Rundle’s UK: the Clegg and Cameron double act — not particularly funny
The new “marriage” between David Cameron and Nick Clegg is already getting relationship advice. A fixed five year term is bold. It may well also be unconstitutional, but that discussion is still playing out.
Guy Rundle: It’s really over — New Labour has gone
The UK has a new prime minister and a new government. Whatever New Labour was, it has gone, leaving much and perhaps taking more.
Guy Rundle: Rundle’s UK: Brown resigns, a Labour/Lib-Dems union beckons
Gordon Brown has finally pulled out the Samson Option, offering his resignation to a packed media horde outside No.10 Downing Street early on Monday evening.
Guy Rundle: UK election: Everyone’s a loser
The UK has no government, collective decision-making seems impossible, radically different agendas are being run, and the man in the street will be the loser.
Guy Rundle: Rundle’s UK: It’s dire for Lib Dems
David Cameron’s Tories have failed to win a majority in the their own right in the 2010 UK election, in a poll marred by sit-ins and protests at polling places where people were unable to vote by the time polls had closed.
Guy Rundle: Rundle’s UK: Fingers crossed for a full-blown constitutional crisis
In 24 hours, David Cameron may be Britian’s Prime Minister presumptive. But millions are hoping that a chaotic and unresolved result will open the space for new possibilities, and fast.
