During the apartheid period in South Africa – 1948 to 1994 – a lively intellectual culture of opposition emerged on some of the country’s university campuses and within the broader anti-apartheid movement…
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Raymond Louw will be remembered as a man of unbending principle.
Book adds a great deal to our understanding of how children were ensnared into the Indian Ocean slave trade.
A collection of prison letters provides a peek into the suffering of South African liberation hero, Robert Sobukwe.
A British Conservative MP has brought concentration camps during the South African War back into the spotlight.
There are several ways to deal with discrimination, from initiating national dialogues to training teachers to identify their own biases.
Controversy around Winnie Madikizela-Mandela continues in death as it did in life.
Sarah Baartman’s name can be elevated to the highest point of the University of Cape Town’s campus, but if her legacy isn’t built into each classroom and interaction the honour is hollow.
Pik Botha defended apartheid and South Africa’s occupation of Namibia, but in the end helped end both.
Africans have steadfastly responded to oppression through culture.
Bishop Huddleston’s criticism of Enoch Powell’s incendiary “Rivers of blood” speech was both a history lesson and a call to action against racism.
Reducing Madikizela’s entire life and legacy to her relationship with Mandela has more to do with patriarchal tropes about powerful women than reality.
In practice, land expropriation in South Africa will be a matter of deciding which descendants of the dispossessed are entitled to it.
Both South Africa’s courts and its legislature have failed to do their bit in creating a culturally diverse society.
The ANC has worked hard to monopolise the history of the anti-apartheid struggle – meaning transformational figures are being left out.
Today’s ANC is in terrible shape – but it wasn’t Jacob Zuma who put it on the wrong track.
It is possible to trace the links between patriarchy, violence, gender roles, and the state further into the past. It’s also possible to trace the ongoing resistance to these by some women.
Fifty years ago US Senator Robert F Kennedy visited South Africa. A new documentary about RFK’s visit puts the spotlight on an important part of the country’s history.
The central thrust of Haffajee’s book is compelling. It argues that black South Africans, especially the new generation of young, black ‘born frees’ are obsessed with whiteness and white privilege.
The reporting of the Marikana massacre was characterised by embedded journalism, sensationalism and polarisation of views. The media became a loudspeaker for powerful political and economic interests.
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Political Scientist, University of the Western Cape
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Associate professor, Stellenbosch University
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Professor of Political Studies, University of Johannesburg
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Research Director: Developmental, Capable and Ethical State (DCES) research division, and Coordinator of the South African Social Attitudes Survey (SASAS), Human Sciences Research Council
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Lecturer, University of Cape Town
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Senior lecturer in African Studies, Yale University
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Lecturer, Culture and Media department, Birkbeck, University of London
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Professor of History, University of Botswana
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Chief Research Manager, Human Sciences Research Council
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Professor and Head of Department of Political and Conflict Studies, Nelson Mandela University
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Senior Research Specialist., Human Sciences Research Council
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Professor in Genetics, University of Pretoria
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Professor of Journalism in the Department of Journalism, Film and Television, University of Johannesburg
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Associate Professor in the Department of Journalism, University of the Witwatersrand
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Senior Lecturer, Applied Language and Literacy Studies, University of Cape Town
