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Lecturer, Culture and Media department, Birkbeck, University of London
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Professor and Chair, Department of Journalism, Stellenbosch University
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Professor in Political Science, University of South Africa
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Emeritus Professor, School of Religion, Philosophy and Classics, University of KwaZulu-Natal
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Associate Professor, Centre for the Advancement of Non-Racialism and Democracy (CANRAD), Nelson Mandela University
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Emeritus Professor, University of Cape Town
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Lecturer in Politics and International Relations, University of Leicester
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Professor of Urban Governance, University of the Witwatersrand
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Professor of Sociology, University of the Witwatersrand
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Lecturer of History, Stellenbosch University
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Professor in Genetics, University of Pretoria
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Visiting Professor at the Business School, University of the Witwatersrand
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Senior lecturer, Stellenbosch University
