Cape Town Opera stages The Mandela Trilogy in Wales.
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A new book explores how Cape Town became a hub for African opera.
Izikhothane display their expensive Italian shoes - which they sometimes destroy in public.
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It’s about more than wasteful destruction; it’s a way of restoring dignity to marginalised young lives.
South African captain Siya Kolisi at the 2023 Rugby World Cup in France.
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A psychologist analyses the rugby star’s life to extract lessons.
There are more black African academic staff at South African universities than before.
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Despite some positive shifts, the staffing situation at public higher education institutions remains polarised in terms of race and gender.
Eusebius McKaiser in 2022.
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Outspoken, astute and sometimes controversial, he transcended the role of talk radio host to become a public intellectual.
Judge President of South Africa’s Supreme Court of Appeal, Mandisa Maya.
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It is important to embrace all the nation’s languages in a multilingual and multicultural society. This will ensure they are used, developed and mainstreamed.
A multiracial crowd sings the South African National Anthem at 2019 memorial service for the late rugby Springbok Chester Williams.
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Avoiding trite moralisations, Professor Southall uses empirical research to shed light on white South Africans’ adjustment to democracy.
27 April 1994: South Africans vote in the nation’s first free and democratic general election.
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Freedom Day needs to be used by South Africans to renew their commitment to correcting their country’s faults.
Activists mark National Reparations Day in Washington, D.C., on July 1, 2019.
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As the US debates reparations for descendants of slavery, cases in Africa help illustrate the limits of programs focused solely in financial restitution.
Muslim-based schools have retained the same racial and cultural exclusivity that was enforced during apartheid.
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Pupils who aren’t exposed to different perspectives won’t be equipped to participate in and contribute to a democratic society.
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A study shows that some Cape Town gangsters choose to stand alone, preferring their independence to taking orders from a gang boss.
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Even after becoming an ‘ex’, former gang members must still negotiate gang associations and activities in the communities they remain in.
Some of the 50 Cuban medical specialists who arrived in Kenya recently to work in under served rural areas.
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Cuban doctors have specific expertise in dealing with diseases like malaria which remains a major problem in Kenya.
Teachers from different backgrounds and cultures are important for pupils’ learning.
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Learners benefit from being exposed to multiple and unfamiliar teacher identities.
South Africa has been dubbed “the rape capital of the world”.
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South Africa has tended to prioritise race relations over gender relations since formal apartheid ended.
Statues like these - here Paul Kruger at Pretoria’s Church Square - are a reminder of a time when Afrikaners were the ruling class in South Africa.
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Afrikaners in post-apartheid South Africa struggle with a historical sense of inferiority that reinforces their whiteness.
Land ownership patterns in South Africa have not really changed since the advent of democracy.
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There is very little clarity as to who owns what land in South Africa. A lack of reliable data and statistics doesn’t help.
Getting access to a university doesn’t necessarily mean feeling comfortable in that space.
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Students experience intense feelings of discomfort, confusion and even embarrassment at being classified as “different” and an “anomaly” alongside the norm of white academic success.
People with albinism often isolate themselves to avoid discrimination.
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People with albinism tend to identify with the black rather than the white community. Their physical differences, though, mean they don’t fit into either race group.
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Democracy in South Africa is meaningless if it doesn’t improve the lives of the people. To do this, the governing ANC must be led by conscientious, competent and interested leaders.