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The Drum journalist was a rare woman in a male-dominated world. Her autobiography has now been published after her death.
Soon after it was established in 1932 Orlando became a mecca of black urban culture and liberation politics.
The 1986 research revealed that a large proportion of the community members surveyed thought that Wits served mainly white, corporate interests.
Struggle songs are relevant even in the post apartheid context because they continue to be an important way in which people deliberate on issues.
While the Jan. 6 committee investigating the US Capitol attacks has limited legal powers, it can help craft an accurate narrative of American democracy and history.
The comic offers important ways of criticising those in power. Trevor Noah is superb at it.
The global realignment triggered by the end of the Cold War and Gorbachev’s reforms ushered in a period of transition on the African continent.
Wits University Press is one of only 15 active university publishers in Africa – crucial for scholarship about the continent.
The pioneering role she played, and the sacrifices she made, extended well beyond the famous 1956 Women’s March.
The political skill to turn situations to his advantage, rather than any ability to mobilise people, made Angolan president José Eduardo dos Santos one of Africa’s longest-serving leaders.
A scholar of literature sees striking parallels between contemporary book bans in the US and those that took place in South Africa during apartheid.
The study highlights the flimsy boundaries between different forms of violence: torture and extrajudicial punishment, lawful arrest, and an unlawful kidnapping.
He used his powerful research to promote social change for justice in South Africa.
Land reform had not been held back by the constitution but by capacity constraints and a lack of political will.
Subsidies for black farmers in South Africa would build a new ‘crop’ of commercially oriented farmers.
The famous writer turns 70 this year. She is driven by how South Africans see and hear one another.
Abundantly talented and flawed, apartheid-era writer Can Themba wasn’t afraid to put his body on the line for a story.
Freedom Day needs to be used by South Africans to renew their commitment to correcting their country’s faults.
When a patriarchal society is combined with a history of colonialism, women in that country are at heightened risk of gender-based violence.
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Professor of Political Studies, University of Johannesburg
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Associate professor, Stellenbosch University
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Associate of the Gordon Institute for Business Science, University of Pretoria
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Professor of Sociology, University of the Witwatersrand
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Senior Research Fellow, Centre for the Advancement of Scholarship, University of Pretoria., University of Pretoria
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Extraordinary Professor, Department of Political Sciences, University of Pretoria
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Senior Researcher and Senior Lecturer (Radical Humanities Laboratory, University College Cork), NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies
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Political Scientist, University of the Western Cape
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Distinguished Reserach Professor, Southern Centre for Inequality Studies, University of the Witwatersrand
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Associate Professor, Centre for the Advancement of Non-Racialism and Democracy (CANRAD), Nelson Mandela University
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Senior Research Fellow, Horn of Africa and Southern Africa, Institute of Commonwealth Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London
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Honorary Professor of International Relations, University of the Witwatersrand
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Professor of Urban Governance, University of the Witwatersrand
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Senior Lecturer in History, University of Dundee
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Associate Professor of Sociology, University of the Witwatersrand
