Inequalities persist in the field of academic human geography.
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The cycle of opportunity and prestige for historically advantaged institutions leaves historically Black institutions on the back foot.
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Social media is a lifeline for community radio, helping it grow by being shaped by young listeners.
An image from the Lockdown series that won the 2023 FNB Art Prize.
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The winner of the prestigious FNB Art Prize documents township life in lockdown and rural life in a former homeland.
Scores of people walk home along the N2 highway after being left stranded by a taxi strike.
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Who the taxi strike affected, where and how shows the violent reality of the city’s spatial injustice.
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.
A still from the documentary about growing up in South Africa.
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Opening the Encounters documentary festival in South Africa, the film has received international praise.
There are ways to make the path to a chartered accountancy qualification less fraught for black candidates.
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Smart, capable students struggled to navigate cultural and language norms in university accounting classrooms.
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These vibrant writers embrace the open road and claim spaces that were denied them during apartheid.
Kamo Mphela performs at the First Annual South African Amapiano Music Awards in 2021.
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The beats are fresh but the performances are second rate and lacking star quality.
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The study analysed the content of six news outlets from 1994 to 2014, looking at how core socio-economic issues were reported.
South African cricketer Quinton De Kock and team captain Temba Bavuma make their way out to bat in a T20 World Cup match against Australia.
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It’s important to guard against empty gestures. Taking the knee represents a start. But on its own it won’t bring meaningful change to the lives of black people.
A South African woman mourning her husband who died of AIDS covers herself, according to custom, during the burial.
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In both countries, neglect and misinformation at the highest levels of government led to undue tragedy.
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In each of his novels, he explored questions that shifted South Africa’s cultural debates, especially about memory and race.
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In South Africa and India, research has found that free or affordable housing can actually undermine women’s safety and livelihoods.
Harold Wolpe showed how poor rural areas subsidised low wages of migrant workers’ wages.
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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…
South Africa has struggled to get schooling right across the board.
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It’s easy to report on access and inputs, but much more difficult to achieve educational quality and meaningful outcomes.
Communities in South Africa’s North West Province are embroiled in battles with chiefs over land.
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South Africa has made progress towards interrupting the looting of land by chiefs, state officials and mining capital.
Former Chinese President Jiang Zemin greets former South African President Nelson Mandela in 2000.
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Mandela did not make the decision to jettison Taiwan and recognise China. He adhered to a decision by the governing ANC.
Nelson Mandela, arriving for Thabo Mbeki’s inauguration in 2004.
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Mandela continues to serve as a rare example of a principled politician committed to forgiveness and reconciliation.
South Africa’s Union Buildings in Pretoria.
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South Africa’s governance challenge can’t simply be fixed by reorganising the structure of government.