The country urgently needs more people who are committed to living decently to undo the systemic humiliation caused by political and economic institutions.
Riders pass a billboard in Kigali during Rwanda’s 100-day commemoration of the 1994 genocide.
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Every South African who cares about the future of the country will agree with former president Mbeki that, to avert disaster, something must be done urgently about its deep socio-economic problems.
A protest in Johannesburg against the lack of service delivery or basic necessities such as access to water and electricity.
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The country is still a very different political space. It’s a noisy democracy with a free media, lots of dissenting voices, and insulting the government doesn’t carry any overt sanction.
Former Angolan president José Eduardo dos Santos.
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Referenda may well have a place in the country’s democracy, but if the form of an electoral system can be referred to a referendum, why not capital punishment, abortion or LGBT rights?
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 woman votes in Lesotho’s 2017 national election. New elections are due in October.
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South Africa has no comprehensive national media literacy programme. Often it comes down to individual teachers and schools to make learners more media literate.
Image from big beautiful female theory by Eloise Grills (Affirm Press).
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Two radically inventive new works of Australian graphic nonfiction dig deep into 21st-century life. They balance critique with hopeful possibilities – of collective change and radical acceptance.
The UK’s high potential individual visa demonstrates short-sightedness about the experience, insights and skills that graduates from the global South could bring to the UK.
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The UK is offering an elite visa for well-off graduates from elite institutions to stay temporarily in the UK.
Family members wash away blood at the scene of a shooting in Khayelitsha, Cape Town, where seven people were shot dead in May.
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The study highlights the flimsy boundaries between different forms of violence: torture and extrajudicial punishment, lawful arrest, and an unlawful kidnapping.
Atul Gupta (pictured) and his brother Rajesh are the alleged masterminds behind state capture in South Africa.
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South Africa could benefit from having a dedicated institution to oversee whistleblower protection.
A memorial in Orlando West, Soweto, honouring the victims of the massacre of school children by apartheid police.
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Acting Strategic Lead: Developmental, Capable and Ethical State (DCES) research division, and Coordinator of the South African Social Attitudes Survey (SASAS), Human Sciences Research Council