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.
Books are often targeted when they are sympathetic to the oppressed.
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A scholar of literature sees striking parallels between contemporary book bans in the US and those that took place in South Africa during apartheid.
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.
Francis Wilson: an academic who never fitted easily into any school of thought or belonged in anyone’s camp.
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The South African Khoe-San communities are no strangers to exploitative research. One research team is trying to provide genetic ancestry results to community members. But they still face many challenges.
The 2013 strike over wages by farm workers in South Africa’s Western Cape.
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The former secretary-general of the Commonwealth represents the true essence of a public intellectual and leader; his sense of duty defines his legacy.