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.
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Articles sur Apartheid
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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.
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.
Inequality in organisations is difficult to shift because they are entrenched by the status quo.
Scientists themselves seemed to be unaware that their lack of comment on the absurdity of apartheid was a statement in itself.
Is history really a triumphant march of progress? It depends on your point of view.
The former secretary-general of the Commonwealth represents the true essence of a public intellectual and leader; his sense of duty defines his legacy.
Makeba, who would have turned 90 on 4 March 2022, was a hugely influential artist and an icon of African liberation and identity.
The death of Anglican Archbishop Desmond Tutu in 2021 has triggered renewed frustrations over the elusiveness of a “new” South Africa.
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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 Lecturer in History, University of Dundee
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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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Associate Professor of Sociology, University of the Witwatersrand
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Research Associate at UCT's Centre of Criminology, Consultant at the Institute for Security Studies (ISS), University of Cape Town
