Survey shows Zimbabwean policy makers need not fear a public backlash if they choose to abolition of the death penalty.
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The Scottish club’s move to support women’s struggles with menstruation and sport is the first of its kind.
Black lives in Brazil are devalued and subject to violence on a horrific scale.
Facebook is realizing it has broad obligations to society. Here’s how it could start meeting them.
The genocide memory in Rwanda is diverse and dynamic.
More and more radical scholars and activists in the West are rejecting human rights. Is this right?
Winnie Madikizela-Mandela’s political power stemmed from the visceral connection that she was able to make between the lives of the oppressed black people, and her own.
Winnie Madikizela-Mandela’s struggle was for humanity, oftentimes waged in an inhuman way.
Past cases indicate that verbal crimen injuria is not that serious. But a landmark sentence in South Africa has changed that.
Ruth and Maurie Crow were early advocates of the compact city. They also warned 50 years ago that a clear justice intent was needed to shape cities for their citizens rather than vested interests.
Those on low incomes get less back from home improvement schemes than they pay in government charges.
The ethical and political reasons to avoid free higher education are unambiguous.
Refugee policy may well be a humanitarian issue. But it is also a development issue.
Both South Africa’s courts and its legislature have failed to do their bit in creating a culturally diverse society.
Mass hysteria and lawlessness during disasters are remarkably rare, contrary to Western Cape Premier Helen Zille’s prediction of anarchy when Cape Town’s taps run day.
Nigeria is on the verge of passing a law to criminalise rampant mob lynching. Other countries have tried to do this and failed.
It’s still unclear whether Zimbabwe will manage an effective transition to participatory democracy and freedom. And the current signs are not encouraging.
Scholars have started to investigate what it really means to be middle class in Africa.
A dispute between the African Union’s executive and the commission responsible for overseeing human rights could weaken the protection of peoples’ rights.
Factions within South Africa’s ANC nostalgically point to the example of Oliver Reginald Tambo whose seen as an exemplar of integrity, personifying an ideal leader who served the party selflessly.
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Extraordinary Professor, Department of Political Sciences, University of Pretoria
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Professor of Political Studies, University of Johannesburg
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Emeritus Associate Professor in Public Law, University of Cape Town
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Senior Research Specialist., Human Sciences Research Council
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Divisional Executive, Developmental, Capable and Ethical State research division, Human Sciences Research Council
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Associate Professor in Public Law, University of Cape Town
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Director and Professor of International Human Rights Law, Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria
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Professor of Sociology, University of the Witwatersrand
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Research Director: Developmental, Capable and Ethical State (DCES) research division, and Coordinator of the South African Social Attitudes Survey (SASAS), Human Sciences Research Council
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Head of Department, Public and Environmental Law Department, University of Limpopo
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Professor of Political Science and Chair of the South African Research Initiative in Gender Politics, Stellenbosch University
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NRF/British Academy Postdoctoral Research Fellow under the SA-UK Bilateral Chair in Political Theory, University of the Witwatersrand
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Senior lecturer, The University of Edinburgh
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Professor/Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Advancement of Scholarship, University of Pretoria
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Professor of Political Science, Department of Political Studies and Governance, University of the Free State
