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Increasingly, young people across Africa are taking up Nelson Mandela’s challenge of working to improve the lives of ordinary people.
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has to show that he’s a decisive leader who can take unpopular decisions.
Nelson Mandela’s centenary celebrations provide a chance to debunk the lie that he sold out black South Africans.
ANC renewal and the war on corruption is one thing. But transforming the character of the South African political economy is quite another.
The Scottish club’s move to support women’s struggles with menstruation and sport is the first of its kind.
Mandela’s reconciliation message may have partly reflected his view of the world. But it was also a product of his party, the ANC.
The way Winnie Madikizela-Mandela is being remembered recalls the outpouring of grief and iconic status Eva Peron the First Lady of Argentina was accorded.
The Democratic Alliance is potentially in a good position to challenge the ANC, which governs South Africa, for power.
South African jazz veteran Jonas Gwangwa has been getting recognition for the pivotal role he played in ‘singing down apartheid.’
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.
Relations between the US and Africa are unlikely to improve while Trump remains president. But that doesn’t mean the continent should remain passive.
What makes a successful presidential performance and does South Africa’s Cyril Ramaphosa stack up?
Overall South Africa’s new president has a cabinet that forms a team with whom he can work.
The obituary of the Zuma administration can be summed up with its ethos: grab as much and as fast as you can.
Jacob Zuma was removed by the people’s effect, which connected the dots of corruption, a mismanaged state and rapacious capitalism.
Presidents Nelson Mandela and Thabo Mbeki sought to use South Africa’s diplomatic service to enable the country to punch above its weight.
Cyril Ramaphosa is no Messiah, and when the post-Zuma champagne corks stop popping, South Africans need to assess him as a mere mortal.
Proof of time travel, false memories or a parallel universe? A look at the wacky world of the ‘Mandela Effect’.
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Professor of Sociology, University of the Witwatersrand
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Political Scientist, University of the Western Cape
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Lecturer, Culture and Media department, Birkbeck, University of London
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Emeritus Associate Professor in Public Law, UCT. Visiting Adjunct Professor, WITS School of Governance; Director, Africa Programme, University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership, University of Cambridge
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Professor of Public Affairs, Tshwane University of Technology
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Professor of Urban Governance, University of the Witwatersrand
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Extraordinary Professor, Department of Political Sciences, University of Pretoria
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Vice-Chancellor and Principal, University of the Witwatersrand
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Honorary Professor of International Relations, University of the Witwatersrand
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Professor of Public Theology in the Department of Beliefs and Practices, Faculty of Theology, at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (Free University of Amsterdam), Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
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Distinguished Reserach Professor, Southern Centre for Inequality Studies, University of the Witwatersrand
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Professor and Head of Department of Political and Conflict Studies, Nelson Mandela University
