Critics of the 1994 political settlement largely hail from the black middle class, even though it has been one the principal beneficiaries of South Africa’s social democracy.
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Mzala’s distinctive intellectual contribution combined a sophisticated grasp of revolutionary theory with the reality of ethnic nationalism.
The Communist Party draws most of the members from South Africa’s mainly young, unemployed people, a group that keeps growing.
The growing defence of South Africa’s beleaguered constitutional democracy is bolstered by African thinker Mahmood Mamdani’s latest book.
Each black person and woman may be an individual but, because they are black and women, they face obstacles which whites and men don’t.
Students feel a generational responsibility to challenge racial stereotypes, a study finds.
Unity for the wrong reasons reduces social cooperation to whatever happens to benefit a particular person or group, making it a zero-sum game.
South Africa needs a new progressive sports movement that works for equality and peace based on mass participation and social justice.
The vision set out by Cyril Ramaphosa has the seeds for galvanising South Africans to get back on the right path. But it urgently needs a plan to make it happen.
Barack Obama was asked to give the Mandela Lecture because he represents what the global liberation struggle icon stood for. He struck the right chord.
South African struggle stalwart Ahmed Kathrada believed in non-racialism to his core, even as others around him began to argue for an Africanist approach.
The foundation founded by Nelson Mandela in 1999 has done a major revision - it has written off most of his reign as comprising “grand symbolic gestures”.
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Professor of Urban Governance, University of the Witwatersrand
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Executive director, Africa Institute of South Africa, Human Sciences Research Council
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Vasti Roodt is Associate Professor and Head of PROSPER (Promoting Social and Political Ethics Research) in the Department of Philosophy, Stellenbosch University
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Associate Professor, Centre for the Advancement of Non-Racialism and Democracy (CANRAD), Nelson Mandela University
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Professor of Political Studies, University of Johannesburg
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Senior lecturer, School of Governance, University of the Witwatersrand
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Associate professor, Stellenbosch University
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Senior researcher, Durban University of Technology
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Senior Lecturer, University of KwaZulu-Natal
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Emeritus Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies, University of Limerick
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Political Scientist, University of the Western Cape
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Professor of Sociology, University of the Witwatersrand
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Distinguished Reserach Professor, Southern Centre for Inequality Studies, University of the Witwatersrand
