Barack Obama is delivering the Nelson Mandela lecture in a changing world dominated by the often outrageous utterances of his successor, US President Donald Trump.
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One of South Africa’s finest hip-hop crews message was that you couldn’t box identities forged through multilingual living in the ghettos.
Drawing on Mandela’s legacy, Obama can help the world better understand the nature of threats to democracy.
It was only in the late 1990s, as the world became more interested in South African photographers’ work, that Goldblatt’s work was identified as extraordinary.
Photographer David Goldblatt’s presence through his photographs will always be with us.
The persistence of Sam Nzima’s June 16 photograph is remarkable. The shadow in the photograph can be read as a metaphor for the rich debate that this image continues to bring to the surface.
Nelson Mandela’s centenary celebrations provide a chance to debunk the lie that he sold out black South Africans.
The UN’s Responsibility to Protect framework for safeguarding civilians against atrocities could help resolve the Gaza crisis.
Not the sort of amount you’d want to lose down the back of the sofa.
As CCTV cameras become more widespread, it’s becoming more difficult for people to protect their locational privacy in public.
Race still plays a big part in South African society. Sport is no exception.
Apartheid has been removed from the statute books for almost three decades. But a de facto apartheid endures both economically and socially.
Philip Tabane was unlike any other musician. His music was intimately woven into his cosmology and spirituality.
Mandela’s reconciliation message may have partly reflected his view of the world. But it was also a product of his party, the ANC.
If companies in key industries collectively shunned the Chinese market, that would force China’s leaders to take notice, with less risk of blowback.
The colonial and apartheid education project still echoes in South Africa’s post-1994 school system.
The protest song “Stimela” remains as much a song about present and future aspirations, as it is of the past.
A furious Twitter row between a TV personality and South African politician about slavery sheds light on the failings of arguments in 280 characters.
This years’ Freedom Day in South Africa can signify a difference: a renewal and return to the values of the 1994 social contract
The removal of Jacob Zuma from power is to be welcomed but, it’s not the answer to South Africa’s problems.
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Professor of Political Studies, University of Johannesburg
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Political Scientist, University of the Western Cape
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Senior research fellow, Centre for the Advancement of Scholarship, University of Pretoria
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Associate of the Gordon Institute for Business Science, University of Pretoria
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Senior Lecturer in Sport History, Stellenbosch University
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Extraordinary Professor, Department of Political Sciences, University of Pretoria
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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 Sociology, University of the Witwatersrand
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Honorary Professor of International Relations, University of the Witwatersrand
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Distinguished Reserach Professor, Southern Centre for Inequality Studies, University of the Witwatersrand
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Professor of Urban Governance, University of the Witwatersrand
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Senior Lecturer in History, University of Dundee
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Research fellow, NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies
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Professor and Head of Department of Political and Conflict Studies, Nelson Mandela University
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Research Associate at UCT's Centre of Criminology, Consultant at the Institute for Security Studies (ISS), University of Cape Town
