It remains to be seen how much longer the ‘old men syndrome’ will persist in Zimbabwe, Namibia and South Africa, despite growing frustration among the politically powerless.
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The April 1994 election proved to be a watershed for South Africa.
Election to the Security Council is prestigious for member states because it gives them a seat at the highest table of global decision-making.
It’s easy to report on access and inputs, but much more difficult to achieve educational quality and meaningful outcomes.
Some lessons from leadership theory for anyone aspiring to sit on the Iron Throne.
South African lawyer Bram Fischer has been idealised in a post-1994 context. He was raised in a position of privilege, but he used it to defy the injustice of the society that raised him.
Nelson Mandela’s dream of a great rainbow nation has been badly but not fatally undermined by corruption, violence and inequality.
Political books touches a certain chord in South African society that makes them bestsellers.
Much deeper social forces underlie the struggles within the governing ANC and society over the shape of the economy.
Leaders go in and out of fashion, making statues built in their memory a tricky issue.
Several outstanding women were nominated, but Rainbow Murray, an adviser to the series, says the public vote showed how we’re still more inclined to recognise male achievement.
Wherever there is an ugly, unresolved injustice pulling at the fabric of a society, there is an opportunity to haul it out in public and deal with it through a truth commission.
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.
Christian leaders played a very significant role in fighting apartheid. One of them, Peter Storey, tells in his autobiography what shaped his convictions.
The Algerian revolution had a profound effect on both Mandela and Fanon’s thinking about colonisation, oppression and freedom.
Twenty years after the final report of South Africa’s Truth Commission, dealing with the past will always remain “unfinished business”.
The desire to eulogise, as often appears to be the case in this exhibition, does not allow space for questions that might allow for a fuller explication of the nature of Mandela’s legacy and its relevance beyond South Africa.
Corporate interests undermine the British Council’s mission to build trust.
Mangosuthu Buthelezi carries extensive accountability for the sectarianism that characterised politics in South Africa before 1994.
He left an enduring legacy of embedding democracy and involving civil society in the pursuit of peace.
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Professor of Sociology, University of the Witwatersrand
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Extraordinary Professor, Department of Political Sciences, University of Pretoria
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Honorary Professor of International Relations, University of the Witwatersrand
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