Given the central role that ethnicity played and still plays in South African politics, it is good to have an unbiased estimate of Afrikaners’ genetic history.
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A small community of Afrikaners has been living in Argentina since the early 1900s. Linguistic research has found they’re like a time capsule, reflecting pronunciation and syntax from an earlier era.
South Africa has a history of burning books. The ashes of burnt books tell of the barbarism to which a society can descend.
The South African pressure group Afriforum and its allies want to be the only voices speaking on behalf of Afrikaners.
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.
Rock music against military conscription during 1980s South Africa resonated with wider fault lines in Afrikaner society - this as the apartheid regime’s grip on power started to slip.
Once again South Africa is facing the challenge of a compromised relationship between the state and the church. Is Nelson Mandela inadvertently responsible?
During the 1980s, press coverage of South African family murders suggested that something was ‘wrong’ with white society – and with the white Afrikaans men who were usually seen as perpetrators.
Fifty years ago US Senator Robert F Kennedy visited South Africa. A new documentary about RFK’s visit puts the spotlight on an important part of the country’s history.
The rhetoric of racial purity is full of suggestive terms like illness, weakening and dilution. These imply the medicalisation of the nation.
How do Afrikaners find a place in post-apartheid South Africa? A look back at the dissidents who took on the apartheid state over decades offers some examples.
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Associate Professor, Centre for the Advancement of Non-Racialism and Democracy (CANRAD), Nelson Mandela University
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Associate professor, University of the Witwatersrand
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Lecturer in Directing & Writing in Film/TV, University of the Witwatersrand
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Associate Professor of English, State University of New York Oswego
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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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Lecturer of History, Stellenbosch University
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Emeritus Professor of Information Science, University of Pretoria
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Associate Professor, Departments of Romance Languages & Literatures, and Linguistics, University of Michigan
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Associate Professor, Departments of Romance Languages & Literatures and Judaic Studies, University of Michigan
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Director, African Studies Center/Professor, Department of Linguistics, University of Michigan
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Associate Professor, Departments of History and of Romance Languages and Literatures, University of Michigan, University of Michigan
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Associate Professor, Departments of History and of Romance Languages and Literatures, University of Michigan
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Assistant Professor, Department of Romance Languages & Literatures, University of Michigan
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Adjunct Lecturer, William & Mary
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Professor in Genetics, University of Pretoria
