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The book is a gripping read for anyone interested in late 20th century history, and in the end of apartheid.
A younger generation of feminists will remember her, above all, for her remarkable championing of the struggle against patriarchy.
A historian counters the popular view that the 1989 collapse of the Berlin Wall set in motion talks to end apartheid. The process was unstoppable by then.
Despite its vagueness, the RET has become central to the contemporary ANC. It is destined to remain a powerful bloc within the party, and a constant constraint on Ramaphosa leadership.
Instead of drawing on the lessons of its own negotiated settlement and its rich history of peace-making in Africa, Pretoria chose to appease Russia.
Zondo’s career is made up of a tapestry of highlights, from lawyer to senior judge. He has written more than 200 judgments.
The rule of law embodies the rallying cry for the fair and democratic exercise of public power, buttressed by law and fundamental rights.
This history covers twelve decades, from the surrender of Boer guerrillas in the Second Anglo-Boer War in 1902 to the July 2021 looting spree and violence.
FW de Klerk as National Party conservative was paradoxically the right leader at the right time to relinquish white minority rule.
The new governing elite mistakenly believes that the goal of a democratic South Africa is simply to extend to everyone what whites enjoyed under apartheid.
The suggestion that Mandela single-handedly achieved democracy is as intellectually threadbare as the charge that he was centrally responsible for the failure to transform South Africa.
The growing defence of South Africa’s beleaguered constitutional democracy is bolstered by African thinker Mahmood Mamdani’s latest book.
Whites lived well under apartheid and it is not absurd for black leaders to want all to live in the same way.
Professionalism has to start with ministers for it to stand any chance of being embedded throughout the public service.
His appearance on behalf of the families of mine workers shot by the police at the Marikana Commission of Inquiry was just one of his efforts to seek justice for the poor and marginalised.
The book shows that the claim made by some analysts that it was the fall of communism that prompted moves towards negotiations to end apartheid is off the mark.
The life story of Mandlenkosi Makhoba represents the losers in the new South Africa, showing how inequality is produced and reproduced generationally.
Mangosuthu Buthelezi deserves better than being dismissed as an apartheid stooge. But he deserves little praise as an advocate for human rights and civil liberties.
Mandela left at the right time in 1999, when the country still seemed in a healthy state, after which he consolidated his international reputation.
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Lecturer, Culture and Media department, Birkbeck, University of London
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Political Scientist, University of the Western Cape
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Professor of Political Studies, University of Johannesburg
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Associate Professor in Public Law, University of Cape Town
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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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Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town and chancellor, University of the Western Cape
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Senior researcher, Centre for Social Change, University of Johannesburg
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Professor of Political Science and Chair of the South African Research Initiative in Gender Politics, Stellenbosch University
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Honorary Professor of International Relations, University of the Witwatersrand
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Professor of Public Affairs, Tshwane University of Technology
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Distinguished Reserach Professor, Southern Centre for Inequality Studies, University of the Witwatersrand
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Visiting Professor and Professor Emeritus, University of the Witwatersrand
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Professor of Political Science, University of the Western Cape
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Honorary Fellow of Green Templeton College, University of Oxford
