There is never going to be a final assessment of Mandela’s legacy. How it is regarded will continue to change, depending on the destination South Africa travels to.
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A new book delves into the issues faced by a 1971 international tennis tour, and calls for injustice to be recognised.
The activist and writer has been erased from South Africa’s history - but new academic work seeks to restore his voice.
Regarding himself heir to Cecil Rhodes, Oppenheimer deplored the threat to civilisation represented by ‘primitive tribesmen’.
The book is a gripping read for anyone interested in late 20th century history, and in the end of apartheid.
Jonny Steinberg talks about his intimate double biography of the famous South African leaders.
Neil Agget’s passionate trade unionism proved fateful. It made him a target of a brutally repressive apartheid police state.
Gan Siyabonga is unique in Israel. It highlights a group that was both anti-apartheid and pro-Zionist.
Africa is considered too high risk as a destination for big US pop tours - but Beyoncé could and should break the mould.
South Africa’s foreign policy under Ramaphosa emphasises economic diplomacy and ‘progressive internationalism’, which promotes global equity and ending the dominance of the global north.
The relationship between Pretoria and Moscow was forged in the apartheid era with the then Soviet Union giving support to banned ANC fighters.
A powerful new book restores the writer and feminist politician to her rightful place in history.
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.
The activist is today the subject of songs, sculptures, an annual lecture and even a new musical.
Mandela, the first president of a democratic South Africa, made big strategic choices – not necessarily the right ones, but certainly ones that were befitting of the times.
Struggle songs are relevant even in the post apartheid context because they continue to be an important way in which people deliberate on issues.
People are puzzled when they learn they share the same false memories with others. That’s partly because they assume that what they remember and forget ought to be based only on personal experience.
To his credit, former South African president Thabo Mbeki set up anti-corruption institutions that survived his own efforts to erode them.
South Africa’s foreign policy is supposed to be guided by the principle of ubuntu (humanness), so a visit to an aggressor is hard to explain.
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Professor of Sociology, University of the Witwatersrand
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Political Scientist, University of the Western Cape
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Extraordinary Professor, Department of Political Sciences, University of Pretoria
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Lecturer, Culture and Media department, Birkbeck, University of London
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Senior Lecturer in History, University of Dundee
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Professor of Urban Governance, University of the Witwatersrand
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Professor of Public Affairs, Tshwane University of Technology
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Emeritus Professor, University of South Africa and Visiting professor and strategic advisor in Faculty of Humanities., University of Johannesburg
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Honorary Professor of International Relations, University of the Witwatersrand
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Full Professor of Ethics and Head of Department, Systematic Theology and Ecclesiology, Director of the Beyers Naudé Centre for Public Theology, Stellenbosch University
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Vice-Chancellor and Principal, University of the Witwatersrand
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Professor and Head of Department of Political and Conflict Studies, Nelson Mandela University
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Senior Research Fellow, Centre for the Advancement of Scholarship, University of Pretoria, and Visiting Professor of International Relations, Federal University of Santa Maria, Brazil, University of Pretoria
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Distinguished Reserach Professor, Southern Centre for Inequality Studies, University of the Witwatersrand
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Research Fellow New South Institute, Emeritus Professor at The Nelson Mandela School of Public Governance, University of Cape Town
