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Avoiding trite moralisations, Professor Southall uses empirical research to shed light on white South Africans’ adjustment to democracy.
Freedom Day needs to be used by South Africans to renew their commitment to correcting their country’s faults.
As the US debates reparations for descendants of slavery, cases in Africa help illustrate the limits of programs focused solely in financial restitution.
Pupils who aren’t exposed to different perspectives won’t be equipped to participate in and contribute to a democratic society.
A study shows that some Cape Town gangsters choose to stand alone, preferring their independence to taking orders from a gang boss.
Even after becoming an ‘ex’, former gang members must still negotiate gang associations and activities in the communities they remain in.
Cuban doctors have specific expertise in dealing with diseases like malaria which remains a major problem in Kenya.
Learners benefit from being exposed to multiple and unfamiliar teacher identities.
South Africa has tended to prioritise race relations over gender relations since formal apartheid ended.
Afrikaners in post-apartheid South Africa struggle with a historical sense of inferiority that reinforces their whiteness.
There is very little clarity as to who owns what land in South Africa. A lack of reliable data and statistics doesn’t help.
Students experience intense feelings of discomfort, confusion and even embarrassment at being classified as “different” and an “anomaly” alongside the norm of white academic success.
People with albinism tend to identify with the black rather than the white community. Their physical differences, though, mean they don’t fit into either race group.
Democracy in South Africa is meaningless if it doesn’t improve the lives of the people. To do this, the governing ANC must be led by conscientious, competent and interested leaders.
South African struggle stalwart Ahmed Kathrada believed in non-racialism to his core, even as others around him began to argue for an Africanist approach.
A pioneering documentary about South African punks, Fokofpolisiekar, doesn’t only focus on the band, but also illuminates the evolution of the documentary form.
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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 Philosophy of Education, Stellenbosch University
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Honorary research affiliate, Centre of Criminology, University of Cape Town
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Professor of African Language Studies, University of the Western Cape
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Professor of Public Affairs, Tshwane University of Technology
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Professor, Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape
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Emeritus Professor, Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape
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Senior lecturer in Screen Production and Film and Television Studies, University of Cape Town
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Professor of Urban Governance, University of the Witwatersrand
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Public Health Researcher, Anglia Ruskin University
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Senior lecturer, School of Governance, University of the Witwatersrand
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Acting Director: Institute for Pan-African Thought & Conversation, University of Johannesburg
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Visiting Professor of Social Work, University of Johannesburg
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Course coordinator: Language in Humanities, University of Cape Town
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Postdoctoral fellow, SARChi Chair in Gender politics, Stellenbosch University
