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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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Professor of Philosophy of Education, Stellenbosch University
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Researcher, SOAS, University of London
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Associate Professor, Centre for the Advancement of Non-Racialism and Democracy (CANRAD), Nelson Mandela University
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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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Professor and head of department of Political Sciences and acting head of the Institute for Strategic and Political Affairs, University of Pretoria
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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
