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Book adds a great deal to our understanding of how children were ensnared into the Indian Ocean slave trade.
A collection of prison letters provides a peek into the suffering of South African liberation hero, Robert Sobukwe.
A British Conservative MP has brought concentration camps during the South African War back into the spotlight.
There are several ways to deal with discrimination, from initiating national dialogues to training teachers to identify their own biases.
Controversy around Winnie Madikizela-Mandela continues in death as it did in life.
Sarah Baartman’s name can be elevated to the highest point of the University of Cape Town’s campus, but if her legacy isn’t built into each classroom and interaction the honour is hollow.
Pik Botha defended apartheid and South Africa's occupation of Namibia, but in the end helped end both.
Africans have steadfastly responded to oppression through culture.
Bishop Huddleston's criticism of Enoch Powell's incendiary "Rivers of blood" speech was both a history lesson and a call to action against racism.
Reducing Madikizela’s entire life and legacy to her relationship with Mandela has more to do with patriarchal tropes about powerful women than reality.
In practice, land expropriation in South Africa will be a matter of deciding which descendants of the dispossessed are entitled to it.
Both South Africa's courts and its legislature have failed to do their bit in creating a culturally diverse society.
The ANC has worked hard to monopolise the history of the anti-apartheid struggle – meaning transformational figures are being left out.
Today's ANC is in terrible shape – but it wasn't Jacob Zuma who put it on the wrong track.
It is possible to trace the links between patriarchy, violence, gender roles, and the state further into the past. It's also possible to trace the ongoing resistance to these by some women.
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 central thrust of Haffajee's book is compelling. It argues that black South Africans, especially the new generation of young, black ‘born frees' are obsessed with whiteness and white privilege.
The reporting of the Marikana massacre was characterised by embedded journalism, sensationalism and polarisation of views. The media became a loudspeaker for powerful political and economic interests.
The Freedom Charter, adopted at a meeting in Soweto on June 25-26 1955, triggered a paradigm shift in thinking about the democratic rights of black South Africans and their protection under the law.
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Political Scientist, University of the Western Cape
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Professor of History, University of Botswana
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Caxton Professor of Journalism, University of the Witwatersrand
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Emeritus Professor of Private Law, University of Cape Town
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Senior Lecturer in Medical and Health Humanities, University of Cape Town
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Senior researcher, Centre for Social Change, University of Johannesburg
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Professor and Head of Department of Political and Conflict Studies, Nelson Mandela University
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Professor of Anthropology and Executive Dean of Arts, Nelson Mandela University
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Professor of Journalism in the Department of Journalism, Film and Television, University of Johannesburg
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Emeritus Professor, University of Cape Town
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Lecturer in Politics and International Relations, University of Leicester
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Lecturer in Directing & Writing in Film/TV, University of the Witwatersrand
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Research Fellow at the Nelson Mandela School of Public Governance, University of Cape Town
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Senior Lecturer in History, University of Dundee
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Postdoctoral fellow at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in the ERC funded project APARTHEID-STOPS that studies the transnational circulation of anti-apartheid expressive culture., Hebrew University of Jerusalem
