In his new capacity as President of South Africa, FW de Klerk directly experienced for the first time how the international community had abandoned its support for minority white rule.
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The springbok emblem was introduced under white rule in South Africa and by retaining it, it remains a burden for many South Africans who followed the Rugby World Cup.
Many South Africans hold onto the hope that a win in the World Cup translates into another defining moment for the country.
Mmusi Maimane's resignation highlights one of the core problems of democratic South Africa - the assumption that the only way to do anything is the way white men did it in the past.
Black consciousness in South Africa changed blacks and whites.
The IFP's constitution provides that the nomination of national office bearers be approved by the branches. But this was not done in the nomination of its new president.
South Africans seem to be fascinated with the way in which spying is entwined in the country’s politics.
Given the framework within which removals under the Group Areas Act took place in Cape Town, a social disaster was inevitable.
During the apartheid period in South Africa – 1948 to 1994 – a lively intellectual culture of opposition emerged on some of the country’s university campuses and within the broader anti-apartheid movement…
Raymond Louw will be remembered as a man of unbending principle.
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.
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Political Scientist, University of the Western Cape
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Professor and Head of Department of Political and Conflict Studies, Nelson Mandela University
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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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Professor in Political Science, University of South Africa
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Senior researcher, Centre for Social Change, University of Johannesburg
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Senior research fellow, Centre for the Advancement of Scholarship, University of Pretoria
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Distinguished Reserach Professor, Southern Centre for Inequality Studies, University of the Witwatersrand
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Professor of Anthropology and Executive Dean of Arts, Nelson Mandela University
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Lecturer, Department of Historical and Heritage Studies, University of Pretoria
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Professor of Journalism in the Department of Journalism, Film and Television, University of Johannesburg
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Professor of Political Science, University of the Western Cape
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Emeritus Professor, University of Cape Town
