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Former South African president Jacob Zuma says he won’t comply with a Constitutional Court order to appear before a commission on corruption. EFE-EPA/Yeshiel Panchia

February 2, 2021

Presidents who subvert democracies they vowed to protect can hit a brick wall: ask Jacob Zuma

Roger Southall, University of the Witwatersrand

Zuma shares ignominy with former US president Donald Trump who, like him, subverted democracy while in office.

South African freedom struggle stalwart Andrew Mlangeni at the UN.

July 23, 2020

Andrew Mlangeni 1925-2020: South Africa loses the last of the Rivonia triallists

Keith Gottschalk, University of the Western Cape

Although a commited veteran of the ANC, Mlangeni was no party apparatchik. He was outspoken against endemic corruption in government.

Detail from a poster for the Codesa talks. Judy Seidman

December 18, 2019

Art as a weapon in South Africa’s liberation struggle

Arianna Lissoni, University of the Witwatersrand

A retrospective exhibition displays the key works from the life and times of activist and artist Judy Seidman. She has used political posters as a galvanising force in the fight against injustice.

Umkhonto weSizwe founder Nelson Mandela, receives military training at an Algerian FLN camp in Morocco, 1962. South African History Online

July 19, 2022

What Mandela and Fanon learned from Algeria’s revolution in the 1950s

Charles Villet, Monash University

The Algerian revolution had a profound effect on both Mandela and Fanon’s thinking about colonisation, oppression and freedom.

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