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Would South Africa have been torn apart by civil war without the myth of Nelson Mandela?
The pioneering role she played, and the sacrifices she made, extended well beyond the famous 1956 Women’s March.
Thanks to the public events and the scholarly engagement with her life and work, Charlotte Maxeke has become one of the most visible South African women from the 19th and 20th centuries.
A secret plan to destabilise the new democratic government reveals the failed ambitions of the apartheid state security apparatus and confirms what is known about the brutality of the period.
Undocumented for decades, black South African feminists are increasingly visible. The essays in Surfacing present 22 leading thinkers.
The suggestion that Mandela single-handedly achieved democracy is as intellectually threadbare as the charge that he was centrally responsible for the failure to transform South Africa.
The book shows that the claim made by some analysts that it was the fall of communism that prompted moves towards negotiations to end apartheid is off the mark.
Mandela left at the right time in 1999, when the country still seemed in a healthy state, after which he consolidated his international reputation.
Controversy around Winnie Madikizela-Mandela continues in death as it did in life.
Society expects journalists to report objectively. But a documentary filmmaker has an opinion.
Reducing Madikizela’s entire life and legacy to her relationship with Mandela has more to do with patriarchal tropes about powerful women than reality.
The contentious book documenting Nelson Mandela’s last days that was pulled of the shelves left many unanswered questions. Judgement must be suspended until it’s content is made public.
South African Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa’s apology for his role in the 2012 Marikana massacre has no credibility, as there wasn’t full disclosure.
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Lecturer, Culture and Media department, Birkbeck, University of London
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Political Scientist, University of the Western Cape
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Centre for Social Change, University of Johannesburg
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Associate Professor of Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies and African Studies, Penn State
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Senior Lecturer in Media Studies, University of Cape Town
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Honorary Fellow of Green Templeton College, University of Oxford
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