Avoiding trite moralisations, Professor Southall uses empirical research to shed light on white South Africans’ adjustment to democracy.
- Professor, Sociology, University of the Western Cape, Nelson Mandela University
Prix Nobel de la Paix 1993 avec Nelson Mandela pour sa participation à la dissolution de l’apartheid, Frédérik De Klerk n’a jamais cessé d’entretenir le flou sur sa position vis-à-vis de ce régime.
FW de Klerk as National Party conservative was paradoxically the right leader at the right time to relinquish white minority rule.
The 2021 local government elections signals widespread disillusionment with representative democracy that only a sea change in service delivery can fix.
The growing defence of South Africa’s beleaguered constitutional democracy is bolstered by African thinker Mahmood Mamdani’s latest book.
The white liberal establishment, both inside and outside the Democratic Alliance, holds on to its race-blindness by distorting the South African idea of “non-racialism”.
The South African pressure group Afriforum and its allies want to be the only voices speaking on behalf of Afrikaners.
Afrikaners in post-apartheid South Africa struggle with a historical sense of inferiority that reinforces their whiteness.
Documents released ahead of the policy conference of South Africa’s embattled governing ANC show it hasn’t the guts or internal balance of forces, for self-correction and renewal.
Sections of South Africa’s student movements regard transformation as a complete failure. Responding to this perceived failure, some have adopted an anti-democratic stance.
How do Afrikaners find a place in post-apartheid South Africa? A look back at the dissidents who took on the apartheid state over decades offers some examples.
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