The election results raise the real possibility that the ANC could be looking at another defeat in the 2024 general elections.
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Elite universities have been giving special preference to children of prior graduates for more than a century. Has the time come for that practice to stop? A sociologist weighs in.
The new governing elite mistakenly believes that the goal of a democratic South Africa is simply to extend to everyone what whites enjoyed under apartheid.
Quota systems provide opportunities for more women to stand for election. But they’re not enough.
New research shows an ambitious state plan to broaden diversity at public universities is missing the mark when it comes to flagship universities.
Professors of color are few and far between at America’s business schools. Hidden obstacles in the search process help explain why.
Leon mulls over the Democratic Alliance’s biggest challenge: ‘how to maintain its majority support among minorities, and increase its meagre voter share among the black majority’.
Women MPs point to a toxic environment in which a politics of insults, ridicule and rumour work against having more women in political offices.
How will the rejection of a 2020 ballot initiative affect student demographics at California’s colleges and universities?
Each black person and woman may be an individual but, because they are black and women, they face obstacles which whites and men don’t.
His appearance on behalf of the families of mine workers shot by the police at the Marikana Commission of Inquiry was just one of his efforts to seek justice for the poor and marginalised.
The value of women to political tickets in Ghana is being recognised as more women are contesting elections at various levels.
The bushfire royal commission will look at incorporating Aboriginal knowledge into mainstream fire management. But in practice, what does that mean?
A new set of postage stamps pays tribute to the male voices of Australian sports commentary - but there have long been female sports broadcasters and their voices are getting louder.
There is no moral equivalence between apartheid’s use of race categories and their continued use by the democratic government.
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”.
Women face a number of socio-economic challenges that make it harder for them to access higher education.
All signs point to the Democratic Alliance being in deep turmoil which will affect its strength as South Africa’s official opposition.
Race is the fault line. Prominent black DA figures label attempts to remove leader Mmusi Maimane as an attempt by whites to force black members into a subordinate position.
Because it’s a blend of political influences the transition it is facing has, inevitably, had an existential effect on the Democratic Alliance.
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Political Scientist, University of the Western Cape
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Professor of Political Studies, University of Johannesburg
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Professor of Education, The University of Texas at Austin
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Lenore Stern Professor in the Humanities and Social Sciences, Tufts University
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Professor of Law and Don L. & Mabel F. Endowed Chair in Law, University of New Mexico
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Adjunct Professor of History, University of North Carolina – Charlotte
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Professor of Educational Foundations, Policy and Practice, University of Colorado Boulder
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Professor of American Civics, University of Tennessee
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Associate Professor of Higher Education; Associate Dean for Faculty Development and Diversity; Director of Access and Equity, Steinhardt Institute for Higher Education Policy, New York University
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Professor Emeritus of Legal Studies and Business Ethics; Faculty Director, Wharton Coalition for Equity & Opportunity, University of Pennsylvania
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Professor in Political Science, University of South Africa
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Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies, University of Colorado Boulder
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