A certain amount of political baggage had to be shaken off before such a feat could be realised – not just in the right words, but in the right spirit.
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Political secularism in South Africa is shaping into a tense contest between the relative ambitions of state and religious actors.
In the 1980s, university administrators called the police on anti-apartheid protesters, threatened to revoke their scholarships and ordered staff to demolish encampments.
In his work Abdullah Ibrahim looked to the past to offer a vision of the future.
Ties between the two nations date back to Tanzania’s solidarity with the anti-apartheid struggle.
Ben & Jerry’s decision to no longer sell ice cream in the occupied territories comes as Israel continues to lose the support of a group of Americans who once were stalwart allies.
The challenge for the deepening of South Africa’s democracy is that the very existence of vanguardism prevents the realisation of empowered citizens.
From the early 1980s, local governments in the UK began renaming streets, housing estates and community centres after Mandela as an act of protest.
If companies in key industries collectively shunned the Chinese market, that would force China’s leaders to take notice, with less risk of blowback.
“Shaming campaigns” have been successful in attracting attention to transnational issues like inhumane working conditions and environmental degradation. But shaming guilty corporations is only the first step.
If Trump forsakes US support for the 2015 Paris Climate Accord as well as Obama’s bilateral climate agreement with China, the resultant rise of global warming will wreak havoc throughout Africa.
How did Sol Plaatje, a man with only four years of formal schooling, become one of South Africa’s most brilliant and committed public educators?
Fifty years ago US Senator Robert F Kennedy visited South Africa. A new documentary about RFK’s visit puts the spotlight on an important part of the country’s history.
The Anti-Apartheid Movement reminds us that ordinary people can make a difference in the fight for workers’ rights, even halfway across the planet.
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Professor of Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Postdoctoral fellow at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in the ERC funded project APARTHEID-STOPS that studies the transnational circulation of anti-apartheid expressive culture., Hebrew University of Jerusalem
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Professor of History, Western Illinois University
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Director, Centre for Higher and Adult Education, Stellenbosch University
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Honorary Professor of International Relations, University of the Witwatersrand
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Distinguished Professor, Arthur J. Gosnell Professor of Economics, & Head, Department of Sustainability, Rochester Institute of Technology
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Lecturer in Directing & Writing in Film/TV, University of the Witwatersrand
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Extraordinary Professor, Stellenbosch University
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Assistant Professor of History, University of California, Santa Barbara
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Associate Professor of Government, St. Lawrence University
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Senior Researcher and Associate, Mapungubwe Institute for Strategic Reflection
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Researcher at History Workshop, University of the Witwatersrand
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Senior Lecturer in Interdisciplinary Theology, University of the Free State
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Associate professor, University of the Free State