Faced with the same problem, South Africa is turning to the familiar toolkit to explain a recurrent problem.
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South Africans seem to be fascinated with the way in which spying is entwined in the country’s politics.
Colonialism and apartheid sought to make traditional leaders accountable to white officials by tying them to land.
South Africa’s data collection is constantly improving. That’s especially true when it comes to metrics that weren’t collected or were distorted for political purposes during apartheid.
Politicians oppose toll roads on Johannesburg’s highways, yet they are textbook example of progressive taxation that favours the poor.
During the apartheid period in South Africa – 1948 to 1994 – a lively intellectual culture of opposition emerged on some of the country’s university campuses and within the broader anti-apartheid movement…
The politics of Jonas Gwangwa’s music have stayed constant over the years, and are also apparent in the eight albums he has released in South Africa since returning from 30 years of exile.
Why social work needs a global truth and reconciliation commission.
Inequality persists in post-apartheid South Africa, reflecting the distribution of power. Reversing this will require changing the social processes and relations that underpin it.
The Timol ruling will not only have implications for crimes under apartheid, but also put the focus on torture within the South African Police Service.
The major issue is why this kind of research was being produced 25 years after the end of apartheid.
In matters of policy-making and governing, understanding the systemic complexity of interrelated forces is crucial to avoiding failure.
In South Africa’s criminal justice system post-1994, the Timol case is the first to enact what can be properly understood as restorative justice.
The Dutch holiday on May 4 that commemorates the country’s dead from World War II and after reveals how Dutch policy divides people along racial lines and ignores the Indonesian dead in that war.
Nelson Mandela’s dream of a great rainbow nation has been badly but not fatally undermined by corruption, violence and inequality.
To claim that protests are being organised suggests sinister motives. But all protest is organised. So are cake sales and shopping expeditions.
Fifty years after the founding of South African Students’ Organisation this anti-apartheid movement remains a model for student activists.
The action plan offers no information about budgets, oversight, clear standards for measuring progress or accountability mechanisms.
There is a huge divide between what is important right now and what the election is likely to be about.
A collection of prison letters provides a peek into the suffering of South African liberation hero, Robert Sobukwe.
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