The decision by South Africa’s Film and Publication Board to ban the film Inxeba has been widely criticised.
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South Africa’s idea of radical economic transformation is missing a critical element.
In a society like South Africa’s that is increasingly becoming polarised, simplified opinions should be approached with caution.
The obituary of the Zuma administration can be summed up with its ethos: grab as much and as fast as you can.
The International Olympic Committee has banished dopers from the Winter Games. Shame it hasn’t treated North Korea, a noted human rights violator, with the same resolve.
Hugh Masekela’s itinerary-in-exile was loud and clear in his songs.
Africa’s immediate challenge is to develop closer partnerships with those opposing US President Donald Trump.
A groundbreaking High Court ruling outlawing the spanking of children in South Africa has outraged some Christian bodies that claim parents are entitled to hit their children in a “godly way”.
Writing and rewriting black sporting history is a means of redressing exclusion.
Afrikaners in post-apartheid South Africa struggle with a historical sense of inferiority that reinforces their whiteness.
The Steinhoff corporate scandal will do South Africa a huge service if it makes the point that corruption and mismanagement have nothing to do with race.
Proposed changes to South Africa’s labour laws would make it almost impossible to strike and render the planned national minimum wage unenforceable.
Extensive research has been done on poverty and inequality in South Africa but more is needed to better understand the status quo and mainly inter-sectional factors that drive inequality.
The single greatest failure of current punditry is the refusal to recognise that context matters. A one-size-fits-all approach to solving Zimbabwe’s complex set of problems simply won’t help.
The unprecedented media interest in the first human heart transplant 50 years ago transformed many of the rules that governed the relationships between medicine and the media.
A focus on collaboration among African universities and research institutions is crucial in developing national policies that meet the principles of open data while keeping it safe from exploitation.
Farm dwellers’ conclusion is that the politics associated with land is not about an organised emancipatory movement. Farm dwellers are mainly preoccupied with daily survival strategies.
South Africans supporting visiting New Zealand rugby teams took root in a tumultuous time as an expression of defiance against apartheid.
South Africa’s perilous decline under Jacob Zuma’s presidency is set out in two non-fiction books that provide unsettling, but essential reading.
While many South African police officers, who were born into poverty, grew to appreciate the job, they want more for their children - careers requiring degrees - and work to provide them.
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Professor of Political Studies, University of Johannesburg
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Associate of the Gordon Institute for Business Science, University of Pretoria
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Extraordinary Professor, Department of Political Sciences, University of Pretoria
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Associate Professor Sport History, Stellenbosch University
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Professor of Sociology, University of the Witwatersrand
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Senior Lecturer (Radical Humanities Laboratory, University College Cork), University College Cork
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Senior Research Fellow, Centre for the Advancement of Scholarship, University of Pretoria., University of Pretoria
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Political Scientist, University of the Western Cape
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Distinguished Reserach Professor, Southern Centre for Inequality Studies, University of the Witwatersrand
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Senior Research Fellow, Horn of Africa and Southern Africa, Institute of Commonwealth Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London
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Professor, Sociology, University of the Western Cape, Nelson Mandela University
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Honorary Professor of International Relations, University of the Witwatersrand
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Professor of Urban Governance, University of the Witwatersrand
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Senior Lecturer in History, University of Dundee
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Professor of Public Affairs, Tshwane University of Technology