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Steve Biko married reason with proselytising in ways that made him an excellent organiser. He understood the importance of organising and the need for faith in action.
Rick Turner and Steve Biko both critique the limitations of white liberalism, arguing that it fails to address the root causes of oppression.
The death of NFL great and Hollywood star Jim Brown renews questions about the role of modern-day athletes in political and social issues.
Archbishop Desmond Tutu didn’t stop his fight for human rights once apartheid came to a formal end in 1994. He continued to speak critically against politicians who abused their power.
Klaaste was distressed by what was happening in black communities, where residents faced state terror and political violence. He sought to restore values such as self-help and neighbourly conduct.
Journalists need to hold firmly to the ethical standards that assure audiences their work is reliable and credible.
The book depicts how Onkgopotse Tiro’s time at Turfloop amounted to a revolutionising political script for generations to come.
Fifty years after the founding of South African Students’ Organisation this anti-apartheid movement remains a model for student activists.
Mandela continues to serve as a rare example of a principled politician committed to forgiveness and reconciliation.
Teeming with references to African culture and experience, the couple’s latest work places ‘blackness'at the heart of the Western canon.
Winnie Madikizela-Mandela’s political power stemmed from the visceral connection that she was able to make between the lives of the oppressed black people, and her own.
This new Afro-celebratory sci-fi trendsetter sets out to unsettle and subvert film stereotypes about Africa – and succeeds brilliantly.
As South Africa marks Media Freedom Day, it’s clear that its battle isn’t over. Attacks on journalists continue –through physical intimidation and there’s also the threat of new laws.
The ANC has worked hard to monopolise the history of the anti-apartheid struggle – meaning transformational figures are being left out.
Something really magical is happening at the intersection between jazz and hip-hop at the moment. Many of the artists involved will be playing at Africa’s foremost jazz festival.
University authorities in South Africa have agreed to most fees protesters’ demands. Yet, the protesters keep moving the goalposts. Do they want more than fees to fall?
The foundation founded by Nelson Mandela in 1999 has done a major revision - it has written off most of his reign as comprising “grand symbolic gestures”.
Qunta advocates a reparations fund to accelerate corrective policies, that schools be freed from colonial indoctrination and that African culture should be mainstreamed, especially African languages.
A South African novel, published in 1980 and dealing with the Soweto student uprising four years earlier, still provides lessons for students today.
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Assistant Professor in the history of Southern Africa, Durham University
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Professor of Public Affairs, Tshwane University of Technology
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Associate researcher, University of the Witwatersrand
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Associate Professor in the Department of Journalism, University of the Witwatersrand
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Professor of Urban Governance, University of the Witwatersrand
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Political Scientist, University of the Western Cape
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Senior Lecturer in History, University of Dundee
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Professor of Screen Studies, Manchester Metropolitan University
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Associate Professor and Head of the Department of English Literary Studies, University of Cape Town
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Senior Lecturer, Department of Historical and Heritage Studies, University of Pretoria
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Emeritus Professor, School of Religion, Philosophy and Classics, University of KwaZulu-Natal
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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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Canada150 Research Chair in Gender and African Politics and Visiting Professor, WiSER Wits University, Carleton University
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Research Associate professor, University of Pretoria
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Assistant Professor, California State University, Fresno