Black Consciousness activist, Afrikaans poet and revered academic Adam Small has passed away. In his large volume of work he gave voice to the downtrodden – those marginalised by apartheid.
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Forty years after the students uprisings of 1976, South Africa is again in the midst of a political movement led by students.They have changed the tenor and shape of political discussion around education.
Calls for the decolonisation of countries, institutions, the mind and of knowledge are not new. In South Africa, these changes are crucial and long overdue. But they must be carefully thought through.
Democracy resulted in a sea change in the governing ANC. In the past, only highly committed idealists joined the party. Today’s splits and factions are about patronage and clientelism.
Hip-hop artists do it differently in a town in one of South Africa’s poorest provinces. Eschewing the archetypal hip-hop lifestyle, Grahamstown’s rappers propose a surprising alternative.
Colourism - or discrimination based on the skin tone - manifests in different ways across the world. In the main it means that light skin is seen as desirable and dark skin as undesirable.
African academics are steeped in European knowledge systems and ways of teaching. There is a galaxy of African scholarship they can draw from to change this - if they’re brave enough.
South Africa seems more divided than ever on the media, as the governing ANC revives plans for a dreaded tribunal many fear would muzzle the press.
The egalitarian society envisioned by political activists and thinkers Rick Turner and Steve Biko has not been realised. But, they continue to inspire critiques of post-apartheid South Africa.
Black youth are grappling with the question of the meaning of freedom in post-apartheid South Africa. They seek an antidote to their reality wherein blackness continues to be mocked and marginalised.
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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