His life in music was a struggle against narrow definitions - of ‘race’, instrumental appropriateness and musical genre.
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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.
Black consciousness in South Africa changed blacks and whites.
The book depicts how Onkgopotse Tiro’s time at Turfloop amounted to a revolutionising political script for generations to come.
Raymond Louw will be remembered as a man of unbending principle.
The persistence of Sam Nzima’s June 16 photograph is remarkable. The shadow in the photograph can be read as a metaphor for the rich debate that this image continues to bring to the surface.
The end of apartheid should have heralded a new South Africa for the generation born at its demise. But that hasn’t happened.
The huge problem of youth unemployment in South Africa appears to be getting worse. New research will hopefully amplify their voices and inform more realistic interventions to combat the monster.
Women students have not been afraid to embrace the label of feminist, leading a wave of university protests in South Africa during 2015 and 2016.
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.
Despite protests in South Africa being largely peaceful, municipalities are placing unreasonable restrictions on the right to protest, which sometimes amounts to a veto of that right.
It is exactly forty years since the Soweto uprising in June 1976 where the South African police met the students with brutal force. How much has changed in terms of policing?
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Senior Researcher: Poverty and Inequality Initiative, Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit, University of Cape Town
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SARChI Research Chair in Geopolitics and the Arts of Africa, Rhodes University
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Assistant Professor in the history of Southern Africa, Durham University
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Research Associate at UCT's Centre of Criminology, Consultant at the Institute for Security Studies (ISS), University of Cape Town
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Professor of Political Science and Chair of the South African Research Initiative in Gender Politics, Stellenbosch University
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Researcher, Centro Brasileiro de Análise e Planejamento (CEBRAP); University of Johannesburg
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Research Associate professor, University of Pretoria
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Associate of the Gordon Institute for Business Science, University of Pretoria
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Professor of Digital Society, University of Glasgow
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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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Caxton Professor of Journalism, University of the Witwatersrand