Mahatma Gandhi is one of the most influential personalities in history, celebrated for his advocacy of non-violent resistance. But his dark side is now receiving increased attention.
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The growing revolt against South Africa’s president, amid state capture allegations, is not an isolated event, but part of a much wider pan-African uprising led by the continent’s disaffected youth.
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”.
For the revolutionary Frantz Fanon it was not enough to celebrate the achievements of decolonisation. It was necessary to educate, to strain at the limits of national freedom and to provoke debate.
Robert Sobukwe developed the philosophy of African nationalism to even higher intellectual heights. The lesson for humanity was his ideological stand that there is only one race - the human race.
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Professor of Urban Governance, University of the Witwatersrand
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Professor, Institute of African Studies, University of Leipzig
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Professor of International Law, University of Pretoria
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Research fellow, Institute on Comparative Regional Integration Studies (UNU-CRIS), United Nations University
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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, Institute for Humanities in Africa, University of Cape Town
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Distinguished Professor of Sustainable Development, Stellenbosch University
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Professor of Public Affairs, Tshwane University of Technology
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Department of Philosophy, Rhodes University
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Reader in Law, University of Sussex
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Reader in the School of Law and Politics, University of Hull
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Research Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Governance Innovation, University of Pretoria
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Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Commonwealth Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London
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Executive director, Africa Institute of South Africa, Human Sciences Research Council