Category: Opinion

Archie Dick, University of Pretoria On the advice of the State Librarian one fine day in the 1970s, a truck transported thousands of books and magazines from Pretoria’s Central Police … Read More

Gibson Ncube, Stellenbosch University “No one leaves home unless home is the mouth of a shark.” This is how British Somali poet Warsan Shire begins her now famous poem called … Read More

Alan G Morris, University of Cape Town The discipline of physical anthropology has a dark, often fraught past. It was misused to justify slavery and even genocide. In this edited … Read More

James Muzondidya, University of Zimbabwe and Munyaradzi Mushonga, University of the Free State Zimbabweans are set to cast their votes in key parliamentary and local government by-elections on 26 March … Read More

Paulo Moreira, Universidade de Lisboa Diébédo Francis Kéré has become the first African and the first black person to be awarded architecture’s highest international honour, the 2022 Pritzker Architecture Prize. … Read More

Omphemetse Sibanda, University of Limpopo South African president Cyril Ramaphosa recently announced the appointment of Deputy Chief Justice Raymond Zondo as the next chief justice of the country’s Constitutional Court. … Read More

Anthony Diala, University of the Western Cape Following the death of AmaZulu King Goodwill Zwelithini on 12 March 2021 in South Africa, the royal family convened on 24 March 2021 … Read More