Category: Opinion

Klaus Bachmann, SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities and Gerhard Kemp, University of the West of England Political actors in Tanzania have in recent years demanded compensation from Germany … Read More

Gwen Ansell, University of Pretoria The history of South Africa’s struggle against apartheid (separatist white minority rule) is taught only through the broadest of brushstrokes in the country’s schools. So … Read More

Rafaël Verbuyst, Ghent University When Professor Henry Charles “Jatti” Bredekamp began his career as a historian of early Cape Town in South Africa, there was still a commonly held myth … Read More

Mthobeli Ngcongo, University of the Free State and Sifiso Mnisi, University of Johannesburg In South Africa, a skhothane is a young, fashionably dressed black urban resident who engages in destructive … Read More

Roger Southall, University of the Witwatersrand “Race” continues to have much political salience in South Africa, a country where, in the past, perceived differences of skin colour were used to … Read More

Sisanda Nkoala, University of South Africa; Blessing Makwambeni, Cape Peninsula University of Technology, and Trust Matsilele, Cape Peninsula University of Technology The number of South African internet users has nearly … Read More

Rebecca Ackermann, University of Cape Town and Wendy Black, Iziko Museums of South Africa Picture your typical human evolution museum display. You walk into a dimly lit space with glass … Read More