Category: Opinion

Gibson Ncube, Stellenbosch University Stella Rambisai Chiweshe, affectionately known in Zimbabwe as “the queen of mbira” or “Ambuya (grandmother) Chiweshe”, passed away on 20 January 2023. Chiweshe was born in … Read More

By CityLife Arts Writer GOVERNMENT strategic foresight is a powerful thing when it takes flight. Take the Mzansi Golden Economy Strategy (2011) – which gave birth to the South African Cultural … Read More

Steven Friedman, University of Johannesburg In a recently published book Steven Friedman, who has written extensively on the political and social aspects of apartheid and post-apartheid South Africa, explores the … Read More

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