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    Omanyano ovanhu koikundaneki yomalungula kashili paveta, Commisiner Sakaria takunghilile Veronika Haulenga

Apartheid

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South Africa

South Africa’s media have done good work with 30 years of freedom but need more diversity

    By Prinola Govenden, University of Johannesburg   In 1992, two years before the end of apartheid, Nelson Mandela bemoaned the state of South Africa’s print media. He said the media’s domination by middle class males from the minority white population posed the biggest threat to freedom of expression in the country. The same year, the African National Congress under his leadership adopted a media charter calling for all […]

todayMay 2, 2024 21

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How the Mandela myth helped win the battle for democracy in South Africa

  By Jonny Steinberg, Yale University   Political history scholar Jonny Steinberg’s 2023 book Winnie & Nelson: Portrait of a Marriage is a double biography of South Africa’s most famous political figures – Nelson Mandela and Winnie Madikizela Mandela – and their role in the country’s struggle for democracy. It’s also a book that shatters countless myths about the couple and the liberation struggle that have been formed in popular […]

todayApril 29, 2024 22

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Business / Economics

South Africa’s security forces once brutally entrenched apartheid. It’s been a rocky road to reform

    By Sandy Africa, University of Pretoria   One of the important tasks that faced South Africa’s democratic government after 1994 was to reform the apartheid-era security apparatus. The African National Congress (ANC), which was voted into power, had a laudable vision in the 1990s for reforming the police, military and intelligence services. Determined that South Africans would never again be subject to the brutality of the security forces, […]

todayApril 22, 2024 30

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Opinion Pieces

After the euphoria of Nelson Mandela’s election, what happened next? Podcast

    By Gemma Ware, The Conversation and Thabo Leshilo, The Conversation   It was a moment many South Africans never believed they’d live to see. On 10 May 1994, Nelson Mandela was inaugurated as president of a democratic South Africa, ending the deadly and brutal white minority apartheid regime. To mark 30 years since South Africa’s post-apartheid transition began, The Conversation Weekly podcast is running a special three-part podcast […]

todayApril 11, 2024 23

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Opinion Pieces

What happened to Nelson Mandela’s South Africa? A new podcast series marks 30 years of post-apartheid democracy

    By Thabo Leshilo, The Conversation   When Nelson Mandela stood in front of the Union Buildings in Pretoria in May 1994 as South Africa’s first democratically elected president, my country was brimming with optimism for its post-apartheid future. I was there and relieved at the prospect of an end to bloodshed. I had seen far too much violence and death in my five-year career as a journalist, covering the […]

todayApril 11, 2024 30

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Trevor Manuel views cadre deployment as the greatest weakness in South Africa at present

SA Former Finance minister and anti-apartheid activist, Trevor Manuel, says the greatest weaknesses in the state at present are cadre deployment and financial management. He gave the keynote address at Daily Maverick’s The Gathering 2024 in Cape Town yesterday. Manuel says his generation has been accused of walking away from an incomplete transition, adding that there was a need for an honest discussion about those aspects that remained undone including […]

todayMarch 15, 2024 41

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Women in South Africa’s armed struggle: new book records history at first hand

    By Thoko Sipungu, Rhodes University   South Africa’s young democracy was a culmination of years of sweat, blood and revolution against the apartheid regime. In the early 1960s, after decades of “non-violence” as a policy of resistance, the African National Congress (ANC) and Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) formed military wings to take the fight to the apartheid regime. Based on the living record and popular discourse, it would […]

todayFebruary 20, 2024 27

Lifestyle

Zuleikha Mayat: South African author and activist who led a life of courage, compassion and integrity

By Saleem Badat, University of the Free State Few Indian South African women have achieved wider public recognition than author, human rights and cultural activist Zuleikha Mayat, who passed away on 2 February 2024. An honorary doctorate from the University of KwaZulu-Natal was just one of many awards bestowed on her during a life that spanned almost 98 years. Mayat was a remarkable pioneer, evocative writer, public speaker, civic worker, […]

todayFebruary 7, 2024 8

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Nelson Mandela’s personal items under the hammer in New York? Why it outraged some, and what’s at stake

    By Duane Jethro, University of Cape Town An identity document, a pair of reading glasses, a hearing aid and a pair of worn shoes. These are just some of Nelson Mandela’s personal items that were due to go on auction on 22 February 2024. A month before the auction was due, the New York-based Guernsey’s auction house put a notice on its website that it was suspending the […]

todayJanuary 31, 2024 4

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