The life and work of seminal South African writer, intellectual and politician Sol Plaatje seems more relevant than ever. We look into some of the latest scholarly inquiry.
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A survey shows that support for land reform in South Africa differs according to race.
In practice, land expropriation in South Africa will be a matter of deciding which descendants of the dispossessed are entitled to it.
After South Africa’s first democratic election in 1994, the previously oppressed and dispossessed black majority hoped for constitutional restitution of their land. This has largely failed.
The centennial publication of Sol Plaatje’s seminal, ‘Native Life’ is a timely reminder of his estimation of intellectual work, in contrast to the current disparagement of ‘clever blacks’.
Top contributors
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Professor and Research Theme Leader of the Flourishing Life Research Theme, University of the Free State
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Professor of History, University of Botswana
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Campus Principal: Strategic Leadership and Management, Nelson Mandela University
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Professor of African Literature, University of the Witwatersrand
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Research Director: Developmental, Capable and Ethical State (DCES) research division, and Coordinator of the South African Social Attitudes Survey (SASAS), Human Sciences Research Council
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Associate professor, University of the Witwatersrand