Warhol in Africa: contradictions, complications and conflicts
The Andy Warhol exhibition embodies so many of the contradictions, complications and conflicts in both art and society in contemporary South Africa.
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Why the ‘loss of faith’ in heroes like Mandela may not be such a bad thing
Student activists are losing faith in the legacies of anti-apartheid heroes like Nelson Mandela. Perhaps all South Africans should do the same. It may just be what the country needs for its future.
Africa’s ‘sleeping’ language, |xam, has been written in stone at Oxford university
The ǀxam language has been carved into a new building at Rhodes House to honour the labour and suffering of Africans during colonialism.
Decolonising the curriculum: it’s time for a strategy
There is a risk that because of fatigue, frustration and silencing the important moment created by South Africa’s student movements will pass by with no proper, long-term structural change.
Understanding violent protest in South Africa and the difficult choice facing leaders
There are individual activists and political groupings who believe violent action is legitimate and use the circumstances to actively drive such behaviour.
Why South Africa can’t deliver on the social contract set out in its constitution
South Africa’s problem is that its constitution is a perfect brochure of the nation it aspires to be. But the contractors entrusted with its future have an entirely different project in mind.
Rest in power, Miriam Tlali: author, enemy of apartheid and feminist
Author Miriam Tlali was an intersectional feminist long before this term was coined or its politics made fashionable in South Africa by student movements.
What is RET and what does it want? The Radical Economic Transformation faction in South Africa explained
Despite its vagueness, the RET has become central to the contemporary ANC. It is destined to remain a powerful bloc within the party, and a constant constraint on Ramaphosa leadership.
Compendium of new research celebrates African solutions to national and global problems
Africa is now formally free of colonial rule. Yet, the aim of remembering and furthering the fight for self determination remains relevant as ever.
The Mandela Foundation’s verdict on the Mandela era: it failed …
The foundation founded by Nelson Mandela in 1999 has done a major revision - it has written off most of his reign as comprising “grand symbolic gestures”.
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