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Ideas

Topic: South African Politics

Publication

Slabbert: A Man on a Mission

Grundlingh, Albert. (2021). Slabbert: A Man on a Mission. Jonathan Ball Publishers. https://booklounge.co.za/product/slabbert-a-man-on-a-mis...

Albert Grundlingh Albert Grundlingh

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Cyril’s Choices

Matisonn, John. 2019. Cyril’s Choices. Missing Ink. http://missingink.co.za/cyrils-choices/

John Matisonn John Matisonn

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Race, decolonization, and global citizenship in South Africa

Okeja, Uchenna. 2019. Race, decolonization, and global citizenship in South Africa. Journal of the African Literature Association, 1–2. http...

Uchenna Okeja Uchenna Okeja

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Building a public service that can deliver change

Raenette Taljaard. 2010. Building a public service that can deliver change. In Neeta Misra-Dexter and Judith February (editors). Testing Dem...

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Vereeniging: Die onvoltooide vrede

Leon Wessels. 2010. Vereeniging: Die onvoltooide vrede. Cape Town: Umuzi/Random House Struik. 367 pp

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The ‘Born Frees’: The Prospects for Generational Change in Post-apartheid South Africa

Mattes, Robert. 2012. The ‘Born Frees’: The Prospects for Generational Change in Post-apartheid South Africa. AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF POLITICA...

Project

We Don't Need Another Hero

In a 2008, post-Polokwane missive to ANC president, Jacob Zuma, declaring his refusal to campaign for the African National Congress (ANC) in the upcoming 2009 general election, recently-deposed South African President Thabo Mbeki famously declared:… I find it strange in the extreme that today cadres of our movement attach the label of a cult of personality to me, and indeed publicly declare a determination to kill to defend your own cause, the personal interests of the personality, Jacob Zuma!

Lindiwe Mazibuko Lindiwe Mazibuko

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Alienation, protest and the idea of a manifesto

The principal aim of this period of writing and research is to complete a chapter from a short book, tentatively entitled Marx@Marikana: Reading Marx in South Africa today.

John Higgins John Higgins

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“We Don’t Need Another Hero”

In a 2008, post-Polokwane missive to ANC president, Jacob Zuma, declaring his refusal to campaign for the African National Congress (ANC) in the upcoming 2009 general election, recently-deposed South African President Thabo Mbeki famously declared:… I find it strange in the extreme that today cadres of our movement attach the label of a cult of personality to me, and indeed publicly declare a determination to kill to defend your own cause, the personal interests of the personality, Jacob Zuma!

Lindiwe Mazibuko Lindiwe Mazibuko

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God, Spies and Lies: How journalists and politicians fought South Africa’s war of ideas, 1800-2015

In the light of the political impasse gripping the country, this study investigates the ideas that made democratic South Africa, through the largely unexplored interaction between its journalists and politicians.

John Matisonn John Matisonn

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Decolonial thoughts

Work at STIAS will be the final draft of four lectures which were delivered in 2013 at the Centre for Indian Studies in Africa (CISA) in Johannesburg under the general topic of Decolonial Thoughts.

Walter Mignolo Walter Mignolo

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On Our Own

This is a writing project that would examine South African politics in exile and how that had an impact on the relationship of political parties inside the country.

Mosibudi Mangena