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Elite ANC politics has failed. South Africa needs a ‘politics of the people’

Elite ANC politics has failed. South Africa needs a ‘politics of the people’

by Talking Humanities | Nov 28, 2019 | Analysis & Comment, Features, History & Classics, Human Rights, Politics & Law, Republished

India’s liberation experience shows us the importance of differentiating between elites and subordinates, rather than just looking at race, says Martin Plaut, senior research fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies (ICWS) at the School of Advanced Study,...
Has the tide turned for South Africa’s rhino poaching crisis?

Has the tide turned for South Africa’s rhino poaching crisis?

by Talking Humanities | Mar 21, 2017 | Analysis & Comment, Features, Politics & Law

Image: White rhino in Hluhluwe-Imfolozi Game Reserve, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa South Africa’s long-awaited statistical report on rhino poaching reveal a 10.3 per cent dip in the numbers illegally killed in 2016 compared to the previous year. However, the picture is...
Amnesties, transitional justice and split personalities

Amnesties, transitional justice and split personalities

by Talking Humanities | Dec 3, 2015 | Graduate Study, Human Rights, Politics & Law, Training and Research

Abe Ncube has just completed the MA in Understanding and Securing Human Rights degree offered by SAS’s Institute of Commonwealth Studies (ICWS) for which he was awarded the Albie Sachs Prize for best dissertation. He explains how he used Zimbabwe as a case study to...

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