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Rhino poaching down in South Africa and Namibia but on the rise in Botswana

Rhino poaching down in South Africa and Namibia but on the rise in Botswana

by Talking Humanities | Mar 3, 2020 | Analysis & Comment, Features, Politics & Law

Professor Keith Somerville, senior research fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies and member of the Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology at the University of Kent, welcomes the news of a dip in the number of rhinos poached in South Africa and...
Dr Abdurahman’s long road to justice

Dr Abdurahman’s long road to justice

by Talking Humanities | Jan 16, 2020 | Analysis & Comment, Features, History & Classics, Human Rights, Politics & Law, Republished, Research & Resources

Martin Plaut, a senior research fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, remembers Dr Abdullah Abdurahman, a leading political voice among South Africa’s ‘coloured’ community whose passionate advocacy changed the course of the country’s legislation and...
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,...
Will South Africa’s national strategy stop the rhino poaching crisis?

Will South Africa’s national strategy stop the rhino poaching crisis?

by Talking Humanities | Feb 21, 2019 | Features

Rhino poaching in South Africa is down by 25 per cent but there is still a mountain to climb, says Professor Keith Somerville, senior research fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies. Rhino conservationists breathed a sigh of relief on 13 February when Nomvula...
South Africa in World War One

South Africa in World War One

by Talking Humanities | Oct 31, 2018 | Archives & Libraries, History & Classics, Human Rights, Politics & Law

In the second of a series of scholarly articles leading up to Armistice Day on 11 November, Martin Plaut, journalist and senior research fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, on what white Afrikaner leaders and black South Africans gained for their show of...
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