by Talking Humanities | Sep 29, 2016 | Analysis & Comment, Features, Fellowships & Networks
In his second look at the rhino-horn trade debate, Professor Keith Somerville, applauds a recent announcement that rhino poaching in the Kruger National Park is on the decline. But is it really a downward trend, or just a re-orientation by poachers in the face of...
by aseifert | Feb 11, 2015 | Analysis & Comment, History & Classics
On 11 February 1990, the world’s most famous political prisoner was set free after 27 and a half years in captivity. Keith Somerville, a senior research fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies (ICWS) who has been following South African politics for...
by aseifert | Dec 17, 2014 | Analysis & Comment, Events, History & Classics
Keith Somerville, a senior research fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies (ICWS), who was able to observe at first-hand, developments in South Africa, helped to organise the recent Mandela: Myth and Reality conference. Coming a year after the death of the...
by aseifert | Jun 7, 2013 | Analysis & Comment, Features, Politics & Law, Republished
In his recent blog, Martin Plaut, Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Commonwealth Studies, discusses John Simpson’s controversial coverage of white poverty in South Africa. Though poor whites are in a minority, should this mean that the tens of thousands who do live...
