by chloe | Feb 2, 2018 | Africa
by Martin Plaut, Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Commonwealth Studies Violent politics in a violent society South African elections take place against a background of violence. The ruptures of the apartheid era have been carried over into post-apartheid society,...
by Jack Saffery-Rowe | Jul 22, 2016 | Africa, Human Rights
by Martin Plaut, ICWS Senior Research Fellow On Friday 27th of May this year South Africa’s state owned broadcaster – the SABC – announced that it would will no longer broadcast footage of people destroying public property during protests. The SABC’s Chief Operating...
by chloe | Dec 22, 2014 | Africa
Trevor Grundy is a British based journalist who lived and worked as a reporter and broadcaster in Central, Eastern and Sothern Africa from 1966-1996. Today he is an author and researcher based in Kent, Southern England. trevor.grundy@zen.co.uk It’s 20 years since the...
by commonwealth-oral-history-project | Nov 18, 2013 | Uncategorized
By Keith Somerville President Jacob Zuma has reacted angrily to the use of the term ‘born frees’ for the generation of young South Africans who will get their first chance to vote in next year’s elections. Speaking at a voter registration drive in Atteridgeville, west...
by commonwealth-oral-history-project | May 30, 2013 | Africa
Keith Somerville, Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies It is hard these days to get the ANC and the opposition Democratic Alliance (DA) to agree on anything. But the BBC’s World Affairs Editor, John Simpson has managed it. How? With a...
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