by chloe | Dec 27, 2014 | Africa
Originally posted on the School of Advanced Study blog. 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...
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 | Jun 3, 2013 | Africa
Martin Plaut, Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Commonwealth Studies Keith Somerville raised several important points in his review of John Simpson’s controversial coverage of white poverty in South Africa. As a former colleague at the BBC and a fellow research...
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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