History Matters
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What to make of the war of words that has erupted between Jonathan Jansen and Jessie Duarte? Briefly, ANC spokesperson Duarte is demanding that recently installed University of the Free State Rector Jonathan Jansen apologise for calling Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga a “lazy and incompetent minister, if one takes into account her record as [...]
Continue reading...Monday, July 28, 2008
Development Dialogue at the Centre fro the Book
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WISER invites you to Steffen Jensen’s Book Launch and Panel Discussion on Race and gangs in the townships [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, July 12, 2008
Ebrahim Fakir - Politics in Zimbabwe, like politics everywhere, is tendentious and fractious, characterized by ideological nuance, policy variation and contending political trajectories, even within relatively coherent political parties. Zimbabwean politics, however, has displayed these characteristics to an unusual degree. It is a sad history …
Continue reading...Friday, July 11, 2008
Thomas Alberts - The implication that the fate of Zimbabwe is tied to the peculiarities of its ruler’s personality is hardly novel nor unique to Zimbabwe, though the word ‘fate’ might not carry the same weight in democracies as it does in dictatorships. But even in democracies, the politics of saving face is underestimated …
Continue reading...Thursday, July 3, 2008
Heidi Holland’s presentation at the Difficult Dialogues panel discussion at the University of Cape Town, 1 July 2008 …
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Dr. Wilmot Jame’s presentation at the Difficult Dialogues panel discussion at the University of Cape Town, 1 July 2008 …
Continue reading...Thursday, July 3, 2008
Dr. Mamphela Ramphele’s presentation at the Difficult Dialogues panel discussion at the University of Cape Town, 1 July 2008 …
Continue reading...Friday, June 27, 2008
Public conversation on Zimbabwe with Desmond Tutu, Mamphela Ramphele, Heidi Holland, and Wilmot James
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Sunday, July 19, 2009
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