History Matters

Durban police constable Kwesi Matenjwa confesses – on the morning of Saturday, 1 November – how “the great white shark”, City Manager Michael Sutcliffe, ordered his unit to evict (without alternative accommodation) 47 desperate people, mostly from the Eastern DRC. Sutcliffe accused the refugees – mainly women and children – of being involved in “crime”, [...]

The Social Justice Coalition announces the launch of the Irene Grootboom Community Lecture Series and a Programme of Action for the Social Justice Coalition (SJC). The SJC will campaign to Protect and Advance Constitutional Rights and Freedoms; we will defend the independence and integrity of the Judiciary and focus on the need to build a [...]

States in Transition Observatory, an ongoing project of the Institute for Democracy in South Africa (IDASA), together with Amnesty International is currently hosting a photographic exhibition at Constitutional Hill exhibiting pictures of victims of torture carried out between the 29 March election and the 27 June presidential election run-off in Zimbabwe 2008. IDASA has made [...]

An upcoming seminar to put in your diary; with Yasmin Sooka, Vincent Nmehielle, and Charles Villa-Vicencio …

Imraan Baccus – The Mugabe regime did not, as some will argue, start off well and slowly descend into authoritarianism. It was always ruthlessly and violently intolerant of opposition ….

The South African History Archive is embroiled in a dispute with the Presidency and it seems the presidency is behaving imperiously  again …

This meeting promises to be an informative discussion with excellent guest speakers …

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 …

Dr. Wilmot Jame’s presentation at the Difficult Dialogues panel discussion at the University of Cape Town, 1 July 2008 …