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Introduction
Former Executive Director of the South African Democracy Education Trust (SADET)
Former Board member of the South African Democracy Education Trust (SADET)
Member of Council of the South African Heritage Resources Agency (SAHRA)
Life Fellow of the Centres for Leadership and Public Values at the Graduate School of Business at UCT and the Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy at Duke University
Research Fellow, History Department of the University of the Free State
Member of the Institute of Directors of Southern Africa
Current institution
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September 2000 - December 2009
South African Democracy Education Trust
Position
- Project Coordinator and Executive Director
September 2000 - December 2009
South African Democracy Education Trust
Position
- Project Coordinator and Executive Director
April 1998 - present
Position
- Senior Research Specialist and Chief Research Specialist
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Publications (162)
Who or what is a public intellectual and how are they created? What is the role of the public intellectual in social, cultural, political and academic contexts? What are the kinds of questions they raise? What compels intellectuals to put forward their ideas?
The Fabric of Dissent: Public Intellectuals in South Africa is a pioneering volume, repre...
Background
COVID-19 vaccination rates in South Africa remain low at 51% of the adult population being fully vaccinated, defined as having two shorts of the COVID-19 vaccine with or without a booster. To improve vaccine uptake, a community-based intervention was tested in a high vaccine hesitancy community in South Africa. Trained community youths u...
The 73 South African public intellectuals featured in this volume are distinguished by the differing contexts and issues that shaped their lives, and the period during which they began to play prominent roles and shape public discourse. This volume intends to provoke rather than provide definitive answers to the topic, idea and subject of public in...
A brief biography of Mongane Wally Serote and his contributions.
A brief biography of Kgalema Motlante and his contributions.
A brief biography of Langa Mandla and his contributions.
A brief biography of Ronnie Kasrils and is contributions.
A brief biography of Omar Badsha and his contributions.
A brief biography of Frank Chikane and his contributions.
A brief biography of Trevor Manuel and his contributions.
A brief biography of Thabo Mbeki and his contributions.
A brief biography of Allan Boesak and his contributions.
A brief biography of Ashwin Desai and his contributions.
A brief biography of Barney Desai and his contributions.
A brief biography of Chris Hani and his contributions.
A brief biography of Patrick Bond and his contributions.
A brief biography of Mosibudi Mangena and his contributions.
Background: In 2021 the South African government launched a large COVID-19 immunization campaign with the goal of reaching more than 40 million individuals. Nonetheless, certain international largely internet-based surveys at the time showed a significant proportion of vaccine hesitancy in South Africa. This study aims to determine and co-create wi...
volume 28 The titles published in this series are listed at brill.com/agis.
Paradise Lost. Race and Racism in Post-apartheid
South Africa is about the continuing salience of
race and persistence of racism in post-apartheid
South Africa. The chapters in the volume
illustrate the multiple ways in which race and
racism are manifested and propose various
strategies to confront racial inequality, racism
and the power str...
Attitudes towards people of different race groups in post-apartheid South Africa is the subject of Chapter 8. In this chapter, data from the 2012 SASAS survey is used to examine whether there are different perceptions of the causes of poverty among the various race groups, and to assess whether there are class differences with regards to perception...
This introduction draws from the historiography on South Africa to draw attention to key elements of this society's immediate past, apartheid South Africa, the current era, post-apartheid South Africa, and the objective, a non-racial society, that are related to race and racism. Included is a brief description of tjhe focus of the book and the chap...
This chapter tracks the evolution of white privilege and the creation of a racial hierarchy. Houston argues that white dominance in South Africa has a long history, and the history of South Africa is characterised by processes in which white dominance over the other race groups living in the country left a legacy of white privilege and a racial hie...
South Africa launched a mass COVID-19 vaccination campaign in May 2021, targeting 40 million adults. Understanding predictors of COVID-19 vaccine intentions was required to achieve this goal. We conducted a population-based survey in June–July 2021 using the WHO Behavioral and Social Drivers (BeSD) of COVID-19 Vaccination tool to determine predicto...
Background
South Africa has reported more than half of all COVID-19 cases and deaths in Africa. The South African government has launched a large COVID-19 immunization campaign with the goal of reaching more than 40 million individuals. Nonetheless, certain international, largely internet-based surveys have shown a significant proportion of vaccine...
Society, Research and Power: A history of the Human Sciences Research Council from 1929 to 2019 is an eye-opening analysis of science and politics, and science in political contexts. It is a scholarly reflection on the history of state-based social research and the book also looks at whether science can be impartial to a political context, and to f...
The chapter is divided into three sections. In the first the focus is on several ways in which the HSRC supported research and scholarship on the history of the liberation struggle by providing funding for a range of relevant activities. The second section of the chapter is a review of the various ways in which the HSRC and its researchers engaged...
African development has been largely shaped by developments in the international political system since its integration into this system as colonies, but even more so since independence from the mid-twentieth century. This chapter traces the impact of significant developments in this system on African development since decolonization, and continent...
A vignette on the contribution of Phyllis Naidoo
A vignette on the contribution of Cissie Gool
A vignette on the contribution of Keorapetse Kgositsile
A vignette on the contribution of Fatima Meer
A vignette on the contribution of Rick Turner
A vignette on the contribution of Walter Sisulu
A vignette on the contribution of Ahmed Kathrada
A vignette on the contribution of Beyers Naudé
A vignette on the contribution of Bernard Magubane
A vignette on the contribution of Dora Tamana
A vignette on the contribution of Govan Mbeki
A vignette on the contribution of Archie Mafeje
A vignette on the contribution of Eddie Webster
A vignette on the contribution of Neville Alexander
A vignette on the contribution of Pixley ka Isaka Seme
A vignette on the contribution of James Matthews
A vignette on the contribution of Mazisi Kunene
A vignette on the contribution of Raymond Suttner
A vignette on the contribution of Pallo Jordan
A vignette on the contribution of Zackie Achmat
A report on research commissyoned by the National Development Agency on the requirements to transform the civil society sector in South Africa
A vignette on the contribution of Jakes Gerwel
A vignette on the contribution of Benjamin Pogrund
A vignette on the contribution of Jabulani “Mzala” Nxumalo
A report on research commissioned by the National Development Agency on creating capacities and building capabilities for the civil society sector in South Africa
A report on research commissioned by the National Development Agency on transformative dynamics of South African civil society
The Electoral Commission of South Africa commissioned the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) to review the ballot paper used in national and provincial elections as well as local government elections in South Africa. The ballot paper represents a critical material component of the electoral process, and its design is instrumental to the success...
The Electoral Commission of South Africa commissioned the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) to review the ballot paper used in national and provincial elections as well as local government elections in South Africa. The ballot paper represents a critical material component of the electoral process, and its design is instrumental to the success...
This article analyses the emphasis given to the teaching of the South African liberation struggle history at the country’s universities. Although this history has been analysed in books, chapters, journal articles, conference papers, theses and dissertations by
South African scholars working in various disciplines, it is generally underrepresented...
This article analyses the emphasis given to the teaching of the South African liberation struggle history at the country’s universities. Although this history has been analysed in books, chapters, journal articles, conference papers, theses and dissertations by South African scholars working in various disciplines, it is generally under-represented...
President Xi Jinping stated that 'China champions the development of a community with a shared future for mankind'. This New Era of China's development, President Xi continued, 'will be an era that sees China moving closer to center stage and making greater contributions to mankind'. In short, the 'Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics...
The African National Congress (ANC) of South Africa maintains that it has historically applied the principle of collective leadership, which calls for its leaders to coordinate and integrate their decisions and activities to arrive at effective resolution of problems. In the process, ANC leaders are expected to play complementary roles and share re...
After more than twenty years of democracy in South Africa, the history of the liberation struggle is losing relevance in the national consciousness as the country grapples with the pressing challenges of poverty, inequality and unemployment. Nevertheless, the liberation struggle spawned many heroes and heroines, some whose contributions have been c...
The South African government is drafting the Prevention and Combating of Hate Crimes and Hate Speech Bill, which was to be tabled in Parliament by September 2016. This is despite existing laws governing unfair discrimination, hate speech, crimen injuria and defamation under which acts of racism can be prosecuted. This paper examines the draft Bill...
After more than twenty years since the collapse of socialism in the Soviet Union, the South African Communist Party (SACP) is one of the few socialist parties in the world in an alliance with a ruling party (with similar parties in the same situation in countries such as Brazil, Venezuela and Nepal in recent years) or in power (e.g. the Communist P...
After more than twenty years since the collapse of socialism in the Soviet Union, the South African Communist Party (SACP) is one of the few socialist parties in the world in an alliance with a ruling party (with similar parties in a same situation in countries such as Brazil, Venezuela and Nepal in recent years) or in power (e.g. the Communist Par...
After more than twenty years since the collapse of socialism in the Soviet Union, the South African Communist Party (SACP) is one of the few socialist parties in the world in an alliance with a ruling party (with similar parties in a same situation in countries such as Brazil, Venezuela and Nepal in recent years) or in power (e.g. the Communist Par...
The announcement by Chinese President Xi Jinping at the Johannesburg Summit of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) in December 2015 that peace and security would be one of the 10 major plans to boost cooperation with Africa in the coming three years provides an opportunity to examine the basis for a strategic partnership between the Peopl...
Recollections of people who lived through the 1976 Soweto uprising both there and elsewhere provide more authentic insights than those of outside observers. The authors draw vignettes from interviews with struggle veterans conducted in 2013 by an HSRC research team and external researchers for a research project commissioned by the National Heritag...
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Conference Paper presented at the African Studies Association meeting, San Diego, 19-21 November 2015 on the state of research on and study of the history of the South African liberation struggle. The paper examines research outputs by South African academics and the relevance given to the history of the liberation struggle at South African univers...
The interviews included in this Report cover a range of experiences, including participation in the activities of the Natal Indian Congress in the 1940s and the Congress Alliance – the African National Congress, Congress of Democrats, South African Indian Congress, and South African Coloured People’s Congress – in the 1950s, such as the Defiance Ca...
This chapter, which focuses on the history of the South African liberation, is part of a 9-volume publication arising from the South African Development Community's Hashim Mbita project. The chapter on South Africa is supplemented by edited interviews with a number of veterans of the South African liberation struggle. Some of the other chapters in...
The book is divided into three Parts. It begins with a biographical section, which links significant events in Chris Hani’s life with the historical processes occurring around him. At the same time, it focuses only on those events of significance in his life. This is followed by Part 2 on Hani’s voice, which draws from interviews, published article...
The 1993 Nobel Peace Prize was jointly awarded to South Africans Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela and Frederick Willem de Klerk ‘for their work for the peaceful termination of the apartheid regime, and for laying the foundations for a new democratic South Africa’. This is the officially stipulated reason for awarding the prize to these statesmen found on...
The recent commemoration of Heritage Day and Heritage Month raised questions about the state of social cohesion and national identity in the country after 20 years of democracy. Are we proudly South African? What are we most proud of and what shames us about our country? Benjamin Roberts, Steven Gordon, Jare Struwig and Greg Houston examine trends...
The research which gave rise to this Report was carried out by a team of researchers drawn from the HSRC's Democracy, Governance and Service Delivery (DGSD) Programme and external history and heritage experts. The objective of the research was twofold: (1) to identify new heritage sites that can be included in the National Liberation Heritage Route...
There is a perception among many in the liberation movement that the late President-General of the African National Congress (ANC), Oliver Reginald ‘OR’ Tambo, has not been given sufficient recognition for the role he played in the liberation struggle. They credit Tambo above all else with the role he played in holding the movement together under t...
The research which gave rise to this Report was carried out by a team of researchers drawn from the HSRC’s Democracy, Governance and Service Delivery (DGSD) Programme and external history and heritage experts. The objective of the research was twofold: (1) to identify new heritage sites that can be included in the National Liberation Heritage Route...
