South Africa and Sweden: A Story of Solidarity, Trust, and Shared Common Values by Håkan Juholt

“…Sweden was at that stage an industrialised, prosperous, and stable country with many years of economic growth and progress, while South Africa was a repressive apartheid state where the people suffered. A unique aspect of the relationship was that it was driven by the unique people of each of these nations, with a realisation that their common goals could not be reached in isolation but through an interconnectedness that moved mountains and split oceans apart, joining our two nations for endless opportunities, for years to come. …”
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An ongoing search of constant and sustainable Lutheran Theological Education in South Africa in the 21st century. by K. Mashabela, M. Madise

“… This article explores the recent history of Lutheran theological education in South Africa, which is still confronted by the legacy of colonial and apartheid education systems. The latter need to be confronted with liberation and decolonisation systems that reclaim African indigenous identities. …”
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El dilema del huevo y la gallina by Carlos Alberto Crespo Carrillo

“… Haciendo uso de la analogía del dilema del huevo y la gallina, así como de la liberación de humanos esclavizados, la segregación y el apartheid, y recurriendo a definiciones de la corriente principialista de la bioética, la ética ciudadana y la bioética animal, se busca responder a la pregunta sobre qué es posible lograr primero, sin generar valoraciones de orden de importancia: la Liberación animal o el Antiespecismo. …”
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ESPECTROS DE MAMDANI: desafios de uma sociologia da vida política rural na África do Sul contemporânea by Marcelo Carvalho Rosa

“…Um dos principais legados desta obra foi o reforço da percepção de que, em países como África do Sul, as mobilizações que teriam levado a independência ou ao final do apartheid teriam caráter eminentemente urbano - um legado da socialização no mundo dos direitos modernos. …”
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‘God Gave us Legs to Walk!’ by Marizanne Grundlingh

“…The experience of domestic workers is mainly shaped along racial and class lines – this is a result of the remnants of the legacy of apartheid, where many Coloured and African women were dependent on employment in the domestic work sphere. …”
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Documentary film politics and the politics of documentary film by Lieza Louw

“… This paper sets out to consider the production of political documentary films in post-apartheid South Africa at a time when massification of the media and state capture of the South African Broadcasting Corporation, the country’s public broadcaster, silenced oppositional voices. …”
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Defining persistent xenophobic behaviour in South Africa as a case of internalised colonialism by Tamunodein Princewill

“…The de jure factors that fortified South Africa’s apartheid regime indicate that dismantling internalised colonialism and its projection unto other Black demographics in South Africa requires legal fortification. …”
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Setting new standards for health communication in South Africa by Sonja Verwey, Andrea Crystal

“…According to the Director General of Health, some of the crises were the result of the long neglect of apartheid while other crises relate directly to the lack of skill in communication. …”
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Maps and Memory, Rights and Relationships by Sian Sullivan

“…First, I highlight the significance of historical colonial and apartheid contexts generating mapped reorganisations of land and human populations for memories of access and use that exceed these reorganisations. …”
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Solving the Cape Town Puzzle: Class, Politics and Migration in the Informal Food Economy by Graeme Young

“…Cape Town, South Africa, is in many ways a model for this idea: following its post-apartheid democratization process, governments at the local, provincial, and national levels officially recognize the value of informality and have adopted policies to support it. …”
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Miss-represented by Pontsho Pilane, Mehita Iqani

“…The (albeit unsurprising) failure of Glamour magazine to adequately represent a diversity of black femininities is theorised as a result of pervasive neo-liberal, racist and patriarchal structures of power in post-apartheid South Africa. We argue that the case study illuminates a racially charged post-feminist moment, in which black women are represented as valuable only in terms of their proximity to a white ideal, and valued only in terms of their lucrative potential as an aspirant, compliant mass market. …”
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“Pretty as a peach” by Nicola Jones, Sandra Pitcher

“…Wasserman (2007) argues that this could be a consequence of the increased circulation of daily tabloids in the country, which has been a result of an emerging new public that was marginalised by the mainstream press of the apartheid era. However, by taking this argument forward, one becomes entrenched in the wrongful assumption that tabloids are a journalistic evil, and are the epitome of “bad journalism” (Ornekring & Jonssen, 2004). …”
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Cartes et mémoire, droits et relations by Sian Sullivan

“…First, I highlight the significance of historical colonial and apartheid contexts generating mapped reorganisations of land and human populations for memories of access and use that exceed these reorganisations. …”
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Xenophobia in South Africa by Zama Mthombeni

“…This paper aims to problematise the usage of the ‘ubuntu’ ideology as a utopian African ethic to promote ‘universal’ African humanism. It seems that apartheid’s heritage, which produced the present-day South Africa in which these xenophobic events occur, is often overlooked when South Africans are characterised as xenophobic and in need of ubuntu salvation. …”
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Funding, inequalities, and access: An amalgam of challenges in South African higher education by Simangele Constance Cele, Samson Adeoluwa Adewumi

“…This paper explores the source of the problem embedded in the history of South Africa because of the existence and intentions of apartheid and colonialism. A desktop method is used to collect the literature review on funding, inequalities, and access challenges. …”
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IMPLICATIONS OF XENOPHOBIA ON AFRICAN UNITY by AGIDI EJIME PALLY, PHD

“… At the end of apartheid regime, South African Economy became robust, thereby making her a cynosure of other nations especially African Nations. …”
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Analysing the manipulation of the youths, election violence and democratic retrogression in South Africa by Ibrahim Yusuf Didamson

“…Rather than replicating the character of the youths of the 1970s who fought for better education and life as well as the freedom of the black population during the dark days of apartheid, some youths have taken to drugs, election violence while others have become personal security to top politicians owing to difficult economic hardship. …”
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Race, transformation and education as contradictions in a neoliberal South Africa by Isha Dilraj

“… In navigating the complexities of race and inequality in South African society, shadowed by colonialism and apartheid, the term transformation has gained traction as the mantra for growth, retribution, education reform, and economic and societal prosperity. …”
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Twenty-Five Battalion, The Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) Changing the Decorum in the South African Parliament, 2014 to 2018 by Mohau Soldaat

“…Since the twilight of apartheid, the African National Congress (ANC) has dominated the politics of South Africa. …”
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Covid-19, Congregational Worship, and Contestation over ‘Correct’ Islam in South Africa by Goolam Vahed

“…This struggle over congregational prayers brought into the open, differences among Muslims in South Africa that have been simmering for several decades and raised questions as to how to balance the post-apartheid Constitution’s accommodation of religious practices with the needs of a secular state[1]. …”
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