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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Roundtable Discussion from the Annual Desmond Tutu Centre for Religion and Social Justice Public Lecture on Economies of Violence by Sa’diyya Shaikh, Fatima Seedat, Farah Zeb

“… In South Africa, the month of August is marked by two significant events in the country’s history: The anti-apartheid women’s march which hap-pened on 9 August 1956 and the Marikana massacre on 16 August 2012, in which 34 miners were killed by the police at the Lonmin mine. …”
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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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Generosity as a Constitutive Element in African Customary Law: Some Thoughts on Muvhali v Lukhele (21/34140) [2022] ZAGPJHC 402 (18 July 2022) by Ntando Sindane

“…If understood and applied correctly, African customary law can be exemplary for other disciplines of law in terms of achieving some of the transformative aspirations of the post-apartheid constitutional order. …”
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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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« Histoires perturbées, passés retrouvés », une introduction by Sian Sullivan, Michèle Baussant, Lindsey Dodd, Olivette Otele, Irène Dos Santos

“…Our aim has been to interrogate relationships between oral histories and amateur histories with more formal written archives and historiography in a series of disrupted settings: evictions in colonial and apartheid west Namibia (SULLIVAN); memories and historical interpretations of the Egyptian Jewish diaspora (BAUSSANT); the evacuation of children in Second World War France (DODD); recent maritime exodus of migrants from Africa (OTELE); and rupture from a hegemonic imperial-nostalgic narrative in Portugal (DOS SANTOS). …”
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HOUSEHOLD DEBT AND INTEREST RATES: A CASE STUDY OF SOUTH AFRICA by Kgomotso Molefe, Ashley Mutezo

“…The period analysed captured most important periods, such as the end of the Apartheid era, the National Credit Act and the financial crisis. …”
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South Africa: A Growing Embrace of Feminist Foreign Policy? by Jo-Ansie van Wyk

“…These developments have not gone unnoticed in South Africa, where historical relations between Sweden and the country’s liberation movements endure in post-apartheid South Africa. Unlike Sweden, South Africa never adopted or declared a feminist foreign policy due to historical and cultural reasons, and different conceptualisations of women, gender, and feminism. …”
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Challenges in early childhood care and education in impoverished rural communities in KwaZulu-Natal Province, South Africa by Ashnie Mahadew

“…Thirty years after the abolishment of apartheid in South Africa, socio-economic inequalities persist, resulting in a life of adversity for most young children living in poverty. …”
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Reinvigorating South Africa-Sweden Relations: Politics, Economics, And Society by Sven Botha

“…This relationship, as Anna-Mart van Wyk’s article in this special issue illustrates, is firmly rooted in Sweden’s support for the Anti-Apartheid Movement. Since then, both South Africa and Sweden, and indeed the world as a whole, have experienced significant political, economic, and social changes. …”
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El deporte en el campo diplomático: el caso de la Copa Mundial de la FIFA Sudáfrica 2010 by Eduardo Carreño Lara

“…Así, el movimiento anti-apartheid obtuvo simbólicos y cruciales logros en este campo cuando la federación local fue suspendida por la Federación Internacional de Fútbol Asociado (FIFA) de todas las competencias internacionales hasta 1992. …”
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Prospects of Implementing Inclusive Education in TVET Colleges in OR Tambo Inland District, South Africa by Thanduxolo Albert Nomtshongwana, Andrea Mqondiso Buka

“…Inclusive education in South Africa was one of the first steps taken to fight for equality and human rights after apartheid. With inclusive education, schools became less separated and more integrated, to make sure all kids, including those with disabilities, have the same opportunities to learn. …”
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Assessing Teachers’ Views on the Impact of Teacher Unions on Curriculum Development and Implementation by Modumedi Joseph Machaea, Berington Zanoxolo Gobingca

“…The rationale for the design of a transformed and inclusive curriculum was crucial to redress the imbalances of the past apartheid which was characterised by or with segregated curriculum on the basis of colour, disabilities, and gender. …”
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Introducing “Disrupted Histories, Recovered Pasts” by Sian Sullivan, Michèle Baussant, Lindsey Dodd, Olivette Otele, Irène Dos Santos

“…Our aim has been to interrogate relationships between oral histories and amateur histories with more formal written archives and historiography in a series of disrupted settings: evictions in colonial and apartheid west Namibia (SULLIVAN); memories and historical interpretations of the Egyptian Jewish diaspora (BAUSSANT); the evacuation of children in Second World War France (DODD); recent maritime exodus of migrants from Africa (OTELE); and rupture from a hegemonic imperial-nostalgic narrative in Portugal (DOS SANTOS). …”
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Online Education Adaptability for South African Learners with Dyscalculia and Dyslexia using Digital Learning Methods by Winiswa Mavutha, Aradhana Ramnund Mansingh

“…South Africa has a unique political and historical narrative, and almost three decades post-apartheid, there remain stark differences in school and post-school education. …”
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