This book innovatively explores how universities might be engines of reform and be directed
towards social change. Using rich case studies drawn from South African research, the book …

Cities are charismatic entities. Both in and of themselves by virtue of their history and their
mythologies, but also as sites where charismatic figures emerge on the basis of their …

Less than a decade after the advent of democracy in South Africa, tabloid newspapers have
taken the country by storm. One of these papers—the Daily Sun—is now the largest in the …

The internationalisation of the South African higher education (HE) system, has involved
(among other developments) the steady increase of international student enrolment …

The preamble to the post-apartheid South African constitution states that 'South Africa
belongs to all who live in it, united in our diversity'and promises to 'lay the foundations for a …

This article analyses the media images and public discourses that surrounded the 2011
'open toilet scandal'or what came to be known as the '2011 Toilet Elections' and the 'Toilet …

In 1997, MER Mathivha, an elder of the black Jewish Lemba people of South Africa,
announced to the Lemba Cultural Association that a recent DNA study substantiated their …

Prolonged diagnostic and treatment delays, particularly in settings experiencing concomitant
human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and tuberculosis (TB) epidemics, undermine global TB …

This paper investigates how the South African state has understood the relationship
between HIV and poverty and how individuals and community-based organisations have …

This book uses oral history methodology to record stories of people who experienced the
brunt of racist forced removals in the city of Cape Town, South Africa. Through life stories …