How women's untold histories shaped South Africa's national poet: Keorapetse Kgositsile with US author Alice Walker, 1996. Anacleto Rapping/Los Angeles Times/Getty ImagesKeorapetse Kgositsile, the South African-born poet who passed away in 2018, lived in exile in the US from 1962 to 1975 and was at the centre of the country’s 1960s and ’70s Black Arts Movement. Informed by his … [Read more...] about How women’s untold histories shaped South Africa’s national poet | The Conversation
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‘The Night Trains’: a masterly study into southern Africa’s murderous migrant system | The Conversation
'The Night Trains': a masterly study into southern Africa's murderous migrant system: ShutterstockIt would be a truism to say that the functions of trains in modern history have been diverse and multifarious. Steam engines were drivers of the British industrial revolution, and the motors of internal westward expansion in North America. Railways were … [Read more...] about ‘The Night Trains’: a masterly study into southern Africa’s murderous migrant system | The Conversation
What Ramaphosa’s COVID-19 decisions say about South Africa’s democracy | The Conversation
What Ramaphosa's COVID-19 decisions say about South Africa's democracy: South African president Cyril Ramaphosa. GCISEarly this year, South African president Cyril Ramaphosa put forward the idea of a “social compact” as a means to consult and build consensus for reviving the country’s ailing economy. He used the same principle to build broad consensus around the national state … [Read more...] about What Ramaphosa’s COVID-19 decisions say about South Africa’s democracy | The Conversation
The voices missing from South Africa’s response to COVID-19 | The Conversation
The voices missing from South Africa's response to COVID-19: A woman making masks in Alexandra, Johannesburg. The South African government hasn't consulted with its citizens on COVID-19. (Photo by Michele Spatari / AFP via Getty Images)Ten days after South Africa reported its first case of COVID-19 on 5 March 2020, the government moved quickly to declare a national state of … [Read more...] about The voices missing from South Africa’s response to COVID-19 | The Conversation
Who has been hit hardest by South Africa’s lockdown? We found some answers | The Conversation
Who has been hit hardest by South Africa's lockdown? We found some answers: Grootvlei, Snake Park, an impoverished suburb on the fringe of one of the biggest mine dumps in Soweto, Johannesburg. Poor people have been hit hardest by the fallout of COVID-19 Mujahid Safodien/AFP via Getty ImagesIn trying to limit the spread of COVID-19, policymakers globally have the difficult task … [Read more...] about Who has been hit hardest by South Africa’s lockdown? We found some answers | The Conversation
