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South Africa

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  • Age of Agitation SeriesDebating IdeasSouth Africa

    Female Comrades against Apartheid: Rethinking Youth Activism

    By Emily Bridger
    November 3, 2021
    Gendered activism and the unresolved tensions of youth politics during South Africa's apartheid.
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    Experiencing Covid-19 after Apartheid

    By Amber Reed and Ziyanda Xaso
    October 6, 2021
    Covid containment measures trigger trauma memories in Apartheid survivors
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    Restless Youth, Restless Country

    By Michael Braun
    September 22, 2021
    EFF: A Political Party for the South African Youth?
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  • Books and ControversiesDebating IdeasSouth Africa

    How Class Colours Race – South Africa’s White Workers in Global Context

    By Danelle van Zyl-Hermann
    August 18, 2021
    Book Review: Privileged Precariat: White Workers and South Africa's Long Transition to Majority Rule
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  • Age of Agitation SeriesDebating IdeasSouth Africa

    Fallism’s Faultlines: The Paradoxes of “Fees Must Fall”

    By Sizwe Mpofu-Walsh
    June 16, 2021
    Age of Agitation Series: Paradoxes of the Fees Must Fall Movement in South Africa
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    Culture, Covid and Social Cohesion in Rural Southern Africa

    By Leslie Bank
    March 16, 2021
    Social rules in rural South Africa ahead of the Third Wave
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  • AnthropologyCovid-19COVID-19Debating IdeasDecolonisationSocial PolicySouth Africa

    The Sociology of Ground Zero: The South African Variant and Colonial Prejudice

    By Leslie Bank
    February 25, 2021
    Colonial prejudice: the sociology of Ground Zero
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  • AnthropologyCovid-19COVID-19Debating IdeasEconomies and SocietiesSouth Africa

    Exhumed Bodies: Reburials and Cultural Resistance in Covid Times

    By Leslie Bank Aneza Madini
    February 10, 2021
    Politics of burial during Covid-19 in South Africa
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  • AnthropologyBooks and ControversiesCovid-19COVID-19Debating IdeasPublic HealthSouth Africa

    Plastic Bodies, Public Policy and Popular Anger in Rural South Africa

    By Mark Paterson Leslie Bank
    February 2, 2021
    How the South African Government got it wrong on Covid-19 burials
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    African Voices, African Arguments Podcast, Episode 5: Campaigning Against Corruption: A Discussion with Hennie Van Vuuren

    By Uncategorised
    September 11, 2020
    Campaigning against corruption
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