This article examines the relationship between public libraries and social change in South Africa during the 1980s. It focuses on libraries in selected townships on the Cape Flats. It concludes that debates about the public library’s success or failure as an instrument of social change cannot overlook the idea of contested space in which the live discussion, debate, and circulation of ideas pre...

The Natal Indian Congress (NIC) was revived in 1971 in the context of what has become known as the ‘Durban moment’. This period also witnessed the emergence of the Black Consciousness Movement and an independent trade union movement inspired by the 1973 Durban strikes. Despite a government crackdown and opposition from anti-apartheid groups that asserted that ethnic identities were a relic of t...

The work of William Hutt is well known in the fields of labor economics, monetary economics and political economy. A hundred years after his birth it is appropriate to take note of a less well known work of his, The Economics of the Color Bar. This book, first published in 1964, is an in-depth examination of the origins and implications of apartheid in South Africa his adopted country of reside...

PROBLEM People of color suffer worse health outcomes than their White counterparts due, in part, to limited access to high-quality specialty care. PURPOSE This article describes the events that led to the Bronx Health REACH coalition's decision to file a civil rights complaint with the New York State Office of the Attorney General alleging that three academic medical centers in New York City ...

Abstract At the end of apartheid, South African government adopted laws regulating civil society that are widely seen as “good” laws: designed to encourage and facilitate a thriving sector. In 2019 Ethiopian repealed repressive, decade-old Charities Societies Proclamation replaced it with much more open permissive regulatory system, also aimed at facilitating This article compares Africa's post...

Apartheid's Endless Itineraries Timothy Wright (bio) REMAINS OF THE SOCIAL: DESIRING POST-APARTHEID EDITED BY MAURITS VAN BEVER DONKER, ROSS TRUSCOTT, GARY MINKLEY, AND PREMESH LALU. Johannesburg: Wits University Press, 2017 For many decades now South Africa has worn the mantle of global exemplarity. During 1980s, was, in Derrida's phrase, "racism's last word" (le dernier mot du racisme), a pla...

O presente artigo analisa, de modo comparativo e crítico, as considerações presentes no banco dados da ONU acerca das práticas discriminação racial apartheid pelo Estado Israel. Mais especificamente, observações conclusivas do Comitê para a Eliminação Todas Formas Discriminação Racial (CEDR) são contrapostas aos relatórios paralelos enviados ele por diferentes ONGs, com ênfase recaindo na apari...