South Africa has the worst known figures for gender-based violence for a country not at war. At least one in three South African women will be raped in their lifetime. The rates of sexual violence against women and children, as well as the signal failure of the criminal justice and health systems to curtail the crisis, suggest an unacknowledged gender civil war. Yet narratives about rape contin...

This article critically examines the development of an innovative approach to educational broadcasting in post-apartheid South Africa. Examining the policy background and the public debate sparked by the controversial drama series, Yizo Yizo, it is argued that the spatial restructuring of media markets re-articulates the sites and scales at which media practices and citizenship are connected. Y...

Despite the relative freedoms gained after transition to democracy in 1994 South Africa, dominant narratives of Whiteness stemming from settler-colonial and apartheid legacies White supremacy remain pervasive within all structures post-apartheid society, including identity construction racialisation first-generation mixed-race people. This research explored how influence among youth Africa. In-...

Resumo A África do Sul, aos 25 anos após apartheid, experimentou uma eleição presidencial com a maior taxa de abstenção e menor votação partido Congresso Nacional Africano - ANC sua história. agenda foi prioritariamente negativa: corrupção no governo federal, desemprego violência urbana. Argumentamos que mágoa rancor apartheid permanecem entre os sul-africanos sustentam adesão ao em eleições de...

In July 1969, the Dryden Society, a University of Cambridge performing arts group, arrived in South Africa for three month tour. Prior to its departure from United Kingdom, group’s decision break cultural boycott, imposed response apartheid, had already caused significant protest. This article discusses nature campaign stop tour, as well highlighting how British government became involved. The ...

In 1960, the Northern Drivers’ Union of New Zealand instituted its anti-racism policy. How this came about, and what it meant for union struggles in following two decades, are central concerns article. Effectively, implementation democratic organising principles within assisted formation policy practice. officials linked domestic racism with experiences black workers under apartheid South Afric...

The initial popular reception of Damon Galgut’s Promise (2021) has overlooked issues gender in the text, favouring instead more narrow allegorical readings race. In response to this, this article emphasises novel’s engagement with distinctly gendered nature transition from apartheid, focusing on representation white masculinities text. This raises concerns about how these are depicted. Through ...

As elsewhere in the world (Frölich & Holtz-Bacha, 2003; Murray & Moore, 2003), journalism in South Africa is still, after decades, trying to find its niche within the university scholarly environment. Since the turn to democracy in 2004, journalism and journalism education have experienced profound changes. Technologically, reporting has moved from a position where conventional printed media, r...