In 2015, in the year preceding the centenary of South Africa's oldest historically black university, the University of Fort Hare, the vice chancellor of the university, Dr. Mvuyo Tom, asked academics who were presenting inaugural lectures in that year to specifically reflect on their work and their disciplines in the light of the history of Fort Hare. In this artic...

In 2015, in the year preceding the centenary of South Africa's oldest historically black university, the University of Fort Hare, the vice chancellor of the university, Dr. Mvuyo Tom, asked academics who were presenting inaugural lectures in that year to specifically reflect on their work and their disciplines in the light of the history of Fort Hare. In this artic...

En 1952, l'ANC (African National Congress) lançait sa campagne de défiance (Defiance Campaign) contre les lois d'apartheid à travers un mouvement de désobéissance civile organisée et de nationalisme africain. Le dimanche 9 novembre, la ville d'East London devint un lieu de mobilisation politique lorsque 1 500 sympathisants de l'ANC, de langue xhosa, organisèrent un...

Donald Card (1928–) is a former policeman in South Africa who became the subject of international media attention on 21 September 2004. In a highly publicised and symbolic ceremony of reconciliation inaugurating the Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory Project, he handed back to Mandela two notebooks containing 78 hitherto unknown letters written by Mandela on Robben Is...