... approved continuing affirmative action, one decade after its Supreme Court made it legal in higher education, but many Brazilian institutions target public school students rather than explicitly admitting applicants on the basis of race. And South Africa’s constitution recognizes the possibility of fair...

...Hlonipha Mokoena In South Africa, where the current movement to decolonize universities and cultural institutions has drawn international attention, its arguments often clash with the historical realities of apartheid. [email protected] Against Decolonisation: Taking African...

...Hlonipha Mokoena The South African government’s COVID-19 pandemic response has revealed that the rhetoric and infrastructure of apartheid remain embedded in the emergency rule playbook. They also continue to influence citizens’ own responses to crises. South Africa apartheid race COVID-19...

... of the University of Johannesburg, the University of the Witwatersrand, the Gauteng provincial government, and local government—found that this has been the fastest-growing housing market in Gauteng, South Africa’s wealthiest province. The report shows that between 2001 and 2016, the number of backyard dwellings...

...Roger Southall The precarity of daily existence for so many black middle-class South Africans is heightened by dependence on political connections. © 2019 Current History. All rights reserved. 2019 The Regents of the University of California Roger Southall South Africa apartheid race...

... Gordon economic sanctions Iraq Iran South Africa Cuba United States United Nations Security Council international finance banking insurance shipping trade humanitarian 3In 1919, trying to persuade the United States to join the League of Nations, President Wood-row Wilson touted...

... of the University of California Gina Ziervogel Southern Africa Botswana Mozambique South Africa Zimbabwe climate change adaptation Limpopo River Basin Cape Town drought floods urban water management agriculture 181 Adaptation is only going to get more challenging as changes...

... of California Xolela Mangcu South Africa Cyril Ramaphosa Jacob Zuma Thabo Mbeki African National Congress corruption Nelson Mandela institutions education race PERSPECTIVE A Fresh Start for South Africa? XOLELA MANGCU 194 In my book The Arrogance of Power: South Af-rica s Leadership...

... Sanyu Mojola HIV AIDS Africa South Africa antiretroviral therapy foreign aid Uganda Zimbabwe sex marriage homosexuality public health 170 Many African countries are still a long way from being able to sustain their own prevention and treatment efforts, and continued momentum...

...Marcel Paret South Africa's organized labor movement is now, arguably, weaker and more fragmented than at any other time in the past three decades. Disagreement over how unions should relate to the ruling party, the ANC, is central to this fragmentation. © 2017 Current History. All rights...

...Edward Lahiff Since the end of apartheid, South African land reform has struggled—and so far failed—to overcome extreme inequalities and historical injustices … © 2016 Current History. All rights reserved. 2016 The Regents of the University of California Edward Lahiff South Africa...

... of the University of California Ebenezer Obadare Africa Internet diaspora public sphere Cecil Rhodes protests South Africa gay rights students 188 [There] appears to be a generally more assertive public sphere, with an ebul- lience strikingly in excess of the technological resources at its...

...Hlonipha Mokoena South Africa has reinvented itself repeatedly throughout its history. Now the post-apartheid “freedom generation” is searching for a way to realize its aspirations for a better life. After Freedom: The Rise of the Post-Apartheid Generation in Democratic South Africa...

...Amrita Narlikar New heavyweights have their own preferences when it comes to global burden sharing. © 2014 Current History. All rights reserved. 2014 The Regents of the University of California Amrita Narlikar rising powers Brazil Russia India China South Africa trade negotiation...

... Elke Zuern South Africa Jacob Zuma apartheid inequality poverty protest local government corruption 175 While the ANC retains a firm grip on power, factionalism within the party, corruption, and an increasing distance from ordinary people undermine its ability to deliver on its promises...

... The Regents of the University of California fertility Richard Cincotta Africa women's rights AIDS demographics South Africa Botswana Zimbabwe Kenya 184 Fertility decline and a maturing age structure typically prove more indicative of future human development . . . than do shifts toward...

...William W. Finan, Jr. A new book traces the political development of South Africa and Zimbabwe through the personal histories of leaders who started as revolutionaries and became presidents. Southern Africa: Old Treacheries and New Deceits , by Stephen Chan . Yale University Press , 2011...

...R.W. Johnson So factionalized and divided is the ANC that it is not clear that either the party or the country is still governable. © 2010 Current History. All rights reserved. 2010 The Regents of the University of California Blade Nzimande South Africa Jacob Zuma African National...

... financial crisis South Africa Kenya Senegal Ghana economics poverty institutions oil 193 Near-term prospects for the region s economies are encouraging when one con- siders the enormous shocks of the recent crisis and the depth of the global down- turn. African Economies New Resilience peteR...

... South Africa Morgan Tsvangirai African National Union–Patriotic Front 210 BOOKS The tragic conditions in the nation of Zimbabwe represent everything that the forces of world order had supposedly outgrown. A third of the country s 12.5 million people, once well fed, go hungry unless...