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Spotlights

  • Kanene: The untold stories of psychological wounds of combat after South Africa’s demobilisation among Black SANDF soldiers

    Spotlight on Mental Health

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    The Black SANDF soldiers’ experiences are unique, shaped by the armed struggle, long and repeated deployments, constant threats, and repeated exposure to the horrors of battle. Traumatised Black SANDF members’ journeys reveal the profound impacts of combat trauma, often echoing the symptoms of CPTSD, characterised by an ongoing sense of danger and a fractured sense of self.

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  • Colorblind Tools: Global Technologies of Racial Power

    Prize winning titles

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    Winner of the 2023 Association for Ethnic Studies Outstanding Book Award

    “A meticulous traversal across the worlds of history, culture, law and politics, this treatise is at once a statement on the continued power and relevance of Critical Race Theory as well as an express example of why it continues to threaten those who would wish to blind the world from the continued rule of white supremacy.” —Ndumiso Dladla, author of Here is a Table: A Philosophical Essay on History and Race in South Africa

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  • Diaspora in the MENA Region and Beyond

    Book of the month

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    Diaspora in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Region and Beyond is very relevant for emerging multidisciplinary Diaspora studies.

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Announcements

As citizens, we need to be very careful when senior police officers accuse others in the police system of wrong doing. The claims may be true but there is a long and murky history of factionalism in the police and this could well be another example. We need to insist that police serve the people, not factions.

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Steven Friedman is a public commentator and an academic, currently employed as a Research Professor at the University of Johannesburg. He has been writing on South African politics for the entire democratic period both as a scholar and public commentator. He has published books on South Africa’s transition to democracy, the role of the trade union movement, and current South African politics. He has also written columns and articles for several South African newspapers. His writing seeks to use academic research to shed light on current politics but to ensure that this is conveyed in a way easily understood by people who have no academic training.

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