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By Desmond Thompson Policing in South Africa is under intense scrutiny. In July, KwaZulu-Natal Police Commissioner Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi accused national Police Minister Senzo Mchunu of shielding criminal networks and shutting down sensitive investigations. In response, [...]
The seminar German Colonial Violence in Central Tanzania: Engaging the Afterlives of History formed part of AVReQ’s Bearing Witness series, interrogating practices of memory, museology, and the ethics of bearing witness. Facilitated by Dr [...]
AVReQs recently hosted Dr Katrin Antweiler as part of the Bearing Witness seminar series. Dr Antweiler is a German scholar whose research examines Holocaust memorialisation and its intersections with human rights discourse. The event, [...]
The 2025 edition of the Violent Histories and Repair course, hosted at Stellenbosch University as part of the annual Summer School programme, was once again a great success. Coordinated by Prof Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela and [...]
In June, AVReQ Post-Doctoral fellow Dr Sophia Olivia Sanan participated as a delegate in the ‘Global Cultural Assembly’, hosted by the Humboldt Forum in Berlin. The week long gathering brought together scholars, activists, artists, [...]
As South Sudan continues to grapple with sexual and gender-based violence, which remains one of the most pressing scourges in society, legal scholar Dr Akuch Kuol emphasises the need for comprehensive interventions that go beyond legal reforms. [...]
Dr Allely Albert from Queen’s University Belfast introduced us to the layered complexities of ex-prisoner leadership in restorative justice in Northern Ireland. Her work focuses on the Community Restorative Justice Ireland (CRJI) organisation, where [...]
In June, AVReQ hosted a meaningful exchange with representatives of the European Wasatia Graduate School for Peace and Conflict Resolution, based at Europa University Flensburg. The meeting, held in Stellenbosch, marks the beginning of [...]
In this intellectually rigorous and emotionally resonant conversation, Professors Jacqueline Rose, Vasti Roodt, Jaco Barnard-Naudé, and Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela examine what it means to “think without banisters” in the spirit of Hannah Arendt. Roodt reflects on [...]
Prof Susanne Klausen traces the apartheid state’s obsession with suppressing interracial sex between white men and black women, revealing how Afrikaner nationalism relied on a punitive, puritanical masculinity to preserve its imagined racial order. Drawing [...]
