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Prof Neil Roos discusses how whiteness operated not only through state violence but also via the bureaucratic disciplining of the white working class. Drawing on archival material and personal memory, he illuminates how apartheid’s structures [...]
Dr Azille Coetzee speaks with remarkable vulnerability and intellectual clarity about the intersections of race, gender, and sexuality within white Afrikaner identity. Drawing on personal memoir and theoretical inquiry, she examines how the apartheid regime [...]
This episode delves into the racialised logic of physical education in twentieth-century South Africa and its entanglement with whiteness, nationalism and citizenship. Dr Anell Stacey Daries examines the history of the Physical Training Battalion [...]
On Thursday, 29 May, the AVReQ community gathered for a seminar featuring research proposal presentations by our first-year MA and PhD students. This annual event forms a core part of our academic development programme, [...]
Professor Susanne Klausen’s lecture, “Policing the Desire of the Treacherous ‘Blood-Mixer’,” was a powerful examination of apartheid’s moral panic over interracial intimacy and the state’s brutal attempts to manage white masculinity in service of [...]
Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela Three years after the barbaric incident at Stellenbosch University where a white student, Theuns du Toit, urinated on a black student’s study material, a court has acquitted him of criminal charges. A legally sound outcome [...]
A powerful and sobering lecture by legal scholar and public intellectual Prof Joel Modiri, who headlined 7th Stellenbosch University's Annual Africa Day Lecture.
On a rainy afternoon in Stellenbosch, members of the academic community gathered at the University Museum for a special event. Uncovering / Recovering the Past was not only a presentation of art or legal [...]
In this powerful and unflinching lecture, Prof Joel Modiri challenges us to reckon with South Africa’s unfinished liberation and the symbolic transformation that has failed to deliver substantive justice. Drawing on the life and legacy [...]
In this compelling talk, Dr Robyn Gill-Leslie examines how the apartheid regime created a bureaucratic fiction to disguise political killings, using the case of Imam Abdullah Haron as a focal point. She draws on Veena [...]
