Reparative Potential of Dialogue in Conflict Transformation In this Masterclass conversation, Chris Spies will speak on the reparative potential of dialogue in conflict transformation. This session aims to unpack the practice of dialogue as a [...]

“Othered space in Über-urbanity”: A Bourdieuvian analysis of the good city and the right city through the Praxis of zoning in Southern Urbanism In this instalment of the Theory 101 series, Dr Herman Geyer (CRUISE) [...]

In reflecting on the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) and on 30 years of democracy, we focus on the stories of Nomonde Calata and Seipati Mlangeni, widows of Bheki Mlangeni and Fort Calata who [...]

Professor Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela and AVReQ are to present the 2024 Stellenbosch University Vice-Chancellor’s Annual Lecture to be delivered by Professor Mosa Moshabela. This series of lectures is jointly coordinated with the Centre for Collaboration in Africa (CCA) and hosted [...]

As we commemorate 30 years of democracy in South Africa, this event is framed around the legacy of Imam Abdullah Haron. This reflective gathering will delve into the profound contributions of Imam Haron, focusing on [...]

Based on my concerns with social justice, equity, diversity and inclusion at universities and in the wider society and with social justice scholarship, in this seminar I engage reparative justice through four vignettes. These encompass [...]

Truth Be Told: Ntombikayise Kubheka – The Bones of Memory Ntombi was an anti-apartheid activist and member of the armed wing of the banned African National Congress (ANC), Umkhonto weSizwe (MK). She worked as [...]

This public lecture draws on Prof John Brewer’s recently published book, Monotheism and Peacebuilding. Brewer will address the opportunities and constraints operating on monotheistic peacebuilding, focusing on the three Abrahamic faiths, Christianity, Judaism, and Islam, [...]

Historians teach us that in South Africa’s colonial and apartheid history, race was made and maintained through the violent regulation of sex, intimacy and familial love; that to understand Afrikaner whiteness and the violence [...]

Drawing on his own family’s story and others, Roos explores how working-class whites frequently defied particular aspects of the apartheid state but seldom opposed or even acknowledged the idea of racial supremacy, which lay [...]

Prof Joel Modiri to deliver the 7th Annual Stellenbosch University Africa Day Lecture This year’s lecture, titled “The Three Deaths of Steve Biko: Towards a Jurisprudence of the Irreparable,” marks a significant moment in our [...]

Policing the Desire of the Treacherous ‘Blood-Mixer’: State Imposition of Afrikaner Puritan Masculinity on White South African Manhood during Apartheid For centuries in the region that became South Africa there were relatively few social [...]