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One View of South Africa

Respected Africanist Allison Drew has an insightful piece about the current state of South African politics and society in Political Insight. Her’s is a fairly sobering take on South Africa in 2010.

[The article is very much worth reading, but I do wish the editors had not been so sloppy as to provide a map from 1994 which not only does not depict South Africa’s current provincial borders or names, and which uses Afrikaans as its predominant language.]

 

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Derek Catsam

Derek Catsam is a Professor of history and Kathlyn Cosper Dunagan Professor in the Humanities at the University of Texas of the Permian Basin. He is also Senior Research Associate at Rhodes University. Derek writes about race and politics in the United States and Africa, sports, and terrorism. He is currently working on books on bus boycotts in the United States and South Africa in the 1940s and 1950s and on the 1981 South African Springbok rugby team's tour to the US. He is the author of three books, dozens of scholarly articles and reviews, and has published widely on current affairs in African, American, and European publications. He has lived, worked, and travelled extensively throughout southern Africa. He writes about politics, sports, travel, pop culture, and just about anything else that comes to mind.

Areas of Focus:
Africa; Zimbabwe; South Africa; Apartheid

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