[Human Sciences Building, University of Pretoria] I am now in Pretoria where I will be participating in the biennial conference of the Historical Association of South Africa (HASA) on 6-7 July. Tomorrow (Friday, 6 July) I will be presenting a paper at 11:30 titled “Combating Hardships: Bus Boycotts in South Africa, 1953-1954, and international implications.” […]
I’m back in South Africa. Most years when I come back I start off and sometimes finish in Melville, in Johannesburg. It’s an area with which I’m intimately familiar, and it gives me a comfortable place to settle in, re-adjust, and recover from jet lag. I’ve been coming to South Africa and traveling internationally regularly […]
I don’t want to beat a dead horse here, but there continues to be breaking news regarding the closure of the US Manas base in Kyrgyzstan. Alexander Cooley at the Herald Tribune has an inside view of the US displacement from the air base and argues that the US did the prudent thing by walking […]