South Africa’s Master of the High Court administers property inheritance. Described as a ‘creature statute’, and staffed by legally trained officials, law takes centre-stage. Focusing on Johannesburg, Master’s biggest busiest branch, this article examines how is performed in bureaucratic encounters, shapes everyday relations that make legal bureaucrats middle-class professionals. Middle-class s...

J.M. Coetzee is a South African novelist, critic and an active translator of Dutch Afrikaans literature. His novels are conspicuous for their well- crafted composition, pregnant dialogues analytical brilliance. Coetzee’s earlier question the apartheid regime, while his later works offer apocalyptic vision post- Africa. major include Disgrace, Waiting Barbarians, Life Times Michael K, Boyhood, A...

The South African Constitution and its early jurisprudence have been discussed extensively among comparative constitutional law scholars and other academics. Frequently, the Constitution has been described as a model document for the domestic protection of human rights, and the South African Constitutional Court, the highest court in post-apartheid South Africa, has often been lauded by politic...

In 1965 the Apartheid government of South Africa followed through on a decision to rezone the District Six area of Cape Town as a whites-only zone. Subsequently, the region was almost completely destroyed, resulting in a huge loss of South African Heritage. All that remains today are a handful of artifacts and an archive of photographs, all of which are housed at the District Six Museum in Cape...

Just to sit in this dark place, and magic takes place on the wall. For a moment, we forgot apartheid, we forgot there was another world that wasn’t good; we sat there, and were carried away by the dream of these American movies. Actor John Kani to Peter Davis 1990, 23 On January 25, 1959, a short but rather glowing review appeared in The Golden City Post, one of South Africa’s most popular news...

More than 25 years into democracy, South Africa’s higher educational landscape remains challenged by the slow pace of transformation and residual inequality apartheid. We utilize a mixed-methods research approach to analyze, interpret, compare transformation-related disclosures among publicly funded universities, with reference their historical apartheid-era categorization. particularly explore...

This article discusses an under-researched group and provides an analytical overview of the comparative experiences of African, Indian and Coloured doctors at South African universities during the apartheid era. It probes diversity of experience in training and practice as well as gendered differentiation amongst black students before going on to discuss the careers and political activism of bl...

The following is a speech delivered at the conference on “Social Activism and SocioEconomic Rights: Deepening Democracy in South Africa, convened by the Institute for Democracy in South Africa, Cape Town, August 11-13, 2003, on the occasion of ten years since the defeat of apartheid. The speech was delivered on August 11 before some 100 South African government and ANC officials, trade unionist...