Announcements
Wednesday, 13 May, 2026 - 13:30
Sarah Nuttall
Please join us at 13.30 on Wednesday 13 May, in the WiCDS office and online, for a conversation between Mosa Phadi (Stellenbosch) and Cole Meintjies (WiSER/African Literature), chaired by Sandra Mbewe (WiCDS). more
Monday, 18 May, 2026 - 16:00
Gregory Gondwe
This study investigates the role of encrypted messaging apps, specifically WhatsApp, in disseminating political disinformation during South Africa’s 2024 general elections. Drawing on a dataset of 22,384 messages from 47 politically more
Tuesday, 19 May, 2026 - 13:00
Sarah Nuttall
Queering the Archive: Indenture Aesthetics and South African Blackness
Jordache A. Ellapen in conversation more
Monday, 25 May, 2026 - 16:00
Nimi Hoffmann
'[D]ecolonization, the postapartheid, is first and foremost, a resumption of interrupted history. A resumption not indeed of some original purities and essences before the Fall, but of interrupted dramas, indigenous and universal dramas; more