Blogs

David Theo Goldberg's plenary from this year's Johannesburg Workshop in Theory and Criticism.

Business Day reports on comments made by former Constitutional Court justice Zak Yacoob on the Zuma rape trial, at one of the panels held during our recent 'Arts of Human Rights' workshop. Yacoob later clarified his comments.

WiSER is very proud to announce that a South African edition of Achille Mbembe's influential and award-winning On the Postcolony will be published in 2015. Including a new preface by the author, this edition is the result of a collaboration between Wits University Press and the University of California Press.

On the Postcolony was published in French in 2000 and in English in 2001. It has been translated into Italian and was awarded the Bill Venter/Altron Award in 2005.

'13 days, five cities, 30 hours of road time, 60 scholars': Ainehi Edoro on this year's Johannesburg Workshop in Theory and Criticism for the Mail and Guardian.

Achille Mbembe on the Economic Freedom Fighters for the Mail and Guardian.

Julian Rademeyer on the South African Human Rights Commission's recent vindication of Africa Check, Nechama Brodie, and Lisa Vetten's research and writing on gender based violence.

Catherine burns writes in response to revelations that the KwaZulu-Natal government has provided female studends with contraceptive implants to prevent them from becoming pregnant while studying abroad.

Hlonipha Mokoena has been featured in Xolela Mangcu's '10 Steps to Develop Black Professors.'

The Mail & Guardian reports on our recent Public Positions event on rural land ownership and land reform.

BooksLive reports on a recent WISH seminar.