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New Episode of #IndianOceanWorld Podcast @NewBooksNetwork: Pamila Gupta, "Portuguese Decolonization in the Indian Ocean World: History and Ethnography" @BloomsburyAc

OPINION: Public Procurement Bill needs a better enforcement strategy and should empower whistle-blowers 

As I drive to Pretoria on the M1 highway on this 9th day of September 2016, I am so excited I am anxious that I may cause an accident. I force myself to focus. Professor Angela Davies is in South Africa, soon to give the 17th annual Steve Biko Lecture at the University of South Africa (UNISA). While driving I keep having visual flashbacks of her face on the cover of Women, Race and Class – a book I read way back in 1993, eleven years after it was published. And then I see images of her in the 1980s when I first started hearing and reading about her activism.

Link to WiSERs PhD student Sinethemba Nombala Makanya on Metro fm, guest speaking on Part two of "Spiritually Gifted" can be found here.

Congradulations to Jonathan Cane, WiSER Oceanic Humanities Postdoctoral fellow. Jonathan Cane wrote the bookwhile he was based at the Wits City Institute.

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Abstract

On April 18 2020, Zimbabwe will reach the 40-year milestone. More than half of its population is younger than the country itself. Older men dominate its political system and they are not showing signs of letting up.