Sarah Emily Duff's blog

We are delighted to announce that Jonny Steinberg will be joining WiSER’s staff in 2015. Steinberg has been appointed as Full Professor at WiSER as part of Vice Chancellor Adam Habib’s Distinguished Professorships programme.

A former Rhodes scholar, Steinberg has a doctorate in political theory from Oxford University where he currently teaches.

Christi Kruger, a PhD student at WiSER, discusses eurocentrism and government on Kyknet's Dagbreek programme.

The Mail and Guardian reports on ANC objections to Zak Yaccoob's comments on the Zuma rape trial, made recently at the 'Arts of Human Rights' workshop.

Lisa Vetten writes for the Mail and Guardian on the right wing's distortion of statistics to prove that black men are more violent than white.

A transcript of Lisa Vetten and Zak Yacoob's panel at our recent 'Arts of Human Rights' workshop.

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.