A report on our recent seminar on consent, rights, and the regulation of childhood and adolescent sexuality in South Africa.

Victoria Hume reviews Where does it hurt? for Durham University's Centre for Medical Humanities' blog.

https://soundcloud.com/witsradioacademy/law-of-identity-theft-keith?in=witsradioacademy/sets/law-focus-law-of-identity

WiSER Research Associate Lisa Vetten writes about South Africa's rape statistics for The Conversation.

The Centre for Medical Humanities at the University of Oslo has advertised a two-year postdoctoral research fellowship. For more information, and to apply, see here.

Former WiSER MA student Simphiwe Ngwane reflects on the legacies of the 1976 Soweto Uprising for Generation Y.

John Stremlau comments on the WISER Piketty panel and the implications for taxation and the surveillance of offshore capital flows in the Business Day.

(videos are listed in the order in which the panels took place)

Wednesday, June 3, 2015

Introduction: Sarah Nuttall

Panel One: Africa in Diasporic and Continental Imagination

Xolela Mangcu, "The Idea of Africa in Black South African Political Thought"

Achille Mbembe, "Futures of Pan-Africanism"