Mamphela Ramphele has launched her political platform in Johannesburg. What are the implications for South Africa’s democracy? After a period of speculation, Mamphela Ramphele launched her political platform called Agang (“let’s build” in Sesotho) on February 18 and took a firm step onto the South African political arena. She invited all South Africans to “re-imagine […]
Yet another field trip in South Africa. While I sit working on my laptop in my friend’s larnie house in the middle-class area of Gordon’s Bay, I listen to the collective howl and barking from every house around me. Each house has a dog or two. At night, they keep their owners company, and alert […]
Marianne Millstein is a researcher at Nordic Africa Institute’s Urban Dynamics Cluster. Dear Mandela – A story about a South African housing struggle The South African shack-dweller movement, Abahlali baseMjondolo, is the main actor in an award-winning documentary Dear Mandela. Two Abahlali activists were present when the film was screened in Gothenburg on 14 […]
Summer 2012 – I will certainly remember it as the beginning of a new era, and as a time of happy preparation for an exciting new job as the head of the Urban Dynamics cluster at the Nordic Africa Institute. As elated as I was about these changes and the new challenges they present, my […]
Annika Teppo, Urban Anthropology 