A space to explore, share and shape the issues facing social and behavioral scientists
The discipline of physical anthropology has a dark, often fraught past. It was misused to justify slavery and even genocide. […]
It is the role of the social sciences and the humanities, on the basis of evidence, to affirm where official policy is in the public interest, but also to point to where it is not.
Cyrill Walters investigated the current styles of leadership in South African higher education institutions and has developed a model of the primary competencies leaders need.
University of KwaZulu-Natal Professor Emeritus William Mark Freund, the economic, social, political, and development historian, died suddenly at his home […]
The decolonization debate in African universities raises critical issues about the relationship between power, knowledge and learning, argues Ahmed Essop. It also provides an opportunity to rethink the role of universities in social and economic development and in fashioning a common nation.
African governance guru Robert Rotberg is visiting South Africa and Zimbabwe, suggesting a prescription for leadership that tries to recapture some of the benefits of the fading Mandela moment.
If you haven’t yet seen the “Story of Agriculture and Climate Change: The Road We’ve Traveled” Oxfam infographic, take a […]
Join the Academy of Management on January 7-10, 2013 for their Africa Conference in Johannesburg, South Africa. The Gordon Institute […]
Patrick Bond, University of KwaZulu-Natal, published “What is Radical in Neoliberal-Nationalist South Africa?” in the September 2011 issue of the Review […]
