Tag: UJ Press

A new scholarly volume, Reappraising the Life and Legacy of Jan C Smuts, offers a fresh and wide-ranging examination of one of South Africa’s most influential and controversial historical figures, Jan C. Smuts. Moreover, the book positions Smuts within both national and global historical debates.

A study of anti-Blackness and white supremacy across four continents demonstrates a critical argument. Colorblindness is neither new nor a subtype of racist ideology. Instead, it operates as a constitutive technology of racism. In this context, Colorblind Tools: Global Technologies of Racial Power frames colorblindness as central to the reproduction of racial domination.

The Overthrow of Robert Mugabe argues that the 2017 coup, which ousted long-time Zimbabwean president Robert Gabriel Mugabe, cannot be accurately or rigorously understood without examining the crucial role of gender and women’s politics in military seizures of power.

Rhoda Kadalie was born in 1953 in District Six, Cape Town, and became a pioneering feminist within the anti-apartheid movement, as well as the most prominent critic of the post-apartheid government.

There is one serious missing link at the centre of today’s capitalism. It is a disequilibrium between increased economic interconnectedness and increased isolation/exclusion. This unique challenge in the 21st century calls for a unique solution: Ubuntu.

This book was born out of an idea that the author had during the period in which he spent time with several young people who had approached him to assist them in different ways, including personal development, career advancement and growth, as well as growing their businesses and entrepreneurial acumen and skills. he took the challenge but felt that more could be achieved, hence this book.