Professor Siphokazi Magadla's book on South African women's armed struggles celebrated
On 26 September 2024, Rhodes University hosted the prestigious Vice-Chancellor's Book Award Lecture, which honoured one of the institution's most distinguished scholars, Associate Professor Siphokazi Magadla, from the Department of Political and International Studies.
Professor Magadla honoured with academic mentorship excellence award
In a remarkable achievement, Professor Siphokazi Magadla from the Department of Political and International Studies at Rhodes University, has been awarded the inaugural Helen Milner Award. This accolade was presented by the Social Science Research Council (SSRC) on 31 January 2024 at its Next Generation Social Sciences in Africa (NextGen) and African Peacebuilding Network (APN) Writing and Dissemination Workshop in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, and marks a significant recognition of Professor Magadla's dedication and contribution to the field of peace, security, and development in Africa.
Following in the footsteps of great leaders through the Abe Bailey Travel Bursary
While most students are looking forward to winding down the academic year, Dagan Naeser is preparing to begin a new journey with the Abe Bailey Travel Bursary.
Rhodes University ‘shakes the table’ with the 2023 Postgraduate Conference
The Annual Rhodes University Postgraduate Conference enthusiastically kicked off on 8 September 2023. This two-day event, themed "Shaking the Table," brought together diverse students and academics from across all faculties at Rhodes University and beyond to exchange knowledge, engage in meaningful discourse, and present their cutting-edge research projects.
South Africa’s Energy Crisis: Teach-In lecture series 2023
The Rhodes University Political and International Studies Department successfully hosted its annual Teach-In lecture series, a significant event on the academic calendar since 2002. This year's series, "Energy is the Life-blood of Development: Perspectives on the South African Energy Crisis", took place over lunch and spanned an hour, inviting students and the wider Rhodes community to participate actively.
Celebrating Mandela through the pursuit of knowledge
Former South African president Nelson Mandela was celebrated through knowledge-sharing at the Barrat lecture theatre at Rhodes University on 18 July 2023.
Farmworkers still not benefiting from fruits of the vines
Wine was first produced in South Africa as far back as the mid-1600s by Dutch colonisers who sold it to passing ships. The industry developed further during the colonial and apartheid eras and wine became an important part of the South African economy.
Graduate challenges normative assumptions around menstrual health and human rights in Masters thesis
Supervised by Associate Professor Eduard Jordaan, Gemma-Mae Hartley recently graduated with a Master of Arts degree at the October graduation ceremonies. Her tertiary journey began with uncertainty and after changing her degree multiple times, Hartley eventually found her calling in Political and International Studies.
Africa won't rise if women don't rise, says Dr Dlamini-Zuma
On 15 September, the Rhodes University Political & International Studies Department, in conjunction with Nelson Mandela University's Centre for Women & Gender Studies, the Political Sciences Department of the University of Pretoria and the University of Cape Town's Historical and Political Studies Department, hosted a forum titled "Women & 20 Years of the African Union".
Racism in South Africa: why the ANC has failed to dismantle patterns of white privilege
One of the sources of social discontent in post-apartheid South Africa is the legacy of white racism. This toxic legacy is evident in racialised poverty and inequality.
Rhodes University seek ways to preserve African languages and promote multilingualism
Last week, Rhodes University hosted a two-day colloquium on Language Policy Framework for Public Institutions of Higher Education. Various academics from different departments and external speakers converged at the Amazwi South African museum of Literature. According
Rhodes University promotes indigenous languages through language colloquium
A vibrant and diverse group of professors, linguistic experts, students, and other members of the Rhodes University community converged on Friday at the Amazwi South African Museum of Literature.
Politics Teach-in Series: The duplicity of Euro-American Power
Rhodes University’s Department of Political and International Studies hosted its Teach-in seminars at the Barratt Lecture theatre this week.
Politics Teach-in Series: Is Russia’s Ukraine invasion justified under international law? Professor Martha Bradley weighs in
The Russia-Ukraine conflict has dominated the news and is having global ramifications. This week’s Politics Teach-In, hosted by the Department of Politics and International Relations at Rhodes University, focuses on the ins and outs of this war. The seminar series began with insights from Associate Professor Martha Bradley from the Department of Public Law at the University of Pretoria. She looked at how Vladimir Putin has justified the invasion and how this holds up against international law.
A continent in crisis: Rhodes University academics discuss how the Ukraine-Russia conflict will impact Africa
The Ukraine-Russia conflict has not only devasted many parts of Ukraine but is also having ripple effects throughout the world. The challenges it presents to Africa are particular to its vulnerabilities. At an event hosted by the Internationalisation Office, the Law Faculty, and the Africa Centre, academics from Rhodes University discussed how the war would affect the African continent.
Dr Bongani Nyoka recognised for insight into activist Archie Mafeje’s scholarly works
This year’s graduation was bursting with accolades and festivities as Rhodes University held sit-down ceremonies on campus for the first time in two years. Among the honours was the conferral of the Vice-Chancellor’s Book Award to Political and International Studies Lecturer, Dr Bongani Nyoka.
Rhodes University mourns the passing of Ambassador Lindiwe Mabuza
The Rhodes University community is saddened by the passing of Ambassador Lindiwe Mabuza, who died yesterday afternoon at the age of 83. A few months ago, the University Senate and Council voted to confer the degree of Doctor of Literature (D Litt) (honoris causa) on Ambassador Mabuza at the April 2022 graduation ceremonies.
Community Engagement student leader wins Rhodes Scholarship
Claire McCann, a Rhodes University Community Engagement student leader and joint Honours in Economics and Politics student, has been granted a Southern African Rhodes Scholarship to complete her Masters degree at the University of Oxford in England.
Rhodes University 2022 SRC elected
Botlhale Phurulla Modisaotsile has been elected as the Rhodes University Student Representative Council (SRC) President for 2022.
Winds of change blow at Rhodes University 2022 SRC
Rhodes University’s student body has entrusted 22-year-old Botlhale Phurulla Modisaotsile as the Student Representative Council (SRC) President for 2022.
Healing from the armed struggle through poetry and prose
The 10th of August marked the second day of the virtual Women and the Armed Struggle Colloquium presented by the Political and International Studies Department at Rhodes University, in partnership with the Centre for Women and Gender Studies at Nelson Mandela University and the Historical Studies Department at the University of Cape Town.
The unaccounted for, the unnameable and the unknowable
On the morning of 10 August, the multifaceted storyteller, poet, nurse, and uMkhonto we Sizwe veteran, Makhosazana Xaba, orated a moving keynote address.
Women and the contours of the armed struggle
Women's Day in South Africa marks the anniversary of the great women's march of 1956, where strong, confident, resilient and powerful women gathered at the Union buildings to protest against the carrying of passbooks.
The stories that never got told: reflecting on women and the armed struggle
In a two-day virtual colloquium, the Rhodes University Political and International Studies Department collaborated with Nelson Mandela University Centre for Women and Gender Studies and the University of Cape Town's Historical Studies Department to bring together the voices and stories of women who participated in the armed struggle in South Africa.
Reggae music inspired Rhodes University graduate to advocate for people living with disabilities through his PhD research
When Dr Desire Chiwandire first joined Rhodes University in 2009, he had a dream of one day completing his PhD at the university and in 2021 his dream was realised.
Rhodes University graduate honours late father’s legacy
With a global pandemic in our midst, universities all over the world have been forced to find new and creative ways to celebrate the students’ graduation day, robbing them of the normal ways of celebration. However, this is not the worst that the pandemic has done to students, as some are forced to celebrate graduation without parents, who were lost due to COVID-19.
South Africa has failed to champion human rights in the world. But that’s changing
The story of democratic South Africa and its approach to human rights in the rest of the world is a tale of woe. For two-and-a-half decades, its foreign policy mostly failed to defend internationally – and quite often contradicted – the human rights principles contained in its constitution.
Women continue to dominate Rhodes University SRC
In an unprecedented follow-up, Rhodes University Student Representative Council (SRC) was this year dominated by women yet again. In the 110th SRC Council election ceremony, which took place on Friday, October 09, 2020, 14 out of 16 SRC Councillors are women.
Violence directed at Durban shack dwellers a betrayal of bet36体育投注_bet36体育在线—激情赢盈中√ ethos of national solidarity
In order to confront the crisis, the language used has rightly been one of war against an enemy for which the resources of the whole country must be mobilised.
International relations from an African perspective
On Thursday, 20 February, students and academics of Rhodes University attended the Vice-Chancellor’s 2018 Teaching Award Lecture by Dr Siphokazi Magadla, titled “Tragicomic hope, nokuzinza as black matriarchal inheritance”.
Up close with the inaugural secretary-general of the AfCFTA and Old Rhodian, Wamkele Mene
Rhodes University alumnus, Wamkele Mene, was last week installed as the secretary-general of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA), a first for the continent.
2019 Nelson Mandela Visiting Lecturer delivers public lecture
Our 2019 Nelson Mandela Visiting Professor was Professor Adam Ashforth, who is Professor of Afro-American and African studies at the University of Michigan in the USA. He spent a month with our students teaching the course ‘Rhodes Curse: the Formation of the South African State’. While he was here, he also presented a public lecture entitled ‘In Defence of Witch Trials: The Quest for Justice and Security in a World with Witches’.
2019 Politics Teach-In: The Opposition in Crisis?
The Political and International Studies department invites you to our annual Teach-In that will run from 15 –18 July 2019, at 1pm each day in the Barratt 2 Lecture Theatre. Our theme this year is "The Opposition in Crisis?" The recent national elections have shown uneven growth in opposition parties, with the main opposition party declining in support while other smaller opposition parties have grown. The various speakers will help us understand what accounts for these different growth patterns and what this means for the momentum of the political party in power. Our aim is to provide a historical and contemporary understanding of opposition politics in democratic South Africa.
Rest in Peace, Professor Alexius Amtaika 02/08/1966 - 02/04/2019
Professor ‘Alex’ Amtaika was a prodigious scholar and thinker on democracy and liberty who lived his life in the pursuit of academic excellence and a commitment to social equity and civic responsibility.
Barry Gilder’s The List launched at Rhodes University
Barry Gilder’s latest book got the Rhodes University community and guests riled up during the first public dialogue for 2019 for the Department of Political & International Studies and Office of Equity & Institutional Culture series.
South African Association of Political Studies Conference
Gcotyelwa Jimlongo received the 'Best Honours Essay' and Ricky Koen received the'Best Undergraduate Essay' award at the South African Association of Political Studies (SAAPS) conference.
Rhodes University lecturer in high-level review panel
Rhodes University Political and International Studies Senior Lecturer, Dr Siphokazi Magadla, has recently been elected by President Cyril Ramaphosa to form part of a high-level review panel into the work of the State Security Agency (SSA).
Afems 2018:Rebellion to you, strength to us
Dr Siphokazi Magadla, Senior Lecturer in Political Science and International Relations at Rhodes University, knows what it means to be a strong African woman, as her recent appointment by President Cyril Ramaphosa to serve on the Presidential Independent High-Level Review Panel on Intelligence illustrates.
