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Month: June 2020

  • Advantage Play: Technologies that Changed Sporting History

    Steve Haake, Advantage Play: Technologies that Changed Sporting History (Arena Sport, 2018) PHYSICS and materials science meet sport in a book written with a strong dose of personal experience, a great deal of enthusiasm and […]

    June 28, 2020Book Reviews

     
  • Views on the world as lockdown lifts: part one, race and racism

    I UNDERSTAND that I don’t understand, but I stand (Black Lives Matter demo banner) On Saturday 13 June, early afternoon, I turned idly to Twitter to see what was going on ‘out there’ and began […]

    June 22, 2020Miscellaneous

     
  • The empire strikes back

    ‘HISTORICAL figures like Rhodes do not really matter much any more’. `Monuments [are] rather meaningless’.[1] Ten years after these words of Paul Maylam’s were published, high-profile protest at the University of Cape Town led to […]

    June 15, 2020Sharp Thoughts

     
  • Academic freedom on the edge in South Africa

    EXACTLY how far is the University of Cape Town (UCT) prepared to go in genuflecting to populist thugs in the name of racial nationalism? Further and further, it seems, from the latest assault on academic […]

    June 10, 2020Sharp Thoughts

     
  • Tales from four countries in a time of lockdown: part ten

    Sheffield AS lockdown got underway, with an understandable focus on physical wellbeing, attention also turned to emotional and psychological impact. Quite suddenly, routines were forced to change, ‘real’ social contact was only with those in […]

    June 9, 2020Miscellaneous

     
  • Maverick Africans: The Shaping of the Afrikaners

    Hermann Giliomee, Maverick Africans: The Shaping of the Afrikaners (Tafelberg, 2020) HERMANN Giliomee deploys the acute observation that nations are created not just from their own dynamics, but also by their enemies. He raises the […]

    June 7, 2020Book Reviews

     
  • A tale of four countries in a time of lockdown: part nine

    Sheffield The thing about Johnson is that he desperately wanted to become prime minister, and he desperately wanted to have been prime minister. It’s just the bit in between he struggles with (Marina Hyde). BORIS […]

    June 1, 2020Miscellaneous

     

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