College of Graduate Studies

Comparative genocide research

Prof. Anthony Court (School of Interdisciplinary Research and Graduate Studies) (C2 NRF rated), is proceeding with his research, which includes the third year of a five year project in Poland entitled “Re-placing labour: Exploitation of forced labour in Nazi occupied East Upper Silesia, 1944-1945”

In partnership with colleagues from the University of Pretoria and and an Austrian filmmaker and historian, Professor Anthony Court, School of Interdisciplinary Research and Graduate Studies (2012 C2 NRF

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What does it mean to be African?

What does it mean to be an African living in Africa? Prof. Sabelo Ndlovu-Gatsheni wants to answer that and many other questions.

Professor Sabelo Ndlovu-Gatsheni is Head of the Archie Mafeje Research Institute (AMRI) and a 2012 C3 rated researcher. He holds a DPhil in Historical Studies from the University of

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Multi-wavelength research under a telescopic lens

Prof. Lerothodi Lapula Leeuw (College of Graduate Studies) (C2 NRF rated), conducts multi-wavelength astrophysical research on the evolution of elliptical galaxies and their progenitors, in both gravitationally lensed and un-lensed systems. Multi-wavelength research excites him because it combines information from different wavebands or telescopes, as individual telescopes are often specialised to only detect light at specific wavebands

A passionate astronomer, Professor Lerothodi Lapula Leeuw, College of Graduate Studies (C2 NRF rated), believes that the world’s largest and most sensitive radio telescope, the Square Kilometre Array (SKA)

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Simelane delivers 2013 Archie Mafeje Memorial Lecture

Thoko Didiza (Programme Director), Prof. Vizikhungo Mzamane (Project Leader and General Editor: ESAACH), and Prof. Nomthetho Simelane (Former Lecturer in Political Science: University of Swaziland) paid tribute to a great Pan-Africanist at the 2013 Archie Mafeje Annual Memorial Lecture.

The Annual Archie Mafeje Memorial Lecture Series celebrates the memory of an inspiring figure who worked tirelessly to highlight the importance of being an African through self-knowledge, self-control and

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