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Undergraduate sociology and social anthropology modules are taken as part of a degree programmes; each programme prescribes the specific modules…
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Postgraduate studies in Sociology or Social Anthropology at Stellenbosch embed students in a community of scholars who are critical, enthusiastic and supportive of each other…
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OP-ED: What’s needed to boot GBV out of the military
By Lindy Heinecken. First published in the Mail & Guardian on 19 March 2021 (page 26). Transformation in...
SEMINAR: Frank-Talk: Rethinking Foucault’s concept of parrhesia from Johannesburg (Ahmed Veriava)
2021 Seminar SeriesAhmed VeriavaPolitical Studies, University of the Witwatersrand. Thursday 25 March 2021....
OP-ED: How organic farmer Nazeer Sonday became an accidental warrior for land reform and ecological justice
By Steven Robins. First published on the Daily Maverick on 22 February 2021. What began as a hyperlocal...
New book: Refractions of the National, the Popular and the Global in African Cities
A volume on African Cities for which our HOD Lindy Heinecken is senior editor has been published by African...
OP-ED: The real State of the Nation lies underground in broken sewerage and water pipes
By Steven Robbins. First published on the Daily Maverick on 6 February 2020. The breakdown of basic...
OP-ED: Reclaiming the city and building an urban common in Woodstock
By Steven Robins. First published on The Daily Maverick on 6 January 2021. The occupation and repurposing of...
Luckymore Matenga (MA) receives book prize for the 2020 SASA students essay competition
Congratulations to Luckymore Matenga (MA) who has received a book prize for participating in the 2020 South...
Unsettled Futures: Precarity and the paradoxes of the post-apartheid project in the countryside.
Bernard Dubbeld was recently an Iso Lomso visiting fellow at the Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study...
Scholarships and Bursaries: 2021
The Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology at Stellenbosch University is delighted to announce the...
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