Heritage day is a South African public holiday, which seeks to celebrate the plurality of cultures that constitute our society. The day calls on all South Africans to rejoice in and embrace their origins. The value of such a day lies in the constitutional goal of creating a South African society founded on human dignity and equality.…Read more
Aubrey Matshiqi considers South African’s social consciousness and conscience as being ‘limb’. He finds that South Africans seem more concerned with trivialities and less with the ‘collapse of public health and education systems.’
South Africa’s youth face the gloomy reality that currently,…Read more
Third World Politics is a branch of political thought, which seeks to analyze the relationship between the ‘Global North’ and the ‘Global South’. The Global North consists of those ‘first world’ countries; the United States, Canada, France, parts of Europe,…Read more
The political concept that is ‘nationalism’ may be described as; a large group of people who feel that they belong together by virtue of sharing common traits, language, religion or even a race, a history or a common set of customs.…Read more
There is no doubt that the South Africa-Washington International Program is changing the lives of its members and the broader South African community. SAWIP’s curriculum is broad, challenging and thought provoking. With the large amounts of information we (the team) receive on a weekly basis,…Read more
The paragraph to follow is an extract from an essay that the team were instructed to complete individually. The essay topic is ‘community engagement in the context of higher education institutions in South Africa’. The reason I have chosen to submit this piece of writing is that I think it is crucial for thinking to shift away from ‘community service’…Read more
It is said that impermanence is in the blood of white settlers; it is the knowledge that the place they love used to belong to someone else.
Good evening ladies and gentlemen. My name is Joshua Nott and everyday I struggle with this feeling of impermanence,…Read more
Of late the SAWIP team has been discussing the issue of ‘race’ in both the American and South African societies. On Monday night the SAWIP hosted historian Sonja Wood. Ms. Wood walked us through African American history from the civil war to the civil rights movement.…Read more
My experiences in Washington DC have continuously reminded me about the innovation and technological advancement of the American people. This week the team and I visited the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum. Throughout the tour I was in awe of the great achievements of American scientists,…Read more
This is not my first trip to the United States. I visited family here a few years ago, however, I feel as though I am only truly experiencing America now. The most apparent feature of American society is the fierce patriotism.…Read more