Tackling the root causes of poverty, inequality, and unemployment through coordinated reforms, could help South Africa make further progress toward its Vision 2030 in the National Development Plan, according to a recently released World Bank Group Systematic Country Diagnostic for South Africa. Reducing poverty and inequality are also at the core of the World Bank Group’s corporate mission. Many of the identified root causes are linked to South Africa’s long history of exclusion.

ORIGINS: Current Events in Historical Perspective Article
Twenty-five years ago, South Africans engaged in a peaceful revolution. As late as the 1980s commentators predicted that any transition from white minority domination and black majority rule would precipitate a bloody civil war. Instead, in 1994 South Africans replaced president F. W. de Klerk with Nelson Mandela in a free and fair election that astonished the world. This month historian Zeb Larson evaluates what has happened in South Africa in the last quarter century and describes how difficult it has been to shake the legacy of apartheid.

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Known by the hashtag #FeesMustFall, they were the largest student protests since the end of apartheid in 1994.

Students shook the South African nation to its very core this week as protests swept across campuses with the so-called born frees at the helm. "Shutting Down the Rainbow Nation'' is a ten minute documentary that captures the energy and heart of the student-led movement, which shut down higher education institutions around the country. It speaks to the policing of the black body, state violence, and the fall of the 'rainbow nation', sewn together with videos posted by the public on Twitter and Facebook throughout the shutdown. History was re-written this week, as it became clear that even though the revolution may not have been (adequately) televised, it was certainly tweeted.

Convicted #FeesMustFall​ activist Kanya Cekeshe says he has no regrets. Cekeshe was among the prisoners granted remission of sentence by President Cyril Ramaphosa on Reconciliation Day in 2019.

In his first interview, Cekeshe sat down with SABC Senior reporter Chriselda Lewis, eight weeks after being paroled.

The First Chimurenga War was a 2-year battle which took place from 1896 to 1897 between the British and the Zimbabweans. The war was a result of Zimbabwe’s resistance to the British colonisation and the harsh conditions they were forced to live within their own country. For us to understand what really led to this war and what Britain was actually doing in Zimbabwe, this documentary takes us way back in history. This video is part of a four-part series on Zimbabwean History. I will be adding three more videos.

He held power for almost 40 years, starting with the joy of freedom from colonialism, but descending into bloodshed and political persecution. Now Zimbabwe's long-time leader Robert Mugabe has died in a hospital in Singapore at the age of 95.

Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe resignation came as both houses of parliament sat in extraordinary session to debate the president's impeachment. The speaker suspended the session and told MPs that he'd received a letter, bringing an end to 37 years of rule. The news sparked scenes of massive jubilation around the country, with thousands of people pouring into the streets.

Sky News looks at how much has changed in Zimbabwe since Emmerson Mnangagwa came to power last year, and finds much is still the same - or worse. ZANU-PF promised "visionary and mature leadership" but, with soaring unemployment, inflation, and reports of violence against public workers, so far there is little sign of it.