South Africans, like other post-colonial societies, face the dilemma of how to replace and yet also reproduce the state. The difficulty...

South Africa’s Department for International Relations and Cooperation (DIRCO) seems to hide from Pretoria, crouching behind a hill, with...

We’ve been trialling a new way to engage people in our research – using a clothes horse, a handful of pegs and some photographs of...

10th - 13th century Nothing remains of the buildings of this iron age city which sat on the meeting of the Shashe and Limpopo Rivers and...

1891 The Ou Raadsaal, or Old Council Hall, was commissioned by the first president of the Boer Transvaal republic, Paul Kruger, and was...

1909 - 1913 Designed by Herbert Baker, one of Britain's most famous colonial architects, the Union Building became the seat of South...

1960 This police station was originally named after John Vorster, Minister of Justice and then Prime Minister, the man who created many...

2004 The Constitutional Court is the home for the body which protects South Africa’s post-apartheid constitution. It was designed by...

The European Research Council has awarded a consolidator grant to Prof Julia Gallagher for her project, Understanding Statehood through...