More than 30 years after apartheid, land ownership in South Africa remains deeply unequal. New research explains why. theconversation.com/how-white-fa... #Politics

How white farmers still dominate land ownership in South Africa in spite of land reform – new research

Research shows that market-based land reform in South Africa since 1994 has often benefited white farmers and preserved inequality instead of reducing it.

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Wrote a short piece for @africa.theconversation.com on my @worldpolitics.bsky.social article, the More Things Change theconversation.com/how-white-fa...

How white farmers still dominate land ownership in South Africa in spite of land reform – new research

Research shows that market-based land reform in South Africa since 1994 has often benefited white farmers and preserved inequality instead of reducing it.

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African politics job (Assistant Professor) at Bowdoin College, see link for more details If you want to advertise jobs, pass a message to apcguser@gmail.com lnkd.in/ej8vuKbn Assistant Professor of Government and Legal Studies - Bowdoin College - Comparative Politics of Africa

📢 JOB ANNOUNCEMENT 📢 Our department is hiring an Assistant Professor of Quantitative Political Science. We seek a scholar in AP, CP, PE, or IR who applies frontier methods of statistics and data science to substantive questions in their area of expertise. apply.interfolio.com/189477

Sign up for the next APCG colloquium! @allisong.bsky.social @pruett.bsky.social @adajkanu.bsky.social

African Politics Conference Group@africanpoliticscg.bsky.social · last mo.

The APCG Colloquium has another session featuring the work of Satoru Hiramatsu (UC Riverside) on July 16 from 1pm to 2pm (EDT). Sign up to read and discuss the paper, which uses @afrobarometer.bsky.social data and African philosophy to understand voting in Africa. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

In response to last weekend's attacks across Edinburgh: Anti-racist rally meeting in Montgomery Street Park today at 13h, walking down Leith Walk and ending in Pilrig Park for a rally at 14h.

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LOADSHEDDING IN A RUGBY MATCH!!!

YouTube video by Johann Rugby

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Melissa Terras@melissaterras.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Massive power cut here in #edinburgh. Had to light some fire (well, gas…) to make a cuppa. We don’t know we are born with all our light switches and devices, do we?

Call for proposals for papers and panels for the 2027 ISA conference in Atlanta. APCG has an opportunity to put together a few Africa-focused IR panels. The deadline is soon: Friday May 22nd! So get those panels and papers submitted to the emails in the link. www.afpol.org/blog/isa-nom...

Call for ISA APCG Panels

Call for ISA APCG Panels for ISA in 2027

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📢 New Issue! JSAS 51.5 brings together research on storytelling, power and resource politics across Southern Africa, from sport history and tax reform to farm violence, tourism and liberation struggles. Explore the issue and David Everatt's editorial here: www.tandfonline.com/toc/cjss20/5...

Journal of Southern African Studies

Volume 51, Issue 5 of Journal of Southern African Studies

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You only have 9 more days to submit your nominations for the African Politics Conference Group awards! Nominate a colleague, your student, a peer or just someone's work that you admire. Maybe even nominate yourself! Get the nominations in sooner rather than later.

African Politics Conference Group@africanpoliticscg.bsky.social · 4mo ago

The deadline for APCG awards May 1st! Remember to submit your nominations for the Best Dissertation, Graduate Student Paper, Article and Book Awards. There's also the Distinguished Africanist Award. Emails in the link below and in the quoted thread! www.afpol.org/blog/2026-ap...

My article "The More Things Change" has now come out in World Politics. I say more in the quoted thread, but I just wanted to add that this article - while dealing with some serious issues - was a really engaging and rewarding piece to work on. muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

Alex Dyzenhaus@dyzenhaus.bsky.social · last yr.

I'm finalizing revisions on a conditional accept today. In the paper I grapple with segregation and land reform in South Africa. My late advisor, Nic van de Walle, always asked of my work "where's the politics?". To some extent I assumed the politics of race was evident in land in South Africa.

The April issue is online! Authors include Alexander Baturo & @rgolar23.bsky.social; Kaitlyn Chriswell; @dyzenhaus.bsky.social; Lauren Honig, @adamsharris.bsky.social, & Ellen Lust; Yue Hou & Jieun Kim. muse.jhu.edu/issue/56725 #autocrats #crime #land #gender #law #SouthAfrica #Malawi #China #Mexico

@allisong.bsky.social is really testing my rusty french language skills with the announcement of an APCG colloquium in French!

African Politics Conference Group@africanpoliticscg.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Il y a un colloque en ligne de l'APCG en français le 7 mai! Inscrivez-vous pour lire l'article de Koffi Adaba et participer à la conversation.

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We are hiring ! Very happy to talk to anyone interested ⬇️⬇️⬇️

Lucas Knotter@lucaslitmanen.bsky.social · 5mo ago

JOB! My department at the @uniofbath.bsky.social is opening up TWO Lecturer positions in Environmental Politics (broadly defined)! I came to PoLIS at Bath a few years ago, and it has been such a great place to work. Make sure to apply! www.bath.ac.uk/jobs/Vacancy...

📢 📢 FRIENDS CURRENT & FUTURE!! 📢📢 The application for the 9th installment of Justice & Injustice is now open!!!! Briefly, deadline is May 1, application is here, further details below: 1/4 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Come be my colleague! The School of IR is looking for a Lecturer focusing on Russian politics. I've been here for (almost) three months and so far I've had a great time. www.vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

The call for 2026 APCG Award Nominations is live! The deadline for nominations is May 1st. Nominate scholars for Best Dissertation, Best Graduate Student Paper, Distinguished Africanist, Best Article and Best Book! www.afpol.org/blog/2026-ap...

2026 APCG Award Nominations

The 2026 APCG Award nominations are now open and due May 1st! Nominate scholars for Best Dissertation, Best Graduate Student Paper, Distinguished Africanist, Best Article and Best Book.

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Awards nominations are open for African Politics! Please share widely! @jsteend.bsky.social @stephaniewanga.bsky.social @evlieb.bsky.social @africasacountry.bsky.social @jsas-journal.bsky.social @chinemeluokafor.bsky.social @thelauram16.bsky.social @woldense.bsky.social

African Politics Conference Group@africanpoliticscg.bsky.social · 5mo ago

The call for 2026 APCG Award Nominations is live! The deadline for nominations is May 1st. Nominate scholars for Best Dissertation, Best Graduate Student Paper, Distinguished Africanist, Best Article and Best Book! www.afpol.org/blog/2026-ap...

Last touches on a report for Progress in Human Geography. Any lit in EconGeo you want to see featured? Condition: work needs to exhibit a deeper understanding of market/monopoly/monopsony/infrastructural power, mono-/oligipolistic competition, Bigness and be rooted primarily in Geography. #geosky

London friends: there are still tickets for the 8.40pm showing! whatson.bfi.org.uk/flare/Online...

Black Burns Fast | BFI Flare: London LGBTQIA+ Film Festival 2026

In Sandulela Asanda’s warm-hearted directorial debut, the arrival of new girl at nerdy Luthando’s prestigious South African boarding school prompts her sexual awakening.

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Alex Dyzenhaus@dyzenhaus.bsky.social · 5mo ago

And another friend - Sandulela Asanda - won the Youth Achiever Award. Their feature length directorial debut Black Burns Fast is closing out the BFI Flare Festival in London on March 28th. It's also been at DIFF and the Berlinale. TIFF missed out! www.youtube.com/watch?v=94tr...

Some good news in a world of increasingly bad news. My friend Mnqobi Ngubane's powerfully directed and narrated dive into the Labour Tenant question in South Africa - Mathonga Elizwe - won the best short documentary at the South African Film and Television Awards. vimeo.com/1004046679/6...

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How does the "never Trump Republican" becomes a "sometimes Trump Democrat"? The answer: he was always on the far right, but just didn't like the garishness of the MAGA movement.

The Atlantic@theatlantic.com · 5mo ago

Democrats who embrace total opposition to Trump’s war in Iran risk squandering the chance to shape how it proceeds, @davidfrum.bsky.social argues.

South Africa's president has given an unusually direct interview about Trump, to the NYT. “I do think the Afrikaner policy is racist... It is that racist sort of demeanor that we want to be able to whittle down so that he can see the truth of the situation.”

South African President Talks Trump, Racism and That Oval Office ‘Ambush’

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As someone who just got a skilled worker visa, I feel like there's another motive. If you can get settled status after 5 years, you only pay one round of skilled worker visa fees + NHS surcharges. With 10-15 years for ILR, the government will make ~£6-12,000 more on each migrant.

Steven Fielding@polprofsteve2024.bsky.social · 6mo ago

The futility of these policies (if they’re meant to attract ‘hero voters’) was known prior to Gorton; the result just reinforced the point. Being nasty & electorally ineffective is quite a trick but it makes you wonder if some are doing this out of genuine belief. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

This is blatant patrimonial politics

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 6mo ago

JD Vance: "We're announcing today that we have decided to temporarily halt certain amounts of Medicaid funding that is going to the state of Minnesota in order to ensure that the state of Minnesota takes its obligations seriously to be good stewards of the American people's tax money."

We are expanding the team! If you have any questions, please get in touch!

Authoritarian Political Systems Group@apsgworkshop.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Do you want to become part of the APSG team? We are recruiting up to two new members! We welcome applications from people in all levels of the academic career, working in any place, and researching any aspect of authoritarian politics. For more information: apsg.work/join-the-team/

Professor Jaimie Bleck will join us next week for our @lsegovernment.bsky.social APEG seminar. She will present her book: Informal Clubs, Social Capital, and Civic Engagement in Mali: Looking for Democracy in the Wrong Places. Please do join us online or in person. ir.cas.lehigh.edu/faculty-staf...

This paper with @pruett.bsky.social, @sabrinamkarim.bsky.social and Dao Freeman was an interesting piece to work on. It was my first time working on a field experiment and taught me a lot about how field experiments interact with the messy world around them.

Evidence in Governance and Politics (EGAP)@egap.bsky.social · 7mo ago

This month, we're highlighting EGAP research in #Africa 🌍 To start off, read about a field experiment on a civic engagement program w/ police and party activists during Liberia’s 2017 election. From @sabrinamkarim.bsky.social w/ Lindsey Pruett, @dyzenhaus.bsky.social & Dao Freeman:

Exciting times at UoM: we are hiring up to 15 postdocs. See below www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...