Category – Politics
What’s in a name?
By Kate Dold
I’ve been asked to add my voice to an online petition several times in the last few days. It seems that a number of my alumni are horrified and shocked that there is talk of changing the name of Rhodes University. According to the petition that is doing the rounds, such renaming of my educational institution would “degrade my degree” and destroy the history of the university
Read More | 0 comments | August 27, 2010
“Does government instability have to mean social instability?”
By Kate Dold
Did you know that neither Belgium nor the Netherlands currently have active governments? Belgium has gone though about three Prime Ministers in just the last two years. Can you imagine this situation in smaller, newer nation states? You probably can – governmental instability is not an unusual occurrence, particularly in post-colonial/post-Soviet states… but it is usually accompanied with headlines of “regime collapse” or “governmental coups”.
Read More | 0 comments | August 18, 2010Page 1 of 1 pages
