Fetching back nation's forgotten

In our haste to get away from the past and forge a new South Africa, we turned our backs far too casually on the pain and suffering caused by apartheid. Fortunately there are those like Saleem Badat, an academic and former political activist, who refuse to allow us to forget quite so easily. ...read more

Untold stories to be told at exhibition

In 2001, in Unfinished Business: South Africa, Apartheid and Truth, Dumisa Ntsebeza and Terry Bell complained that ‘like so much of South Africa’s recent brutal history, we shall probably never know exactly how many people were banished and what happened to all of them’

There are many untold stories about South Africa, but an exhibition at Constitution Hill is set to reveal those untold stories. ...read more

Ordered into banishment: the forgotten people of apartheid South Africa

In 2001, Dumisa Ntsebeza and Terry Bell complained in Unfinished Business: South Africa, Apartheid and Truth, that "like so much of South Africa's recent brutal history we shall probably never know exactly how many people were banished and what happened to all of them". ...read more

VC talks to the youth on banning and banishment

In an hour-long briefing, Rhodes vice-chancellor Dr Saleem Badat yesterday revealed South Africa’s smallest university would again be punching well above its weight after raising millions for new academic and infrastructure projects.

Dr Saleem Badat, Rhodes University Vice-Chancellor, is to address the South African youth during the second session of the FrankTalk Radio Dialogue series organised jointly by the Steve Biko Foundation (SBF) and YFM radio station. ...read more

The ugly truth about banishment

“Quintessentially, banishment was government reprisals against key, principally rural, political opponents, which involved their administrative expulsion from their home areas to other, usually distant, desolate and inhospitable, areas for unlimited periods,” said Rhodes University Vice-Chancellor, Dr Saleem Badat.

In the aftermath of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, Dumisa Ntsebeza and Terry Bell complained that 'like so much of South Africa's recent brutal history, we shall probably never know exactly how many people were banished and what happened to all of them'. ...read more