Politics and Urban Governance Research Group

Politics and Urban Governance Research Group The Politics and Urban Governance Research Group (PUG) connects research on urban politics to people's lived experiences.

Dinner and Networking Time! 🙌🏽 #
28/09/2026

Dinner and Networking Time! 🙌🏽

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Happened this morning at our Summer School. Welcome Remarks and Program Overview by Prof. Fiona Anciano and Dr. Mmeli Du...
28/09/2026

Happened this morning at our Summer School.

Welcome Remarks and Program Overview by Prof. Fiona Anciano and Dr. Mmeli Dube.

Lecture 1: Human Rights and Democracy in a Time of Contestation: Power, Interests and the Current Global Context by Prof. Brian Raftopolous

Lecture 2: Decoloniality: Rethinking Knowledge, Power, Human Rights and Democracy in Africa and the rest of the global majority by Prof. Joel Modiri

Participants held group discussions, participated on panel sessions, drawing from and reflecting on their experiences.

The wait is finally over!Summer School has begun. 🤩
28/09/2026

The wait is finally over!

Summer School has begun. 🤩

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27/09/2026

Paul Muntasi

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27/09/2026

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26/09/2026

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25/09/2026

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Prof. Modiri is Acting Deputy Dean: Teaching and Learning and Chair of Postgraduate Studies in the Faculty of Law. He ho...
25/09/2026

Prof. Modiri is Acting Deputy Dean: Teaching and Learning and Chair of Postgraduate Studies in the Faculty of Law. He holds the degrees LLB cm laude (pret), and PhD (pret).

His PhD thesis was entitled “The Jurisprudence of Steve Biko: A Study in Race, Law and Power in the ‘Afterlife’ of Colonial Apartheid.” His research and teaching interests are located in the broad field of jurisprudence, and relate to critical race theory, Black Political thought and African Philosophy.

His current projects intersect under two umbrellas rooted in the ethics and politics of the global Black radical tradition: Azanian critical theory and constitutional abolitionism. He was recently appointed as a United Nations independent eminent expert in the area of race and racial discrimination.

Prof Brian Raftopolous will be delivering the first lecture of the summer school on Human Rights and Democracy in a Time...
24/09/2026

Prof Brian Raftopolous will be delivering the first lecture of the summer school on Human Rights and Democracy in a Time of Contestation: Power, Interests and the Current Global Context.

Formerly, he was an associate professor at the Institute of Development Studies, University of Zimbabwe, and a Mellon Research Fellow at the Centre for Humanities Research, University of the Western Cape.

He has published extensively on the history and politics of Zimbabwe and was the co-chair of the Editorial Board of the Journal for Southern African Studies from 2021 - 2024.

In the sphere of civil society, he was one of the founding members of the National Constitutional Assembly. In the late 1990s, a coalition of civil society organizations that was central in the civic struggles for constitutional reform and human rights in Zimbabwe and the first chair of the Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition.

In addition, from 2007 - 2024, he was the Director of Research and advocacy for Ukuthula Trust, a Zimbabwean NGO working on human rights issues as well as with victims of political violence.

He has also worked closely with the Zimbabwe Europe Network (ZEN) producing political updates and reports. In South Africa, he sits on the board of the Southern African Labour Office, an NGO working on democracy and human rights issues.

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