News
Student documentary filmmaker receives fellowship to produce film in South Africa
Meja Shoba is a recipient of one of four 2011 Fulbright-mtvU awards
Posted: 3/7/2012
South African education advocate visits UCLA to share experiences, explore partnerships
It’s important for Americans to think of Africa and South Africa as places to learn and grow, says university leader.
Posted: 2/8/2012
Israel and Apartheid: The Jewish State
A lecture by Sasha Polakow-Suransky, Senior Editor, Foreign Affairs
Posted: 10/25/2010
Do the Math, Say UCLA Researchers
A World Health Organization proposal to eliminate AIDS in South Africa is flawed, according to a UCLA team.
Posted: 9/16/2010
Visitors Bureau Hosted 520 People from 90 Nations in 2009
The International Visitors Bureau hosted 520 visitors to UCLA from 90 nations in 2009. Topics of this year's discussions included U.S financial systems, cultural preservation, higher education, minority participation in the political process, religious diversity, substance abuse and affordable housing, among many others.
Posted: 12/11/2009
The Future of the South African Dream: Thabo Mbeki, Jacob Zuma and the April 2009 Elections
A conversation with author and journalist Mark Gevisser and Los Angeles Times reporter Scott Kraft. Featuring special guest actor Blair Underwood.
Posted: 6/15/2009
10 Questions for Sarah Abrevaya Stein
Ostrich feathers for women's hats were worth nearly as much as diamonds by weight just prior to World War I, when the bubble burst. In "Plumes: Ostrich Feathers, Jews, and a Lost World of Global Commerce" (Yale University Press), a book that resonates with the current financial crisis, UCLA historian Sarah Abrevaya Stein describes a European and American vogue for African feathers from the 1880s and recounts sad tales of a global market crash that struck particularly hard at Jewish merchants.
Posted: 1/9/2009
South African Heritages and Their Owners
On a trip to Cape Town, Laura Foster, an attorney and UCLA doctoral student in women's studies, discovers that intellectual property rights are not marginal concerns for marginalized and historically oppressed communities. They're near the center of efforts to reclaim and reaffirm cultures.
Posted: 10/5/2007
Obituary: Mazisi Kunene, South African Poet Laureate, Anti-apartheid Leader, and UCLA Professor
The UCLA African Studies Center held a memorial service for Kunene on Oct. 12.
Posted: 10/18/2006
Equity, Impact at Odds in AIDS Fight: UCLA Study
Allocating scarce antiretroviral drugs to South African cities would prevent the greatest number of infections, a UCLA AIDS Institute study finds.
Posted: 9/11/2006
Diary Gives a Face to HIV/AIDS Battle
Woman records experience on radio to bring patients hope, erase stigma attached to illness.
Posted: 5/2/2006
Of Apartheid, Prison, and Parliament
Mandela prison-mate and adviser Kathrada remembers indignities suffered, stresses victories won in democratic South Africa.
Posted: 11/16/2005
Global Audience Gathers for 'Freedom Fighter'
African leader Jacob Zuma talks about apartheid, world race issues.
Posted: 9/30/2005
Acting Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Surveys the Continent
Charles Snyder brings his forty years of work in Africa to bear in a candid view of the continent's leaders, hot spots, and causes for optimism.
Posted: 12/3/2003
South African Legislators Meet with UCLA Urban Planning Specialist in Public Transportation Study
Six members of the Standing Committee on Public Transport, Roads and Works for the Republic of South Africa's key province hold discussions at UCLA February 10 during national fact-finding tour.
Posted: 2/25/2003
Reception Honors Famed Photographer Peter Magubane
Peter Magubane, probably South Africa's best known photographer, honored by reception at the African-American Museum. Will meet with UCLA students.
Posted: 1/24/2003
