China not the only threat to democracy

In 2010, I spent a month at the Stellenbosch Institute of Advanced Studies (STIAS) as a research fellow.

That month was the best my brain has ever spent in any place. I was like a child in Willy Wonka's chocolate factory because I had the opportunity to engage with scholars and intellectuals from home and abroad, including a scholar who had written on the topic I was there to research, that is, historical memory and politics in postapartheid South Africa. Do not panic -- I am not about to go heavy on you so early in the year with a treatise on historical memory. I will reserve that for Easter.

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• Aubrey Matshiqi
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