Cooperative governance minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma created a constitutional crisis by shutting the voters’ roll before the promised registration weekend. Why did she disenfranchise people? She

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A recent article in Daily Maverick carried the headline ‘the battle for the soul of the South African Institute of Race Relations’ (IRR). The casus