Professor Colin Bundy
Inequality in Post Apartheid South Africa: Its History and Its Characteristics
Summary
Widespread poverty and high levels of inequality persist in today’s South Africa. This lecture examines the historical roots of inequality and explores ways in which patterns of inequality have changed since the demise of apartheid in 1994.
Professor Colin Bundy
Historian Colin Bundy retired after a career as an academic and university administrator. He served as vice-chancellor of the University of the Witwatersrand, principal of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, and principal of Green Templeton College, Oxford. As a scholar he was best known for his Rise and Fall of a South African Peasantry and was co-author (with William Beinart) of Hidden Struggles in Rural South Africa. He has published widely on South African history and politics, and this lecture draws upon two of his books in the Jacana Pocket series: Short-changed? South Africa since apartheid, and Poverty in South Africa: Past and Present.