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Goolam Vahed

Goolam Vahed is a Professor in the Department of History, University of KwaZulu-Natal. He completed his undergraduate research at the University of Durban-Westville, and his Masters and Doctoral degrees at Indiana University, Bloomington. His research interests include identity formation, citizenship, ethnicity, Islam, and transnationalism among Indian South Africans. He has published numerous books as well as articles in peer-reviewed journals. His most recent (co-authored) books include A History of the Present. A Biography of Indian South Africans 1994–2019 (Oxford, 2019) and Colour, Class, and Community. The Natal Indian Congress and the Struggle to Defeat Apartheid 1971-1994 (Wits 2021).

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[IMTF] The Gift of the Givers

By Goolam Vahed // February 23, 2022March 22, 2023

Three centuries of white minority rule in South Africa has left the African majority materially and psychologically impoverished. A record of mismanagement and widespread corruption have resulted in the state’s failure to meet the needs…