With Prof. Saul Debow (middle) are (left) Dr Jan-Ad Stemmet, Senior Lecturer in the Department of History, and Prof. André Wessels, Head of the Department.

Famed historian Prof. Saul Debow, from the University of Sussex, recently visited the Department of History. He gave a talk on South Africa's history of human rights. Prof. Debow, who studied at the Universities of Cape Town and Oxford, has published widely on the development of racial segregation and apartheid. His teaching and research concentrates mainly on the history of modern South Africa from the early nineteenth century to the present.