Richard Calland
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Richard J. T. Calland[1] (born 10 July, 1964) is a British-South African writer and political analyst. Calland is Associate Professor of Public Law at the University of Cape Town and a Fellow of the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership.[2][3] He is a co-Director of Sustainability Education[4] and has been a columnist for the Mail & Guardian since 2001.[3]
Biography
Education
Calland read Law at Durham University (Hatfield College) and was called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn in 1987.[3] Apart from his undergraduate degree he holds an LLM from the University of Cape Town and a postgraduate diploma in World Politics from the London School of Economics.[3]
Career
Calland practiced as a barrister in London until 1994, when he moved to South Africa to work as an advisor to the ANC in the Western Cape before the upcoming election.[3]
From 1995 to 2011 he headed the Political Monitoring & Information Service at IDASA.[3] In 2005 he was a visiting scholar at the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law at Cambridge University.[3] Other than democratic governance, his academic interests include sustainable development and climate finance.[2] He is the author of several books on the Politics of South Africa, among them, The Zuma Years: South Africa's Changing Face of Power, published in 2013.[5]
Views
Commenting to the Chicago Tribune in 1999, he compared the charisma and charm of Nelson Mandela to Ronald Reagan.[6] He has been critical of the proposal made by Thuli Madonsela that public servants implicated in corruption should be given the chance to apply for amnesty.[7]
References
- ^ "Results of Final Examinations June 1986". Durham University Gazette, 1985/86. 4 (Combined Series): 106. 1986. Retrieved 25 December 2020.
- ^ a b "Richard Calland". Department of Public Law, University of Cape Town. Retrieved 25 December 2020.
- ^ a b c d e f g "Professor Richard Calland, Fellow". Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership. Retrieved 25 December 2020.
- ^ "Sustainability Education". SusEd.org. Retrieved 24 November 2021.
- ^ "The Zuma Years". Penguin Random House. Retrieved 25 December 2020.
- ^ Salopek, Paul (25 July 1999). "An Appreciation of Nelson Mandela". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved 25 December 2020.
- ^ Calland, Richard (19 October 2020). "Why an amnesty for grand corruption is a bad idea". News24. Retrieved 25 December 2020.