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Christi van der Westhuizen Author & Editor

Christi van der Westhuizen has published widely in academic and popular books and the media and is the author of White Power & the Rise and Fall of the National Party (2007). Her working life started as a journalist at the anti-apartheid weekly Vrye Weekblad and she is a regular political and social commentator on radio, TV and online platforms. She currently works as an associate professor in sociology at the University of Pretoria and is a former research associate of the Institute for Reconciliation and Social Justice at the University of the Free State.