Richard J. T. Calland (born 10 July, 1964) is a British-South African writer and political analyst. Calland is Associate Professor of Public Law at the

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and a Fellow of the

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. He is a co-Director of Sustainability Education and has been a columnist for the ''

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'' since 2001.

Biography

Education

Calland read Law at Durham University (

Hatfield College , motto_English = Either the first or with the first , scarf = , named_for = Thomas Hatfield , established = , senior_tutor = , master = Ann MacLarnon (2017–) , undergraduates = 1010 (2017/18) , postgrad ...

) and was called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn in 1987. Apart from his undergraduate degree he holds an

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from the University of Cape Town and a

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in World Politics from the

London School of Economics , mottoeng = To understand the causes of things , established = , type = Public research university , endowment = £240.8 million (2021) , budget = £391.1 mill ...

Career

Calland practiced as a barrister in London until 1994, when he moved to

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to work as an advisor to the

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in the

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before the upcoming election. From 1995 to 2011 he headed the Political Monitoring & Information Service at

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. In 2005 he was a visiting scholar at the

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. Other than democratic governance, his academic interests include sustainable development and

climate finance Climate finance is "finance that aims at reducing emissions, and enhancing sinks of greenhouse gases and aims at reducing vulnerability of, and maintaining and increasing the resilience of, human and ecological systems to negative climate change ...

. He is the author of several books on the

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, among them, ''The Zuma Years: South Africa's Changing Face of Power'', published in 2013.

Views

Commenting to the ''

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'' in 1999, he compared the charisma and charm of

Nelson Mandela Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela (; ; 18 July 1918 – 5 December 2013) was a South African anti-apartheid activist who served as the first president of South Africa from 1994 to 1999. He was the country's first black head of state and the ...

to Ronald Reagan. He has been critical of the proposal made by

Thuli Madonsela Thulisile Nomkhosi "Thuli" Madonsela (born 28 September 1962) is a South African advocate and professor of law, holding a chair in social justice at Stellenbosch University since January 2018. She served as the Public Protector of South Africa ...

that public servants implicated in corruption should be given the chance to apply for amnesty.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Calland, Richard 1964 births Living people British emigrants to South Africa British legal scholars Alumni of Hatfield College, Durham Alumni of the London School of Economics South African columnists South African people of British descent University of Cape Town alumni