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Journal articles on the topic "South Africa Biography"
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Chasi, Samia. "South Africa’s Policy Framework for Higher Education Internationalisation." Thinker 89, no. 4 (2021): 30–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.36615/thethinker.v89i4.687.
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This article critically discusses the Policy Framework for Internationalisation of Higher Education in South Africa, as adopted by the South African government in late 2020. Using a decolonial lens, it adds a critical voice to public discourse on the country’s first national policy for higher education internationalisation. The article argues that the Policy Framework needs to engage more vigorously with decolonisation as one of the most pertinent issues affecting higher education in South Africa today. It offers perspectives on what shifting the geography and biography of knowledge means in the context of the Policy Framework, thus opening up the possibility of moving South Africa from being primarily a receiver to a creator of internationalisation knowledge and practice.
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Lee, Christopher J. "Durban Moments." Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 2023, no. 53 (2023): 138–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/10757163-10904160.
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This essay reviews a series of photographs by South African photographer Omar Badsha exhibited as part of Sharjah Biennial 15 (SB15). Collectively entitled Once We Were Warriors: Women and Resistance in the South African Liberation Struggle (1981–1999), the thirty-one images selected for SB15 highlight the role of women as political activists during the 1980s and 1990s across South Africa. The essay discusses Badsha’s biography and approach to photography, in addition to appraising the images themselves.
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Wang, Quan. "Ethnic Trauma in the Traveller’s Eye: On Naipaul’s "The Masque of Africa", Including a Comparison with Bi Shumin’s "30,000 Miles of Africa"." Interlitteraria 26, no. 2 (2021): 419–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.12697/il.2021.26.2.7.
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Abstract: Insisting on the role of spectator in his travel writing, V.S. Naipaul claims he is merely the “manager of narrative”, who retells objective truths told by the people among whom he travels. Nonetheless, an examination of the ethnic trauma of post-apartheid South Africa in Naipaul’s The Masque of Africa: Glimpses of African Belief (2010) reveals that his voice dominates the narrative. Naipaul’s negative view of post-apartheid South Africa is consistent with his previous views of the “dark continent”. Contrary to other writers’ optimistic attitudes toward South Africa, Naipaul holds a negative view of the Rainbow Nation. For Naipaul, South Africa is still trapped in the mess of ethnic trauma: the ‘coloured’ population fears a lack of identity; the white people fear inverted black racism; and the black populace fear a lack of possibility. This article seeks to explore the reasons for Naipaul’s pessimistic perspective on South Africa by reading his related travelogues, African writings, interviews, authorised biography and Nobel lecture. These works reveal two main reasons for his opinion of South Africa: his Western bias against the “dark continent”, and his encounters with various local ‘elites’. A comparison with a travelogue by Bi Shumin further supports the argument that Naipaul’s view of Africa in general and South Africa in particular is selective and one-sided.
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Modisane, Litheko. "Experiments in cinematic biography: Ken Gampu’s early life in the cinema." Journal of African Cinemas 12, no. 2-3 (2020): 119–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/jac_00032_1.
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Contemporary scholarship on South African film is yet to address the participation of Black actors in film production, exhibition and publicity. The actors’ interpretive roles in the films, their memories and experiences, and the contradictions of their participation in colonial films and beyond, form part of an unexplored and hidden archive in South African film scholarship. This article focuses on Ken Gampu’s early life in the cinema by reflecting on his participation in two films: a western The Hellions and the drama Dingaka. Gampu was a well-known South African actor and also the first Black actor from that country to succeed in Hollywood. This article proposes an experimental methodology of life-writing called ‘cinematic biography’. It shows that the cinematic lives of the marginalized and colonized actors harbour critical potential in enriching the critical perspectives on the cinema and cinematic cultures in South Africa and beyond.
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DIGBY, ANNE. "EARLY BLACK DOCTORS IN SOUTH AFRICA." Journal of African History 46, no. 3 (2005): 427–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0021853705000836.
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The article adopts the approach of a group biography in discussing the careers and ambitions of early black South African doctors selecting both those trained abroad, and the first cohorts trained within South Africa who graduated at the Universities of Cape Town and the Witwatersrand from 1945–6. It focuses on the ambiguities involved, by looking at tensions between professional altruism and entrepreneurialism in pursuing a medical career, as well as that between self-interest and selflessness in attempting to balance the requirements of a medical practice against those involved in political leadership. The paper highlights the significance of the political leadership given by black doctors in the mid-twentieth century and indicates the price paid for this in loss of medical resources under the apartheid regime. Two annexes provide original data on the medical and political contributions of individuals.
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Olaussen, Maria. "Free-Lancers and Literary Biography in South Africa (review)." Research in African Literatures 34, no. 1 (2003): 188–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/ral.2003.0014.
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LODGE, TOM. "Paper Monuments: Political Biography in the New South Africa." South African Historical Journal 28, no. 1 (1993): 249–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02582479308671977.
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Golan, Daphna. "The Life Story of King Shaka and Gender Tensions in the Zulu State." History in Africa 17 (January 1990): 95–111. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3171808.
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Hundreds of poems, novels, plays, and films have been devoted to Shaka, the king of the Zulu. His life story has been created anew each generation, and his image has changed over the years. For many whites he represents barbarism; for many blacks both within and outside South Africa, he has become a symbol of power. The ways in which Shaka has been portrayed reveal trends of thought and ideological influences prevailing in each period. They record the shifts in white conceptions of blacks in South Africa, and some of the developments in black consciousness.In this study I suggest that the core of the king's biography, the very basic life story which most historians accept, is but an invention. Shaka's biography closely resembles that of other African leaders such as Sundiata and Mbegha, and of biblical heroes, such as Joseph or Moses. These similarities to stories about other heroes point to the mythic character of the narrative and raise the possibility of investigating the various Shaka stories as symbolic representations of alternative world views, rather than as records of past times.
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Jacobs, Nancy J., and Andrew Bank. "Biography in post-apartheid South Africa: A call for awkwardness." African Studies 78, no. 2 (2019): 165–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00020184.2019.1569428.
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Dladla, Ndumiso. "Post-Script to Racism and the Marginal[isation] of African Philosophy in South Africa." Phronimon 18 (February 22, 2018): 249–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.25159/2413-3086/3761.
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A short essay reflecting around some of the academic political struggles that took place in the process of writing this article. In the essay we examine the review reports accompanying the rejection of the essay and consider this against the ease with which it was published in a foreign and reputable journal. We consider that the article provided evidence for its argument through its own biography and from the end of its life as set of homeless scribbles conclude that the status quo must be challenged immediately if the future African student is to inheit a more just academy than we did.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "South Africa Biography"
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Rassool, Ciraj. "The individual, auto/biography and history in South Africa." Thesis, University of the Western Cape, 2004. http://etd.uwc.ac.za/index.php?module=etd&.
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This thesis is a contribution to the field of public history, which the author and others at the University of the Western Cape's History Department have over the last decade pioneered in defining and mapping out in South Africa. Rassool's theories about the relationship between history and biography were developed in relation to the life of the Unity Movement leader, I.B. Tabata.
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Van, Driel Nicole. "The journey to Wankie: a biography of James April." University of the Western Cape, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/11394/7072.
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Honours Degree<br>James April, [hereafter referred to as April] was a member of the
ANC's military wing Umkhonto we Sizwe [otherwise referred to as
MK. What might have seemed unusual to the court that day, and
to many onlookers, was the fact that he was a "Cape Coloured"
man espousing his allegiance to the ANC and praising it as" ...
the spirit of the African people".
April and Basil February Chis close friend and comrade] were
among the first non-African people to join MK thereby
recognising the common destiny of all black people.
In part,to tell April's [and Basil February's] story is to
explore from an individual perspective the capacity and ability
of people to overcome their socialisation, and to rise above
conformity and social restrictions.
Most of all, April's story is of an activist whose political
involvement led him to realise the inevitability and necessity of
armed struggle. Furthermore, it is the story of the commitment
of his life to this very armed struggle.
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Sarbah, David Kwao. "Biography in and of an archive: the Shelagh Gastrow Collection and South Africa." Thesis, University of the Western Cape, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/11394/4498.
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Kwao-Sarbah, David. "Biography in and of an archive : the Shelagh Gastrow Collection and South Africa." Thesis, University of Western Cape, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/11394/3515.
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Magister Artium - MA<br>This study is about the recent political history of South Africa. It examined the crucial period of late apartheid, through the political transition into democracy. The study was conducted through the lenses of Shelagh Gastrow's work, whose series of publications
titled Who’s Who in South African Politics traversed the spectrum of a severely polarised South Africa, and earned her the accolade as a "leading authority" in the biographical enterprise of Who's who. Gastrow had interviewed people in political office, those in
opposition, those hiding from political persecution and even those in exile outside South Africa. It involved about 100 personalities for each of her five volumes. The study involved examining archival collections, documentary analysis, desktop research and interviews with Shelagh Gastrow. It also examined the Mayibuye Archives, where the Gastrow collection was eventually transferred, as an archive of resistance to apartheid. The study showed that from its origin as a research project about personalities in South Africa’s resistance and transition history, the Shelagh Gastrow collection was transformed into a heritage resource. The study examined political collections as heritage
resources in the process of remaking the nation, and the contributions they make in the national re-engineering process.
The study drew on the convergence of two theoretical claims. First, Achille Mbembe, among others, has asserted that there is no state without its archives. An indispensable, symbiotic, socio-political relationship exists between the state, actors in the state, and related archives. The second, posited by the likes of Arjun Appadurai and Igor Kopytoff, is to the effect that objects have social lives, and that they are formed and transformed through interactions with their related societies. Between the objects and their societies, meanings and values are transmitted, exchanged and retained. Thus, a careful analysis of the formation and transformations (a biographical study) of such objects can reveal the obscure about the societies they relate to. Consequently, socio-political collections do reveal much about the individuals, groups, and societies they represent. In the case of South Africa, the analysis showed the corpus of Shelagh Gastrow's collection (the object in this study) which included transcripts of political interviews, manuscripts and Who's who publications, revealed the transition from apartheid into democracy as a critical historical juncture. Political collections constitute important heritage resources, which contribute to the production of national narratives. They may originate in the past, but their analysis in the present has resonance for the collective future of the nation.
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Esau, Cecyl. "Saul Januarie : Biography of a wagon-maker and blacksmith from Worcester, Western Cape, South Africa /." Thesis, Click here for online access, 2007. http://etd.uwc.ac.za/usrfiles/modules/etd/docs/etd_gen8Srv25Nme4_6179_1256885830.pdf.
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Orie, Thembeka. "Raymond Mhlaba and the genesis of the Congress Aliance : a political biography." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/21837.
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Bibliography: pages 122-128.<br>The dominant and current theory about the African National Congress in the 1940s is that the Youth League in particular, led by the young, aspirant middle-class intellectuals, radicalised the organisation: that it was a bourgeois revolution within the ANC that led to its rejuvenation. This thesis presents an alternative viewpoint. The study reveals that in Port Elizabeth, there was a distinctively communist-trade unionist oriented group which revolutionalised the ANC: It was this group which consolidated racial and class co-operation against the apartheid system in the mid-1940s and early 1950s. This thesis postulates that in Port Elizabeth it was the working-class activists such as Raymond Mhlaba, with their militant working-class ideologies that gave the ANC a new lease of life and gave the organisation its broad mass appeal. The thesis therefore examines Raymond Mhlaba as an actor in the founding of the Congress Alliance in Port Elizabeth. It looks at how Mhlaba succeeded in building a firm alliance between the trade union movement, the Communist Party and the ANC. It is through this alliance that we learn about the political transformation of the ANC 'from below', that is, from a working-class cadre of activists rather than the middle-class leadership. Mhlaba himself was involved in all three formations and thus played a key role in the alliance politics. Chapter one examines the period before 1941 in order to provide background to the central focus of the study. It looks at the history of the Eastern Cape, Mhlaba's birth place Fort Beaufort, and his early life in the context of the subject of enquiry, the national struggle in its wider context, and the political economy of the period between 1910 to 1941. Through these perspectives the study is able to examine and show the changing forms that the struggle takes at different periods of time. It gives an understanding of the influence of those historical developments on the period and of the form that the struggle took during the period under study. Chapter two looks at the period 1942 to 1946, the years of Mhlaba's early involvement in the labour and political movements. It examines how, when and why Mhlaba got involved in these movements. The study considers the relationship between the Council of Non-European Trade Unions (CNETU) trade unionists, the communists and the ANC activists. (Mhlaba belonged to all three formations.) It looks at how the ANC leadership was changed from a middle into a working class and Mhlaba's role in this transformation. Also the study examines how mass action in this period reflected racial and class co- operation; and the emergence of a distinctively working class leadership. Chapter three examines Mhlaba's leadership role in the ANC and the Communist Party. It looks at examples of mass action and a selection of important events that took place between 1947 to 1952, in order to demonstrate how the foundation of the broad Congress Alliance solidified. That unity was influenced by the changing polity, post war conditions, and new leadership which included Mhlaba, in Port Elizabeth. Chapter four examines the clandestine conditions in which Mhlaba operated, from 1953 until his imprisonment at Rivonia in 1963. It looks at: the transition from open mass organisation to underground mobilisation; the implementation of the M-Plan; the activities of the Communist Party underground. At the same time it examines the sustenance of the mass organisation through the formation of the South African Congress of Trade Unions (SACTU) and the use of strategies such as stayaways and consumer boycotts in the late 1950s and early 1960s. The chapter also looks at repression by the government, which led to Mhlaba's departure to China, and finally his arrest at Rivonia in 1963.
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Korf, Lindie. "D.F. Malan : a political biography." Thesis, Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/3991.
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Thesis (DPhil (History))--University of Stellenbosch, 2010.<br>ENGLSIH ABSTRACT: This study is a political biography of D.F. Malan (1874–1959), the first of the apartheid-era Prime
Ministers, and covers the years 1874 to 1954, when Malan retired from politics. It endeavours to
provide a warts-and-all account of D.F. Malan which challenges prevalent myths and stereotypes
surrounding his public persona and his political orientation. While the overwhelming focus is on
Malan’s political career, special attention is paid to his personal life in order to paint a multi-faceted
picture of his character. The biography is written in the form of a seamless narrative and employs a
literary style of writing. It is based on archival research which utilised Malan’s private collection, as
well as the private collections of his Nationalist contemporaries. Malan takes the centre stage at all
times, as the biography focuses on his perceptions and experiences. Malan’s views regarding
Afrikaner nationalism, which was his foremost political priority, are described, and are related to
his views of British imperialism as well as other ideologies such as communism and totalitarianism.
This study demonstrates that there is a notable link between Malan’s perceptions of race relations
and his concerns about the poor white problem. It reveals that Malan’s racial policy was, to some
extent, fluid, as were his views on South Africa’s constitutional position. Debates about South
Africa’s links to Britain and the nature of the envisioned republic preoccupied Afrikaner
nationalists throughout the first half of the twentieth century – and served as an outlet for regional
and generational tensions within the movement. Malan’s clashes with nationalists such as Tielman
Roos, J.B.M. Hertzog and J.G. Strijdom are highlighted as an indication of the internecine power
struggles within the National Party (NP). By emphasising these complexities, this study seeks to
contribute to a nuanced understanding of the South African past.<br>AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Hierdie studie is politieke biografie van D.F. Malan (1874–1959), die eerste van die apartheid-era
Eerste Ministers, en dek die jare 1874 tot 1954, toe Malan uit die politiek getree het. Dit poog om
onversuikerde beeld van Malan te skets wat heersende mites en stereotipes aangaande sy openbare
beeld en sy benadering tot die politiek uitdaag. Die fokus is hoofsaaklik op Malan se politieke
loopbaan, maar besondere aandag word aan sy private lewe geskenk om sodoende veelsydige
portret van sy karakter te skilder. Die biografie is in die vorm van naatlose narratief geskryf en
maak van literêre skryfstyl gebruik. Dit is gebaseer op argivale navorsing, waartydens daar van
D.F. Malan se privaat versameling gebruik gemaak is, sowel as die privaat versamelings van sy
tydgenote. Malan is ten alle tye die sentrale figuur en die biografie fokus op sy persepsies en
ervarings. Malan se denke oor Afrikaner nasionalisme, wat sy vernaamste prioriteit was, word
beskryf en in verband gebring met sy opinie van Britse imperialisme, sowel as ander ideologieë
soos kommunisme en totalitarisme. Die studie wys op die verband tussen Malan se denke oor rasseverhoudinge
en sy besorgdheid oor die armblanke vraagstuk. Dit dui daarop dat Malan se rassebeleid
tot sekere mate vloeibaar was. Dit was ook die geval met sy benadering tot Suid-Afrika se
konstitusionele posisie. Afrikaner nasionaliste het tydens die eerste helfte van die twintigste eeu
baie aandag geskenk aan debatte oor Suid-Afrika se verhouding tot Brittanje en die aard van die
voorgenome republiek. Dit was tot mate weerligafleier vir reeds bestaande spanning tussen die
onderskeie streke en generasies. Malan se botsings met nasionaliste soos Tielman Roos, J.B.M.
Hertzog en J.G. Strijdom word belig as aanduiding van die diepgewortelde magstryd binne die
Nasionale Party (NP). Deur op hierdie kompleksiteite klem te lê, poog die studie om bydrae te
lewer tot meer genuanseerde begrip van die Suid-Afrikaanse verlede.
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Harwood, Craig Sean. "A psychobiographical study of Sybrand Gerhardus(Brand)Pretorius." Thesis, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10948/7567.
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The South African businessman, Brand Pretorius, was born in the rural Orange Free State town of Steynsrus in 1953. Pretorius rose to prominence in the motor industry in South Africa and he retired in 2011 as Chairman of McCarthy Motor Holdings Limited the largest motor retailer in South Africa. Pretorius was selected for this psychobiographical study by means of purposive sampling, given his extraordinary business achievements. Pretorius is publicly recognised as one of South Africa’s most successful businessmen and leaders. Psychobiographical research typically takes into consideration the entire life of an individual with the aim of uncovering the story of an individual’s life through the lens of a particular theory. The aim of this study was to explore and describe the leadership development of Brand Pretorius juxtaposed against the model of authentic leadership proposed by Avolio and Luthans (2003). The life history of Brand Pretorius was studied using a qualitative single-case study design. The psychobiographical research method allowed the single-case to be studied spanning his entire career. Data was collected from both primary and secondary sources. Conceptual matrices were used to organise and integrate the findings against the model of authentic leadership. The use of multiple data sources increased the validity and reliability of the research process and findings. To ensure ethical integrity the researcher obtained informed consent from Pretorius. The findings of this research study indicate that Pretorius was able to successfully display the authentic leadership dimensions of self-awareness, internalised moral perspective, balanced processing, relational transparency and positive psychological capacities throughout the course of his career.
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Walters, John Attwood Vereker. "After Baines." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1004368.
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By researching the life and work of Thomas Baines (1820 - 1875) in relation to a broader discourse of painting and the lived experience of being a 'white' male in a post-apartheid South Africa, I explore the ways in which this figure from the past has provoked the three series of artworks I have produced for my Master of Fine Art exhibition. This study has been divided into two parts, represented by the two chapters contained herein. Chapter One includes a critical retelling of Baines' biography and a discussion of the primary ways in which I have engaged with both the life and the working practice of this artist. I also address my own personal complicity in the constructions of 'the figure of Baines' as I have framed him both visually and textually during my work for this degree. Chapter Two describes some of the practicalities of my working process as a visual artist, including how I understand the theoretical and conceptual concerns which I raise in Chapter One to be visually manifest in my work. In this chapter, I also discuss my work in relation to the work of the contemporary South African artists William Kentridge and Johannes Phokela. The artistic practice of one artist imitating another artist's work is also explored as a central conceptual thread which could be seen to weave my verbal and visual production together.
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Boshoff, Alida. "Die impak van die grensoorlog (SWA/Angola) op die lewens van soldate, aan die hand van vertellings uit die oorlog." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/51704.
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Thesis (MA)--Stellenbosch University, 2000.<br>ENGLISH ABSTRACT: It is asswned that events during the border war (SWAI Angola) had an influencelimpact on the
lives of soldiers who took part in it. Some experiences have become embedded in their
memories and are reflected in yams about such episodes and anecdotes that constitute a wealth
of oral art. From a cultural history point of view, these therefore deserve to be recorded and
conserved. The study interprets the narratives against the background of the border war and
determines the relationship between these stories and the influence of the war on the lives of
soldiers.
Examples of war hwnour are grouped into stories about personal hygiene, misunderstandings,
boyish pranks, practical jokes and other humorous incidents. As in any war, soldiers were
confronted with unpleasant experiences such as bad news from home, the death of comrades
and the enemy, adventures with wild animals and the loss of pets. Tales about soldiers'
experiences during contact with the enemy allow one to gain insight into the functioning of
the human mind. These stories are grouped into heroic deeds, narrow escapes and feelings
experienced in contact with the enemy. As far as is known, no legends had their origin in the
border war, but stories about quite a few legendary characters are told. Stories about helicopter
pilots and trackers might eventually develop into legends, because of the fearlessness and skill
of these people. Myths are stories originating in folkbelief, in which God or the gods play an
important role. However, stories from the border war about chaplains and religion are not
myths, but tales about personal experience with a religious inclination.
It is clear from the narratives that religion played an important role in the lives of soldiers and
that they had a child-like trust in a Supreme Being. Leaders, trackers and helicopter pilots were
identified as important people in soldiers' battle for survival. They also had a need of female
company and the presence of women. Pets played a significant role in allowing them to
express their emotions. Each soldier experienced confrontation with death and the enemy in
his own unique manner. In spite of hardships, many tales of a humorous nature were told. This
can be regarded as a way of dealing and coping with unpleasant experiences.<br>AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Die veronderstelling is dat gebeure gedurende die grensoorlog (SW AI Angola) In
invloed/impak op die soldate wat daaraan deelgeneem het, se lewens gehad het. Sekere
ervarings is in hulle geheue vasgele en kom in die vorm van belewenisvertellings en staaltjies
na Yore, wat In ryke skat van volkswoordkuns bied. Dit verdien daarom om vanuit In
kultuurhistoriese oogpunt opgeteken en bewaar te word. Die studie vertolk die vertellings teen
die agtergrond van die grensoorlog en bepaal die verband tussen die vertellings en die invloed
van die oorlog op die lewens van soldate.
Voorbeelde van oorlogshumor word gegroepeer in verhale wat handel oor persoonlike higiene,
misverstande, kwajongstreke, poetse en ander humoristiese insidente. Soos in enige oorlog,
is soldate gekonfronteer met onaangename wedervarings soos slegte nuus van die huis af, die
dood van makkers en die vyand, wedervarings met wilde diere en die verlies van troeteldiere.
Vertellings oor soldate se ervarings tydens kontak met die vyand verleen insig in die werking
van die menslike gees en is gegroepeer in heldedade, noue ontkomings en gevoelens wat
ervaar is in kontak met die vyand. Sover bekend bestaan daar nie legendes uit die grensoorlog
nie, maar daar is van In hele paar legendariese karakters vertel. Vanwee hulle
onverskrokkenheid en vemuf kan verhale oor helikoptervlieeniers en spoorsnyers met verloop
van tyd legendes word. Mites is verhale wat uit die volksgeloof spruit en waarin God of gode
Inbelangrike rol speel. Verhale uit die grensoorlog wat handel oor kapelane en godsdiens, is
egter nie mites nie maar belewenisvertellings met In godsdienstige strekking.
Uit die vertellings blyk dit dat godsdiens In belangrike rol in die lewens van soldate gespeel
het en dat daar In kinderlike vertroue in In Hoer Hand was. Leiersfigure, spoorsnyers en
helikoptervlieeniers is geidentifiseer as belangrike persone in soldate se oorlewingstryd. Daar
was ook In behoefte aan vroulike geselskap en teenwoordigheid. Troeteldiere het In belangrike
rol gespeel om uiting te gee aan emosies. Soldate het konfrontasie met die dood en die vyand
elkeen op sy eie unieke manier beleef. Ten spyte van ontberings, is daar heelwat verhale met
In humoristiese strekking vertel en dit kan beskou word as In manier om onaangename
ervarings te hanteer en te verwerk.
Books on the topic "South Africa Biography"
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1953-, Smith Patrick, ed. Africa confidential who's who of Southern Africa. Blackwell, 1998.
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Steirn, Adrian, and Harriet Pratten. 21 icons South Africa. Quivertree Publications, 2014.
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Toffoli, Hilary Prendini. Who's really who in South Africa. Jonathan Ball Publishers, 1989.
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Bunting, Brian. Moses Kotane, South African revolutionary: A political biography. Inkululeko Publications, 1986.
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Allen, Vivien. Lady trader: A biography of Mrs Sarah Heckford. 2nd ed. Protea Book House, 2010.
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Louw, P. Eric. "History of Anti-Free Market Policies in South Africa." In Hayek: A Collaborative Biography. Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137325099_4.
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van Schalkwyk, Samantha. "Collective Biography: A New Chapter for Exploring Agency in the South African Context." In Narrative Landscapes of Female Sexuality in Africa. Springer International Publishing, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-97825-3_3.
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Van Den Berghe, Pierre L. "Biographic Sketch and Bibliography of Leo Kuper." In The Liberal Dilemma in South Africa. Routledge, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003313434-12.
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Liccardo, Sabrina. "Theorising a Biographic Visual-Narrative and Decolonising Methodology of (Non)being (Space), (Not)becoming (Power) and (No)belonging (Knowledge)." In Psychosocial Pathways Towards Reinventing the South African University. Springer International Publishing, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-49036-2_3.
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