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Malaba, M. Z. "South Africa Backdrop: An Historical Introduction for South African Literary and Cultural Studies (review)." Research in African Literatures 33, no. 1 (2002): 180–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/ral.2002.0024.
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Pirie, G. H. "South African urban history." Urban History 12 (May 1985): 18–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s096392680000746x.
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Johannesburg, in certain respects the Republic's leading urban centre, celebrates her centenary in 1986. Acquisitive citizens and indifferent officials have, however, long driven much of her past from the streets. Today carnival history is being manufactured hurriedly beyond remote tarmac parking grounds and behind ticketing turnstiles. Although its popularization is also overdue, scholarly interest in South African urban history fortunately has not attracted only whimsical attention. In the brief review which follows an attempt is made to sketch the outlines of the South African urban past, to capture the flavour of substantive research into South African urban history and to contour the intellectual climate in which this has been conducted and shaped. Emphasis is placed on research reported in scholarly outlets. Not unexpectedly there is a wide range of other publications which contain elements of urban historical interest, these ranging from newspapers and magazines to general historical texts and finely liveried, lavishly illustrated Africana. For the purposes of this presentation, the ‘modern period’ of South African urban history is closed during the 1950s.
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Kretzschmar, Louise. "Evangelical Spirituality: a South African Perspective." Religion and Theology 5, no. 2 (1998): 154–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/157430198x00039.
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AbstractThis article begins by providing definitions of spirituality and evangelicalism. It then introduces the multifaceted reality of South African evangelicalism. This is necessary because of the historical complexity of the origins of evangelicalism in South Africa and because of the variety of people, churches and missionary societies which propagated an evangelical approach. It explains the differences between evangelicals and ecumenicals and goes on to distinguish between conservative, moderate and radical evangelicalism It outlines the background to the establishment of the Evangelical Alliance of South Africa (TEASA) and argues that radical evangelicalism, because of its understanding of conversion, salvation and mission, and the actions that issue from these convictions, can make a significant contribution of the transformation of church and society in South Africa today.
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Vorster, Jakobus (Koos) M. "A Case for a Transforming Christology in South Africa." Journal of Reformed Theology 7, no. 3 (2013): 310–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15697312-12341313.
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Abstract In the South African discourse on the political relevance of Jesus Christ, a vast array of conceptions of Jesus emerged over the years of the struggle, the liberation, the quest for spirituality and the theology of reconstruction. This discourse has taken place within the framework of the two broad historical movements of a “high” and a “low” Christology. In a recent thought provoking and informative article Mouton & Smit investigated four of the dominant discourses on Jesus in contemporary South Africa.1 They surveyed the discussions of Jesus in the popular news and newspaper debates, academic circles and scholarship, the worship and spirituality of congregations and believers, and public opinion about social and political life. After reviewing a huge corpus of South African literature on concepts of Jesus they ask the question whether Jesus was lost in translation in the South Africa of recent times. This article is an attempt to take the argument further. First of all, the investigation will provide another outline of the Christologies in the recent South African discourse within the broad framework of a “high” and a “low” Christology. The concepts under consideration are the spiritual Jesus, the political Jesus and the historical Jesus. Then a case will be made for the transforming Jesus of the Kingdom of God as a corrective on the Christologies of Apartheid, the liberation struggle and the modern-day post-modern projections of the historical Jesus.
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Motlhabi, Mokgethi. "Phases of Black Theology in South Africa: A Historical Review." Religion and Theology 16, no. 3-4 (2009): 162–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/102308009x12561890523555.
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AbstractThis essay examines the development of Black Theology in South Africa. It structures this overview of the development into two related parts and according to five evolutionary phases. After a brief general introduction, the first part discusses each of the five phases in some detail and briefly describes the kinds of groups and individuals who were involved in each phase. It is argued that these phases do not represent a smooth transition from one to the other, but that at least two extended lulls were experienced during this development. So far there has been no recovery from the latest lull, which is attributed mainly to the need for a new paradigm. In the second part the relationships that Black Theology in South Africa had with other theologies, such as American Black Theology and African Theology are discussed.
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Frank, Rashri Baboolal. "Historical Milieu of Tribunals in South Africa: The Role of Church Tribunals." Ecclesiastical Law Journal 23, no. 1 (2021): 67–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0956618x20000599.
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The historical evolution of tribunals in South Africa is important in understanding the stratagem of present-day tribunals. This article attempts to take the reader on a journey from before colonisation to during and after that era. The aim is to address the historical journey of tribunals from a South African perspective, and to analyse Church tribunals regarding their functions, characteristics and daily operations through certain profound cases.
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Craffert, Pieter F. "Mapping Current South African Jesus Research: the Schweitzerstrasse, the Wredebahn and Cultural Bundubashing." Religion and Theology 10, no. 3-4 (2003): 339–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/157430103x00114.
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AbstractWright'.s well-known distinction between the Schweitzerstrasse (the third questers) and the Wredebahn (the Jesus Seminar) in historical Jesus research is supplemented by a third approach, referred to as cultural bundubashing, which describes an interpretive, interdisciplinary and cross-cultural approach to historiography. An analytical distinction is made between these three trends which, like the roads in South Africa: toll roads (the Wredebahn), alternative routes (the Schweltzerstrasse) and off-road travelling (cultural bundubashing), offer divergent driving experiences, alternative perspectives on the same scenery and often unique features and scenes. Current South African contributions to historical Jesus research are mapped according to this grid.
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Haron, Muhammad. "Arabic and Islamic Studies in South Africa." American Journal of Islam and Society 8, no. 2 (1991): 363–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.35632/ajis.v8i2.2639.
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IntroductionThe field of Arabic and Islamic studies in South Africa remains, withfew exceptions, virgin territory. This applies both to Islam within the countryitself as well as to the field of research on Arabic and Islamic topics in general.Very few scholars, Muslims or otherwise, have produced scholarly articlesor books on these and other related topics. As one who is familiar with theSouth African scene, it is my opinion that there are several reasons for thislack of interest: the official policy of apartheid, the lack of funds and subsequentjob opportunities for graduates, and the lack of qualified university personnelwho can guide students wishing to pursue such research, to name just a few.This paper is being presented in an attempt to inform the Muslim worldat large about the difficulties facing South African Muslim researchers intheir academic quest for knowledge of their past as well as their own particularlarger concerns. It opens with a brief historical statement about the beginningof Islam in South Africa and then moves on to the main portions: thedevelopment of Arabic and Islamic studies in South Africa, the institutionsand people involved, and some of the literature which has been produced.Muslim Educational Efforts in South AfricaBefore focusing on Arabic and Islamic studies research, there is a needto sketch, albeit briefly, the historical development of Muslim educationalinstitutions in South Africa. The pre-Tuan Guru (d. 1807) (Lubbe 1985) erawas characterized by the existence of a number of home-based madiiris(schools) which provided a basic knowledge of Islam to the Muslims as wellas to the slaves (Ajam 1985; Shell 1984). This system began with the arrivalof the first Muslims to the Cape area in the mid-seventeenth century (Shell1974). With the appearance of the first mosque, which was actually calledthe Awwal Mosque, in the Cape by Tuan Guru in 1795 (Davids 1980), thiseducational activity was gradually shifted from the home to the mosque, whichsoon became the central meeting place of the Muslims. The number of mosquesslowly increased after the British supplanted the Dutch as the colonial mastersand granted religious freedom to all religious groups in 1804 ...
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Freund, Bill. "Labour Studies and Labour History in South Africa: Perspectives from the Apartheid Era and After." International Review of Social History 58, no. 3 (2013): 493–519. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0020859013000217.
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AbstractThis article attempts to introduce readers to the impressive and influential historical and contemporary literature on South African labour. A literature with some earlier antecedents effectively applied classic sociological and historical themes to the specific conditions of South African political and economic development. Research on the phase of politicized and militant white worker action ties up with research into the international pre-World War I labour movement. The strength of this literature reflected the insurgent labour movement linked to political struggle against apartheid before 1990. After this review, the second half of the paper tries to consider and contextualize the challenging post-apartheid labour situation together with its political aspects. With the successful conclusion of the anti-apartheid struggle, students of the labour movement, as well as of South African society, have become more aware of the distance between establishing a liberal democracy and actually changing society itself in a direction leading towards less inequality and an improved life for those at the bottom of society, or even the broad mass of the population. As recent literature reveals, the development of post-apartheid South Africa has been a differential and problematic experience for labour.
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Christie, Renfrew, and Ken Smith. "The Changing past: Trends in South African Historical Writing." International Journal of African Historical Studies 25, no. 1 (1992): 210. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/220191.
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Magubane, Bernard, and Ken Smith. "The Changing past: Trends in South African Historical Writing." International Journal of African Historical Studies 22, no. 2 (1989): 355. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/220068.
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Okoye, James C. "Inculturation and Theology in Africa." Mission Studies 14, no. 1 (1997): 64–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/157338397x00068.
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AbstractIn this article James C. Okoye first speaks about inculturation as the mutual transformation of culture and understandings of the gospel. He then outlines some aspects of the inculturation process as it has been employed in Africa in the last four decades.. In a brief historical overview, Okoye speaks of three stages of inculturation in Africa: the stage of indigenization and adaptation, the stage of inculturation and liberation and the stage of contextualization. The rest of the article is devoted to outlining inculturation efforts in two crucial areas for African theology: salvation and christology. Salvation for Africans is more physical and ecclesial than spiritual and individualistic. A plurality of christological approaches exist in African and perhaps can be characterized as comparative, as systematic, as formed by the theology of liberation, and as arising from communal experience. Professor Okoye concludes with a brief overview of the Kairos Document from South Africa.
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Cobley, Alan, Christopher Saunders, and Nicholas Southey. "Historical Dictionary of South Africa." African Studies Review 44, no. 3 (2001): 95. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/525604.
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Jenkins, E. R. "English South African children’s literature and the environment." Literator 25, no. 3 (2004): 107–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/lit.v25i3.266.
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Historical studies of nature conservation and literary criticism of fiction concerned with the natural environment provide some pointers for the study of South African children’s literature in English. This kind of literature, in turn, has a contribution to make to studies of South African social history and literature. There are English-language stories, poems and picture books for children which reflect human interaction with nature in South Africa since early in the nineteenth century: from hunting, through domestication of the wilds, the development of scientific agriculture, and the changing roles of nature reserves, to modern ecological concern for the entire environment. Until late in the twentieth century the literature usually endorsed the assumption held by whites that they had exclusive ownership of the land and wildlife. In recent years English-language children’s writers and translators of indigenous folktales for children have begun to explore traditional beliefs about and practices in conservation.
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Elphick, Richard, and Ken Smith. "The Changing past: Trends in South African Historical Writing." Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue Canadienne des Études Africaines 25, no. 1 (1991): 158. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/485582.
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Müller, Retief. "African Indigenous Christianity of Pentecostal Type in South Africa in the Twentieth Century and Beyond." Theology Today 75, no. 3 (2018): 318–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0040573618791746.
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Movements of reform and reformation have been highly significant in the history of Christianity for various reasons. Yet is it fair or appropriate to ascribe the term reformation to churches or groups not obviously belonging to the sixteenth-century series of events and movements usually associated with that term? This article engages with this question, especially in reference to the phenomenon of twentieth-century African Indigenous Christianity (AIC), which is often associated with terms such as African Initiated Christianity, and African Pentecostalism. I focus on South Africa as my context of reference. From this perspective I will more generally make the case that if the historical construct of reformation as a concept beyond sixteenth-century Northern and Western Europe could be useful at all, it will be in the ways in which one is able, or not, to draw parallels with some of the social consequences of those original movements. I am particularly interested in the relation between reformation and democracy. Therefore, my analysis of AIC history in South Africa is informed by the works of Witte, Woodberry, and McGrath.
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McCracken, Donal P. "Irish settlement and identity in South Africa before 1910." Irish Historical Studies 28, no. 110 (1992): 134–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0021121400010683.
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Although there has been a continuous Irish presence at the Cape of Good Hope since the late eighteenth century, the chroniclers of the Irish diaspora have until the late 1980s ignored the continent of Africa. This was in part because relatively few Irish migrants ventured to Africa, but it is also the consequence of two other factors. The vast majority of Irish immigrants to Africa in the nineteenth century went to South Africa, a region which, with some exceptions, has been academically isolated for a generation. Then within South Africa there is much still to be learnt about the nature of English-speaking society in the region. While the meticulous analysis of black and Afrikaner history and society, and of related economic history, has dominated South African historiography for some two decades, professional academics have too often left the field of South African English-speaking studies to the amateur historian and the antiquarian. Thus what in Canada or Australia would be regarded as mainline historical research has in South Africa been sidelined in the name of historical relevancy. In fact an analysis of Irish settlement in southern Africa fills an important gap in the general survey of Irish emigration to the empire and reveals a pattern of Irish settlement very different from other regions of Irish migration.
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Ross, Robert. "Towards a concise history of South Africa." European Review 6, no. 3 (1998): 283–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s106279870000332x.
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This article discusses the problems inherent in writing a short historical survey of South Africa. Such surveys are periodically necessary in order to provide a perspective for monographic studies. This one is organized around the argument that South Africa, for all its internal divisions, has become a single country, and traces the processes of colonial conquest, economic integration and the ideological importance of mission Christianity through which this has come about. Furthermore, the recent changes in the South African governmental system provide a narrative conclusion that was not there in the past and which soon will be no more.
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Mangcu, Xolela. "DECOLONIZING SOUTH AFRICAN SOCIOLOGY." Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race 13, no. 1 (2016): 45–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1742058x16000072.
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AbstractOn 14 June 2014 the Council of the University of Cape Town (UCT) voted to change race-based affirmative action in student admissions. The Council was ratifying an earlier decision by the predominantly White University Senate. According to the new policy race would be considered as only one among several factors, with the greater emphasis now being economic disadvantage. This paper argues that the new emphasis on economic disadvantage is a reflection of a long-standing tendency among left-liberal White academics to downplay race and privilege economic factors in their analysis of disadvantage in South Africa. The arguments behind the decision were that (1) race is an unscientific concept that takes South Africa back to apartheid-era thinking, and (2) that race should be replaced by class or economic disadvantage. These arguments are based on the assumption that race is a recent product of eighteenth century racism, and therefore an immoral and illegitimate social concept.Drawing on the non-biologistic approaches to race adopted by W. E. B. Du Bois, Tiyo Soga, Pixley ka Seme, S. E. K. Mqhayi, and Steve Biko, this paper argues that awareness of Black perspectives on race as a historical and cultural concept should have led to an appreciation of race as an integral part of people’s identities, particularly those of the Black students on campus. Instead of engaging with these Black intellectual traditions, White academics railroaded their decisions through the governing structures. This decision played a part in the emergence of the #RhodesMustFall movement at UCT.This paper argues that South African sociology must place Black perspectives on race at the center of its curriculum. These perspectives have been expressed by Black writers since the emergence of a Black literary culture in the middle of the nineteenth century. These perspectives constitute what Henry Louis Gates, Jr. calls a shared “text of Blackness” (Gates 2014, p. 140). This would provide a practical example of the decolonization of the curriculum demanded by students throughout the university system.
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Crais, Clifton, Christopher Saunders, and Nicholas Southey. "Historical Dictionary of South Africa." International Journal of African Historical Studies 34, no. 1 (2001): 207. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3097329.
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Bekker, Ian. "The Formation of South African English." English Today 29, no. 1 (2013): 3–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0266078412000454.
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Of all the major colonial varieties of English, South African English (SAfE) is arguably the most under-studied. Its linguistic history is also one of the most complex, South Africa having been the site of a series of immigration events involving English-speakers from a vast array of regional and social backgrounds. On top of this the English spoken by native speakers of other languages also, conceivably, had a role to play in this dialect's formation. This paper provides a brief historical reconstruction of the formation of SAfE, drawing on recent work which seems to indicate that in many important respects SAfE is younger than many might suspect.
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Redding, Sean. "“Maybe Freedom Will Come from You”: Christian Prophecies and Rumors in the Development of Rural Resistance in South Africa, 1948-1961." Journal of Religion in Africa 40, no. 2 (2010): 163–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/157006610x502610.
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AbstractIn South Africa Christian teachings and texts informed African political activity in the 1950s and 1960s particularly in the rural areas, and rumors predicting both real revolts and fantastic interventions were common. While recent scholarship concerning supernatural beliefs in African political life often analyzes the impact of fears about witchcraft or faith in the ancestors, Christianity of various types was also a significant influence on people’s actions. This paper analyzes the historical background to the revolt against apartheid policies that developed in the Transkeian region of the eastern Cape of South Africa in the mid-twentieth century and pays special attention to the role of Christian influences. Christianity was consequential both in terms of how people understood their grievances and also in the kinds of predictions they made about their political future. Rumors and religion combined with material grievances to create a prophetic moment in which rebellion became a moral choice.
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Miller, Stephen M., and Jessica Miller. "Moral and legal prohibitions against pillage in the context of the 1899 Hague Convention and the South African War." War in History 26, no. 2 (2018): 185–203. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0968344517711959.
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This article explores the genesis, scope, and significance of the 1899 Hague Convention’s prohibition against pillage. It analyses how it intersected with the moral contours of pillage as revealed in the actions and attitudes of British soldiers, British commanders, and Boer civilians during the South African War. In doing so, it crosses from ideal moral theory to international law, to shared and disputed moral beliefs among participants in the South African War. Drawing from pillage in the South African War, it concludes that the motives, policing, and moral and political context of pillage are vital to understanding its historical significance.
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Ndlovu-Gatsheni, Sabelo J. "Africa for Africans or Africa for “Natives” Only? “New Nationalism” and Nativism in Zimbabwe and South Africa." Africa Spectrum 44, no. 1 (2009): 61–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/000203970904400105.
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This article makes historical sense of the recent signs of the metamorphosis of nationalism into nativism in Zimbabwe and South Africa. The central thesis of the article is that the resurgence of Afro-radicalism and nativism in post-settler and post-apartheid societies partly reflected deep-rooted antinomies of black liberation thought and partly current ideological conundrums linked to the limits of both the African national project and global liberal democracy. Dismissals and sententious approaches towards nativism do not help in understanding the current issues in Zimbabwe and South Africa. There is the need to revisit the issues of imaginings of the African liberation agenda together with issues of the resolution of the national question, teleology of the liberation, ownership of strategic resources, knowledge production, control of public discourse, imaginations of the nation and visions of citizenship and democracy. Making sense of nativism provides an oblique entry into an interrogation of the current status of the African national project in Zimbabwe and South Africa.
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Klausen, Susanne, Christopher Saunders, and Nicholas Southey. "Historical Dictionary of South Africa." Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue Canadienne des Études Africaines 35, no. 3 (2001): 622. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/486320.
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Kotzé, Pieter B. "Hermanus Magnetic Observatory: a historical perspective of geomagnetism in southern Africa." History of Geo- and Space Sciences 9, no. 2 (2018): 125–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/hgss-9-125-2018.
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Abstract. In this paper a brief summary will be given about the historical development of geomagnetism as a science in southern Africa and particularly the role played by Hermanus Magnetic Observatory in this regard. From a very modest beginning in 1841 as a recording station at the Cape of Good Hope, Hermanus Magnetic Observatory is today part of the South African National Space Agency (SANSA), where its geomagnetic field data are extensively used in international research projects ranging from the physics of the geo-dynamo to studies of the near-Earth space environment.
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Sinthumule, Ndidzulafhi Innocent. "Resistance against Conservation at the South African Section of Greater Mapungubwe (Trans)frontier." Africa Spectrum 52, no. 2 (2017): 53–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/000203971705200203.
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The need to increase the amount of land under nature conservation at the national and global levels has gained attention over the past three decades. However, there are mixed reactions among stakeholders in South Africa regarding the establishment and expansion of cross-border nature conservation projects. Whereas conservationists and other white private landowners are in support of nature conservation projects, some white farmers are resistant to releasing land for conservation. The purpose of this paper is to investigate historical and contemporary reasons for farmers' resistance to conservation and to analyse the consequences arising from that resistance for the consolidation of the core area of South Africa's contribution to the Greater Mapungubwe Transfrontier Conservation Area. The paper argues that consolidation of land to create such special areas is a social process shaped through local contestation over land, power, and belonging. The study draws on fieldwork material from the South African section of the Greater Mapungubwe Transfrontier Conservation Area.
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Saayman, Willem. "CHRISTIAN MISSION IN SOUTH AFRICA: A HISTORICAL REFLECTION." International Review of Mission 83, no. 328 (1994): 11–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1758-6631.1994.tb02335.x.
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Degterev, D. A., and V. I. Yurtaev. "Africa: «The Rainbow Period» and Unfulfilled Hopes. Interview with Apollon Davidson, Academician of RAS." Vestnik RUDN. International Relations 20, no. 1 (2020): 218–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.22363/2313-0660-2020-20-1-218-225.
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Academician Apollon B. Davidson is an outstanding Soviet and Russian expert in African history, British Studies, also known as a specialist in Russian Silver Age literature. He is an author of more than 500 scientific papers, including 11 monographs, most of which are devoted to the new and recent history of the countries of Tropical and South Africa. Graduate of Leningrad State University (1953), Professor (1973), Doctor of Historical Sciences (1971), Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences (2011). Under his leadership, at the Institute of World History of the Russian Academy of Sciences a scientific school of African history based on archival documents was created. He prepared more than 30 candidates and doctors of sciences, among famous students - A. Balezin, S. Mazov, I. Filatova, G. Derlugyan. In 2001-2002 two volumes of documents “Russia and Africa” [Davidson 1999] were published under his editorship; the book “USSR and Africa” [Davidson, Mazov, Tsypkin 2002], in 2003 - the volume of documents “Comintern and Africa” [Davidson 2003]. In 2003, a two-volume edition of the documents “South Africa and the Communist International” [Davidson, Filatova, Gorodnov, Johns 2003] was published in London in English, and in 2005-2006 - the fundamental three-volume “History of Africa in Documents” [Davidson 2005-2006]. In 1988, he participated in the South African program at Yale University. In 1991, he lectured for several months at universities in South Africa and worked in the archives of this country. In 1992-1993 he worked at the Rhodes University, in 1994-1998 organized and chaired the Center for Russian Studies at the University of Cape Town. In 1981-1991 he visited Ethiopia, Angola, Lesotho, Botswana and several times - Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe and South Africa. From 1977 to 1991 he participated in the Soviet-American Dartmouth conferences as an expert on Africa. In his interview he talks about the outcome of decolonization for southern Africa, the actual problems of the modern development of the continent, the role of China in Africa, and the Afro-Asianization of the world. Special attention is paid to the problems and prospects of the development of Soviet and Russian African studies and Russian-African relations.
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Gunda, Masiiwa Ragies. "Understanding the Role of the Exodus in the Institutionalization and Dismantling of Apartheid: Considering the Paradox of Justice and Injustice in the Exodus." Religions 12, no. 8 (2021): 605. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rel12080605.
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The Exodus played an explicit and implicit role in sustaining the policy and practice of apartheid in South Africa and in various other places that went through the pains of colonization. Interestingly, the same Exodus also played a central part in the resistance to and the subsequent dismantling of the apartheid policy and practice in South Africa. That readers on both sides of the divide found solace in the Exodus was put down to the common assumption that guided both parties. The assumption of historicity caused the Exodus to be read as if it were a photographic record of what happened and the experience of oppression and discrimination by the readers assigned the Exodus a historical status for speaking to a historical situation. The assumption of historicity was central in the destructive uses of the Exodus thereby creating a cycle of oppressed–oppressors across the African continent, as groups took turns to seek out their own advantage. An assumption of justice was proposed as an alternative guiding principle through which justice for all, in line with pivotal events of the Old Testament, can be realized in the world.
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Babalola, Abidemi Babatunde. "Ancient History of Technology in West Africa: The Indigenous Glass/Glass Bead Industry and the Society in Early Ile-Ife, Southwest Nigeria." Journal of Black Studies 48, no. 5 (2017): 501–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0021934717701915.
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The technology of glassmaking is complex. This complexity has been cited for the exclusion of the development of ancient glass technology from certain regions of the world, especially Africa, South of the Sahara. Thus, much of the existing scholarship on the technology of ancient glass has focused on the Middle East, Mediterranean, and Southeast and South Asia. Although the discourse on indigenous African technology has gained traction in Black studies, the study of ancient glass seems to have been left mainly in the hands of specialists in other disciplines. Drawing from archaeological and historical evidence from Ile-Ife, Southwest Nigeria, in tandem with the result of compositional analysis, this article examines the first recognized indigenous Sub-Saharan African glass technology dated to early second millennium ad or earlier. The development of the local glass recipe and the making of beads not only ushered in a social, religious, and economic transformation in Yorubaland as well as the other West African societies but also redressed the place of Sub-Saharan African in the historiographical map of ancient global technology and commerce.
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Young, Hershini. "April Sizemore-Barber. Prismatic Performances: Queer South Africa and the Fragmentation of the Rainbow Nation." Modern Drama 64, no. 3 (2021): 388–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.3138/md.64.3.br7.
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A series of fascinating case studies, April Sizemore-Barber’s Prismatic Performances contributes to the growing field of South African performance studies. While in need of greater theoretical and historical contextualization, this is a well-written and engaging text, based on meticulous ethnographic research.
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Steyn, Melissa. "As the Postcolonial Moment Deepens: A Response to Green, Sonn, and Matsebula." South African Journal of Psychology 37, no. 3 (2007): 420–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/008124630703700302.
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Green, Sonn, and Matsebula's (2007) article is useful in helping to establish and develop whiteness studies in South African academia, and thus to shift the academic gaze from the margins to the centre. The article is published in the wake of three waves of international whiteness studies, which successively described whiteness as a space of taken-for-granted privilege; a series of historically different but related spaces; and, finally, as part of the global, postcolonial world order. Green, Sonn, and Matsebula's (2007) contribution could be extended by more fully capturing the dissimilarity in the texture of the experience of whiteness in Australia and South Africa. In South Africa whiteness has never had the quality of invisibility that is implied in the ‘standard’ whiteness literature, and in post-apartheid South Africa white South Africans cannot assume the same privileges, with such ease, when state power is overtly committed to breaking down racial privilege.
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DAY, JENNY A. "Marine and estuarine studies in South Africa: an historical perspective." Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa 55, no. 2 (2000): 101–5. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00359190009520436.
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BOONZAAIER-DAVIDS, MELISSA K., WAYNE K. FLORENCE, and MARK J. GIBBONS. "Novel taxa of Cheilostomata Bryozoa discovered in the historical backlogs of the Iziko South African Museum." Zootaxa 4820, no. 1 (2020): 105–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4820.1.5.
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Non-studied museum collections are hidden treasures—a source of information for various research fields. The novel taxa presented here were discovered during taxonomic examination of the backlogs of Bryozoa (Cheilostomata) from the Iziko South African Museum. We describe one new genus, Khulisa n. gen., and nine new species of bryozoans from South Africa. The new species are: Biflustra adenticulata n. sp., Aspidostoma sarcophagus n. sp., ?Micropora erecta n. sp., Trypostega richardi n. sp., Khulisa carolinae n. gen. et n. sp., Adeonella assegai n. sp., Hippomonavella lingulata n. sp., Phidolopora chakra n. sp. and Reteporella ilala n. sp. Three genera, Biflustra, Phidolopora and Triphyllozoon, are recorded for the first time from South Africa. This study highlights the importance of examining existing backlogged material lodged in museum collections.
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J. Strand, Karla, and Johannes Britz. "The evolving role of public libraries in South Africa in addressing information poverty." Library Management 39, no. 6-7 (2018): 364–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/lm-08-2017-0072.
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of the historical development of libraries in South Africa against a backdrop of poverty and social inequality. In particular, this paper illustrates how the development of libraries in South Africa both reflected and influenced information poverty and has as its goal to increase awareness of the role of libraries in the alleviation of information poverty. Design/methodology/approach The information in this paper is based on doctoral research completed by the author who investigated the role of libraries in the alleviation of information poverty in South Africa. The methodology for the research included two case studies, interviews, examination of library records, and observation. An extensive review of the professional literature and recorded histories provided imperative context for that research and this paper. Findings Findings indicate that libraries can play an important role in the alleviation of information poverty in South Africa. Libraries are underutilized in this role and in order to increase their capacity in addressing information poverty, one should consider the historical circumstances behind the dispossession of library services. Understanding the development of libraries in South Africa and sociopolitical ramifications of this development can encourage and inform greater participation of libraries in the alleviation of information poverty in the future. Originality/value This paper compiles the work and findings of previous studies on the history of South African libraries. The information provided here offers an accessible and efficient history of libraries in South Africa. In so doing, it provides context that is invaluable to the understanding of how the development of libraries throughout time can have sociopolitical effects on the people and their circumstances. The paper also encourages increased understanding of the value and purpose of libraries in combating information poverty in South Africa.
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Gallard Martínez, Alejandro J. "Argumentation and indigenous knowledge: socio-historical influences in contextualizing an argumentation model in South African schools." Cultural Studies of Science Education 6, no. 3 (2011): 719–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11422-011-9358-y.
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Ferns, Use, and Dorothea P. Thorn. "Moral Development of Black and White South African Adolescents: Evidence against Cultural Universality in Kohlberg's Theory." South African Journal of Psychology 31, no. 4 (2001): 38–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/008124630103100405.
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To investigate the cultural universality of the developmental stages of moral judgment in Kohlberg's theory, moral development of white (Afrikaans- and English-speaking) and black (Sotho-, Xhosa- and Zulu-speaking) South African adolescents was studied cross-culturally. While the white adolescents showed a moral developmental pattern in line with Kohlberg's theory, the black adolescents showed a different pattern. The influence of Western and traditional norms and values, parenting styles and the possible effect of historical factors, such as the previous apartheid government system and the current democratic system on the moral development of the white and the black adolescents in South Africa are discussed. Greater consideration should, therefore, be given to the effect of the cultural, social and historical context on moral development.
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Green, Barbara. "Great Trek and Long Walk: Readings of a Biblical Symbol." Biblical Interpretation 7, no. 3 (1999): 272–300. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/156851599x00029.
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AbstractDiverse South African readings of "the exodus" offer convenient access to the complex processes of "meaning-making" which are currently under scrutiny in many disciplines. This essay investigates several diverse appropriations of the biblical text in order to read the classic journey story-particularly the moment of encountering the Canaanites-and to sort some of the methodological issues. First, a pair of opposite versions: white South African (Boer) and black South African (represented by Archbishop Desmond Tutu); second, a triad of critical approaches, but with different emphases (historical-critical, text-centered, reader-focused); and third, my own construal of Nelson Mandela's autobiography, Long Walk to Freedom, as yet another appropriation of liberation texts. In each case, the valuable questions to ask are how the interpreter has proceded and what has been the result, both for the understanding of texts and for the methodological discussion. The allegorical approach (Boer and Tutu) seems totally inadequate. The scholarly critical readings, with their behind-, within-, and before-the-text emphases are illuminating. But Mandela's construal, or at least my version of it, offers additional and fresh insight into the dynamics of liberation.
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Oonk, Gijsbert. "South Asians in East Africa (1880-1920) with a Particular Focus on Zanzibar: Toward a Historical Explanation of Economic Success of a Middlemen Minority." African and Asian Studies 5, no. 1 (2006): 57–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/156920906775768282.
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AbstractThe main object of this article is to falsify the common historical portrait of South Asians in Zanzibar and East Africa. Most studies, a-priori, assume the outstanding business success of the Asian minority in East Africa. In explaining this success, they emphasize common explanations and theories for their economic success, like hard work, having a superior business mind, using their ethnic resources for capital accumulation and knowledge of (international) markets. In this article I attempt to explain the success of South Asians in Zanzibar, East Africa, from a historical point of view. My main argument is that South Asians started with a far more favorable socio-economic position as compared to their African counterparts. They were more than Swahilis, accustomed with a money economy and the concept of interest. In addition, they knew how to read, write and produce account books. Finally, they had access to the rulers, and were able to negotiate profitable terms of trade. Nevertheless, many were not successful at all and went bankrupt. Therefore, the success of South Asians in East Africa may be explained as the outcome of a 'trial and error' process. The successful remained in East Africa, whereas others left. India remained a safety net for those who did not make out as well as a source for new recruitment of traders, shopkeepers and clerks.
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Coombes, Annie E. "Gender, ‘Race’, Ethnicity in Art Practice in Post-Apartheid South Africa: Annie E. Coombes and Penny Siopis in Conversation." Feminist Review 55, no. 1 (1997): 110–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/fr.1997.7.
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Siopis has always engaged in a critical and controversial way with the concepts of ‘race’ and ‘ethnicity’ in South Africa. For politically sensitive artists whose work has involved confronting the injustices of apartheid, the current post-apartheid situation has forced a reassessment of their practice and the terms on which they might engage with the fundamental changes which are now affecting all of South African society. Where mythologies of race and ethnicity have been strategically foregrounded in the art of any engaged artist, to the exclusion of many other concerns, the demise of apartheid offers the possibility of exploring other dimensions of lived experience in South Africa. For feminists, this is potentially a very positive moment when questions of gender – so long subordinated to the structural issue of ‘race’ under apartheid – can now be explored. Penny Siopis’ work has long been concerned with the lived and historical relations between black and white women in South Africa. The discussion focuses on the ambivalent and dependent relationships formed between white middle-class women and black domestic labour during apartheid. Siopis’ work engages with how the appropriation of black women's time, lives, labour and bodies has shaped her ‘own’ history.
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Anthony, David Henry. "Max Yergan, Marxism and Mission during the Interwar Era." Social Sciences and Missions 22, no. 2 (2009): 257–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/187489309x12537778667273.
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AbstractFrom 1922 through 1936 Max Yergan, an African-American graduate of historically Black Shaw University in Raleigh, North Carolina represented the North American YMCA in South Africa through the auspices of the Student Christian Association. A student secretary since his sophomore year in 1911, with Indian and East African experience in World War One, Yergan's star rose sufficiently to permit him entry into the racially challenging South Africa field after a protracted campaign waged on his behalf by such interfaith luminaries as Gold Coast proto nationalist J.E.K. Aggrey and the formidable Dr. W.E.B. Du Bois. Arriving on the eve of the Great Rand Mine Strike of 1922, Yergan's South African years were punctuated by political concerns. Entering the country as an Evangelical Pan-Africanist influenced by the social gospel thrust of late nineteenth and early twentieth century American Protestantism that reached the YMCA and other faith-friendly but nondenominational organizations, Yergan became favorably disposed to Marxist and Marxist-Leninist doctrine in the course of his South African posting. Against the backdrop of the labor agitation of the post World War One era and the expansion and transformation of the South African Communist Party that occurred during the mid to late nineteen twenties, Yergan's response to what he termed "the appeal of Communism" made him an avatar of a liberation theology fusing Marxist revolution and Christianity. This paper details some of the trajectory of that momentous and profound personal evolution.
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Ben-Asher, N. "SCREENING HISTORICAL SEXUALITIES: A Roundtable on Sodomy, South Africa, and Proteus." GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies 11, no. 3 (2005): 437–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/10642684-11-3-437.
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Human, Dirk J., Andries G. Van Aarde, and Dani P. Veldsman. "HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies and Verbum et Ecclesia: South African accredited journals with footprint." Verbum et Ecclesia 38, no. 4 (2017): 243. http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/ve.v38i4.1788.
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The chapter forms part of the centennial celebration of the FT at the UP. The focus is on the two scholarly journals attached to the FT in Pretoria, namely HTS and VE. The first and longer section of the chapter is on HTS, the oldest and largest of the two journals. The second and much shorter section is on VE. The overarching aim of the chapter is to tell the story of their respective historical and formal footprints that have shaped their respective characters as scientific theological journals. Much attention is given to the contemporary functioning and positioning of the journals within the broader university and intellectual context but also in relationship to the African context.
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Antwi, Emmanuel, and Martin Adi-Dako. "THE WAY IT LOOKS: CONTEXTUALIZING EARLY PAINTINGS IN TRADITIONAL ART OF PREGOLD COAST ERA." JOURNAL OF ADVANCES IN HUMANITIES 4, no. 2 (2016): 443–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.24297/jah.v4i2.5101.
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Documentation of paintings in the history of African art in regions south of the Sahara is rare. It is rather common reading of wood sculpture and other three dimensional works as the main stay of African art. However art in West Africa is rife with paint. This paper studies six forms of painting found within pre Gold Coast traditional art by ethnographic, historical and descriptive research. These are mural, body, fabric, hearth & bed, stool and sculpture painting. Observing through the philosophical lens of Contextualism, the authors recognise it as the most appropriate way of looking at this traditional art, since its attributes seem to facilitate the best means of experiencing understanding and evaluating this art as against other philosophical proffers.
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Rossouw, Ronel, and Bertus van Rooy. "Diachronic changes in modality in South African English." English World-Wide 33, no. 1 (2012): 1–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/eww.33.1.01ros.
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In this paper we aim to contribute to both the synchronic and diachronic description of the grammar of South African English (SAfE) in its written register. In the handful of previous studies on the variety’s grammar (e.g. Bowerman 2004b) the traditional method of pointing out peculiarities has restricted its research potential to a great extent, whereas we now endeavour to move in the opposite direction of full description in the hope of creating a comparative platform with other Southern Hemisphere Englishes (SHEs). A historical corpus of written SAfE is used to trace the path of modality from the 19th to the late 20th century as preserved in letters, newspapers and fictional writing. The findings are, firstly, that modals decline only in the second half of the 20th century, after remaining relatively stable throughout the 19th and first half of the 20th century, and, secondly, that semi-modals do not increase in usage to the same extent as observed for other varieties of English. These patterns are attributed to a number of forces: trade-off relations between different modals to move away from excessive politeness to more direct forms, and developments within particular registers that favoured or disfavoured the use of specific modals.
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Smith, Aaron X. "Afrocentricity as the Organizing Principle for African Renaissance. Interview with Prof. Molefi Kete Asante, Temple University (USA)." Vestnik RUDN. International Relations 20, no. 1 (2020): 210–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.22363/2313-0660-2020-20-1-210-217.
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Professor Molefi Kete Asante is Professor and Chair of the Department of Africology at Temple University. Asante’s research has focused on the re-centering of African thinking and African people in narratives of historical experiences that provide opportunities for agency. As the most published African American scholars and one of the most prolific and influential writers in the African world, Asante is the leading theorist on Afrocentricity. His numerous works, over 85 books, and hundreds of articles, attest to his singular place in the discipline of African American Studies. His major works, An Afrocentric Manifesto [Asante 2007a], The History of Africa [Asante 2007b], The Afrocentric Idea [Asante 1998], The African Pyramids of Knowledge [Asante 2015], Erasing Racism: The Survival of the American Nation [Asante 2009], As I Run Toward Africa [Asante 2011], Facing South to Africa [Asante 2014], and Revolutionary Pedagogy [Asante 2017], have become rich sources for countless scholars to probe for both theory and content. His recent award as National Communication Association (NCA) Distinguished Scholar placed him in the elite company of the best thinkers in the field of communication. In African Studies he is usually cited as the major proponent of Afrocentricity which the NCA said in its announcing of his Distinguished Scholar award was “a spectacular achievement”. Molefi Kete Asante is interviewed because of his recognized position as the major proponent of Afrocentricity and the most consistent theorist in relationship to creating Africological pathways such as institutes, research centers, departments, journals, conference and workshop programs, and academic mentoring opportunities. Asante has mentored over 100 students, some of whom are among the principal administrators in the field of Africology. Asante is professor of Africology at Temple University and has taught at the University of California, State University of New York, Howard University, Purdue University, Florida State University, as well as held special appointments at the University of South Africa, Zhejiang University in Hangzhou, and Ibadan University in Nigeria.
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Mafofo, Lynn, and Sinfree Makoni. "A local discursive dimension in a specific historical context: Students’ narratives of police experiences during South Africa’s #FeesMustFall protests." Multilingua 39, no. 4 (2020): 431–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/multi-2019-0054.
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AbstractMost studies on campus and private policing take on political, anthropological, sociological, and criminological perspectives. Although there were investigations on policing in South Africa during apartheid, scant research has focused on how students in South African higher education (SAHE) relate their experiences of campus policing. Due to recent unrest on SAHE campuses and radical changes that include the militarization of police forces, examining how students perceive the legitimacy and integrity of campus policing is vital. As such, this paper presents a discourse analysis focused on descriptions of students’ campus experiences in the aftermath of the #FeesMustFall (#FMF) protests. Combining critical discourse analysis (CDA) with systemic functional linguistics, through transitivity, it offers insight into the ideological power struggles between students and police. It shows the types of voices students reveal as an aggrieved group in the hope of identifying non-aggressive approaches to address emotionally charged events (such as protests). Adding transitivity analysis to CDA provides a solid framework for decoding radical meanings at the peak of chaotic situations in which social change in post-apartheid South Africa can be facilitated by understanding marginalized groups.
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Carton, Benedict. "Fount of Deep Culture: Legacies of theJames Stuart Archivein South African Historiography." History in Africa 30 (2003): 87–106. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0361541300003156.
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The 2001 launch of the fifth volume of theJames Stuart Archivereinforces this publication's reputation as a mother lode of primary evidence. TheArchive'sexistence is largely due to the efforts of two editors, Colin De B. Webb and John Wright, who transformed a tangle of notes into lucid text. They deciphered the interviews that Natal colonist James Stuart conducted with a range of informants, many of them elderly isiZulu-speaking men. Transcribed by Stuart between the 1890s and 1920s, these discussions often explored in vivid detail the customs, lore, and lineages of southern Africa. Although references to theArchiveabound in revisionist histories of southern Africa, few scholars have assessed how testimonies recorded by Stuart have critically influenced such pioneering research. Fewer still have incorporated the compelling views of early twentieth-century cultural change that Stuart's informants bring to a post-apartheid understanding of South Africa's past.Well before the University of Natal Press published volume 5, the evidence presented in theArchivehad already led scholars of South African history into fertile, unmarked terrain. One example of groundbreaking data can be found in the statements of volume 4's master interpreter of Zulu power, Ndukwana kaMbengwana. His observations of the past anchor recent studies that debunk myths surrounding the early-nineteenth-century expansion of Shaka's kingdom. Ever timely, the endnotes in volume 5 discuss these reappraisals of historical interpretation and methodology. Editor John Wright elaborates in his preface: “By the time we picked up work on volume 5, we were starting to take note … that oral histories should be seen less as stories containing a more or less fixed ‘core’ of facts than as fluid narratives whose content could vary widely.”
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Gingrich, Andre. "Sharī‘a Scripts: A Historical Anthropology." American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences 36, no. 4 (2019): 108–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.35632/ajiss.v36i4.661.
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While the Yemen seems to be stumbling from one disaster into the next, it is good to see how some of the best experts in Yemeni studies continue their work in ways that will be useful in the country’s future. The present volume is not only bound to become recognized soon as the magnum opus by Brinkley Messick, professor of anthropology and Middle Eastern, South Asian and African studies at Columbia University and one of the world’s leading experts in Yemeni studies today. More importantly still, Sharī‘a Scripts features all the qualities required for a true academic milestone in Yemen-related scholarship for decades to come, with potential ramifications for the historical and legal anthropology of the Middle East at large. This volume is based on half a lifetime of analytical and comparative studies that began during the author’s first fieldwork period in the central and southern highlands of northern Yemen during the 1970s. Messick meticulously examines the structures of jurisprudence (the “library” in his terms) with the methodologies and techniques of textual scholarship, while relating it to the “archive” of records concerning everyday interactions in legal life as embedded within the practical interplay of fields between orality and scriptural statements.
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