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Affiche du document New South African Review 2

New South African Review 2

William Attwell

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Indexed in Clarivate Analytics Book Citation Index (Web of Science Core Collection)INTRODUCTION: The Zuma presidency: The politics of paralysis? John Daniel and Roger Southall CHAPTER 1: The Tripartite Alliance and its discontents: Contesting the ‘National Democratic Revolution’ in the Zuma era Devan Pillay CHAPTER 2: The African National Congress and the Zanufication debate James Hamill and John Hoffman CHAPTER 3: Dancing like a monkey: The Democratic Alliance and opposition politics in South Africa Neil Southern and Roger Southall CHAPTER 4: Democracy and accountability: Quo Vadis South Africa? Paul Hoffman CHAPTER 5: Civil society and participatory policy making in South Africa: Gaps and opportunities Imraan Buccus and Janine Hicks CHAPTER 6: Bring back Kaiser Matanzima? Communal land, traditional leaders and the politics of nostalgia Leslie Bank and Clifford Mabhena CHAPTER 7: South Africa and ‘Southern Africa’: What relationship in 2011? Chris Saunders INTRODUCTION TO PART 2: Continuing crises, contradictions and contestation Prishani Naidoo CHAPTER 8: ‘The wages are low but they are better than nothing’: The dilemma of decent work and job creation in South Africa Edward Webster CHAPTER 9: The crisis of childcare in South African public hospitals Haroon Saloojee CHAPTER 10: The worker cooperative alternative in South Africa Vishwas Satgar and Michelle Williams CHAPTER 11: Policing in the streets of South African townships Knowledge Rajohane Matshedisho CHAPTER 12: BEE Reform: The case for an institutional perspective Don Lindsay CHAPTER 13: Bokfontein amazes the nations: Community Work Programme (CWP) heals a traumatised community Malose Langa and Karl von Holdt INTRODUCTION TO PART 3: Ecological threats and the crisis of civilisation Devan Pillay CHAPTER 14: Above and beyond South Africa’s minerals-energy complex Khadija Sharife and Patrick Bond CHAPTER 15: Corrosion and externalities: The socio-economic impacts of acid mine drainage on the Witwatersrand David Fig CHAPTER 16: Food versus fuel? State, business, civil society and the bio-fuels debate in South Africa, 2003 to 2010 William Attwell INTRODUCTION TO PART 4: Media transformation and the right to know Devan Pillay CHAPTER 17: The print media transformation dilemma Jane Duncan CHAPTER 18: The South African Broadcasting Corporation: The creation and loss of a citizenship vision and the possibilities for building a new one Kate Skinner
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South Africa and India

Claire Bénit-Gbaffou

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South Africa’s future is increasingly tied up with that of India. While trade and investment between the two countries is intensifying, they share long-standing historical ties and have much in common: apart from cricket, colonialism and Gandhi, both countries are important players in the global South. As India emerges as a major economic power, the need to understand these links becomes ever more pressing. Can the two countries enter balanced forms of exchange? What forms of transnational political community between these two regions have yet to be researched and understood? The first section of South Africa and India traces the range of historical connection between the two countries. The second section explores unconventional comparisons that offer rich ground on which to build original areas of study. This innovative book looks to a post-American world in which the global South will become ever more important. Within this context, the Indian Ocean arena itself and South Africa and India in particular move to the fore. The book’s main contribution lies in the approaches and methods offered by its wide range of contributors for thinking about this set of circumstances.Introduction South Africa–India: Historical Connections, Cultural Circulations and Socio-political Comparisons Isabel Hofmeyr and Michelle Williams Chapter 1 Gandhi’s Printing Press: Indian Ocean Print Cultures and Cosmopolitanisms Isabel Hofmeyr Chapter 2 Steamship Empire: Asian, African and British Sailors in the Merchant Marine c. 1880–1945 Jonathan Hyslop Chapter 3 The Interlocking Worlds of the Anglo-Boer War in South Africa and India Pradip Kumar Datta Chapter 4 The Disquieting of History: Portuguese (De)Colonisation and Goan Migration in the Indian Ocean Pamila Gupta Chapter 5 Monty… Meets Gandhi … Meets Mandela: The Dilemma of Non-violent Resisters in South Africa, 1940–60 Goolam Vahed Chapter 6 Renaissances, African and Modern: Gandhi as a Resource? Crain Soudien Chapter 7 Democratic Deepening in India and South Africa Patrick Heller Chapter 8 Local Democracy in Indian and South African Cities: A Comparative Literature Review Claire Bénit-Gbaffou and Stéphanie Tawa Lama-Rewal Chapter 9 Reimagining Socialist Futures in South Africa and Kerala, India Michelle Williams Chapter 10 Labour, Migrancy and Urbanisation in South Africa and India, 1900–60 Phil Bonner Conclusion Cricket Ethics: Reflections on a South African-Indian Politics of Virtue Eric Worby
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Affiche du document Metal that Will not Bend

Metal that Will not Bend

Kally Forrest

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Affiche du document Becoming Worthy Ancestors

Becoming Worthy Ancestors

Xolela Mangcu

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Indexed in Clarivate Analytics Book Citation Index (Web of Science Core Collection)Preface by Xolela Mangcu Chapter One : Evidentiary genocide: intersections of race, power and the archive by Xolela Mangcu Chapter Two : The transmission lines of the New African Movement by Ntongela Masilela Chapter Three : Some do contest the assertion that I am an African by Frederick Van Zyl Slabbert Chapter Four : Africa in Europe, Egypt in Greece by Martin Bernal Chapter Five : Unconquered and insubordinate: embracing black feminist intellectual activist legacies by Pumla Dineo Gqola Chapter Six : Identity, politics and the archive by Kwame Anthony Appiah Chapter Seven : The goodness of nations by Benedict Anderson Chapter Eight : Why archive matters: archive, public deliberation and citizenship by Carolyn Hamilton
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Affiche du document Traumatic Stress in South Africa

Traumatic Stress in South Africa

Debbie Kaminer

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Affiche du document What is Slavery to Me?

What is Slavery to Me?

Pumla Dineo Gqola

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Much has been made about South Africa’s transition from histories of colonialism, slavery and apartheid. “Memory” features prominently in the country’s reckoning with its pasts. While there has been an outpouring of academic essays, anthologies and other full-length texts which study this transition, most have focused on the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC). What is slavery to me? is the first full-length study of slave memory in the South African context, and examines the relevance and effects of slave memory for contemporary negotiations of South African gendered and racialised identities. It draws from feminist, postcolonial and memory studies and is therefore interdisciplinary in approach. It reads memory as one way of processing this past, and interprets a variety of cultural, literary and filmic texts to ascertain the particular experiences in relation to slave pasts being fashioned, processed and disseminated. Much of the material surveyed across disciplines attributes to memory, or “popular history making”, a dialogue between past and present whilst ascribing sense to both the eras and their relationship. In this sense then, memory is active, entailing a personal relationship with the past which acts as mediator of reality on a day to day basis. The projects studies various negotiations of raced and gendered identities in creative and other public spaces in contemporary South Africa, by being particularly attentive to the encoding of consciousness about the country’s slave past. This book extends memory studies in South Africa, provokes new lines of inquiry, and develops new frameworks through which to think about slavery and memory in South Africa.
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Affiche du document Mbeki and After

Mbeki and After

Steven Friedman

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For nearly ten years – indeed more if we include his period of influence under Mandela’s presidency – Thabo Mbeki bestrode South Africa’s political stage. Despite attempts by some in the new ANC leadership to airbrush out his role, there can be little doubt that Mbeki was a seminal figure in South Africa’s new democracy, one who left a huge mark in many fields, perhaps most controversially in state and party management, economic policy, public health intervention, foreign affairs and race relations. If we wish to understand the character and fate of post-1994 South Africa, we must therefore ask: What kind of political system, economy and society has the former President bequeathed to the government of Jacob Zuma and to the citizens of South Africa generally? This question is addressed head-on here by a diverse range of analysts, commentators and participants in the political process. Amongst the specific questions they seek to answer: What is Mbeki’s legacy for patterns of inclusion and exclusion based on race, class and gender? How, if at all, did his presidency reshape relations within the state, between the state and the ruling party and between the state and society? How did he reposition South Africa on the continent and in the world? This book will be of interest to anyone wishing to understand the current political landscape in South Africa, and Mbeki’s role in shaping it.Chapter 1: MBEKI AND HIS LEGACY: A critical introduction DARYL GLASER Chapter 2 MBEKI’S LEGACY: Some conceptual markers PETER HUDSON Chapter 3 WHY IS THABO MBEKI A ‘NITEMARE’? MARK GEVISSER Chapter 4 MACHIAVELLI MEETS THE CONSTITUTION: Mbeki and the law RICHARD CALLAND AND CHRIS OXTOBY Chapter 5 THABO MBEKI AND DISSENT 105 JANE DUNCAN Chapter 6 CIVIL SOCIETY AND UNCIVIL GOVERNMENT: The Treatment Action Campaign versus Thabo Mbeki, 1998-2008 MARK HEYWOOD Chapter 7 SEEING OURSELVES AS OTHERS SEE US: Racism, technique and the Mbeki administration STEVEN FRIEDMAN Chapter 8 TOWARDS A COMMON NATIONAL IDENTITY: Did Thabo Mbeki help or hinder? EUSEBIUS MCKAISER Chapter 9 THABO MBEKI’S LEGACY OF TRANSFORMATIONAL DIPLOMACY CHRIS LANDSBERG Chapter 10 THABO MBEKI AND THE GREAT FOREIGN POLICY RIDDLE PETER VALE
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Affiche du document The Origins of Non-Racialism

The Origins of Non-Racialism

David Everatt

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The First Ethiopians

Malvern Wyk Smith

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The First Ethiopians explores the images of Africa and Africans that evolved in ancient Egypt, in classical Greece and imperial Rome, in the early Mediterranean world, and in the early domains of Christianity. Inspired by curiosity regarding the origins of racism in southern Africa, Malvern van Wyk Smith consulted a wide range of sources: from rock art to classical travel writing; from the pre-Dynastic African beginnings of Egyptian and Nubian civilisations to Greek and Roman perceptions of Africa; from Khoisan cultural expressions to early Christian conceptions of Africa and its people as ‘demonic’; from Aristotelian climatology to medieval cartography; and from the geo-linguistic history of Africa to the most recent revelations regarding the genome profile of the continent’s peoples. His research led to a startling proposition: Western racism has its roots in Africa itself, notably in late New Kingdom Egypt, as its ruling elites sought to distance Egyptian civilisation from its African origins. Kushite Nubians, founders of Napata and Meroë who, in the eighth century BCE, furnished the black rulers of the twenty-fifth Dynasty in Egypt, adopted and adapted such Dynastic discriminations in order to differentiate their own ‘superior’ Meroitic civilisation from the world of ‘other Ethiopians’. In due course, archaic Greeks, who began to arrive in the Nile Delta in the seventh century BCE, internalised these distinctions in terms of Homer’s identification of ‘two Ethiopias’, an eastern and a western, to create a racialised (and racist) discourse of ‘worthy’ and ‘savage Ethiopians’. Such conceptions would inspire virtually all subsequent Roman and early medieval thinking about Africa and Africans, and become foundational in European thought. The book concludes with a survey of the special place that Aksumite Ethiopia – later Abyssinia – has held in both European and African conceptual worlds as the site of ‘worthy Ethiopia’, as well as in the wider context of discourses of ethnicity and race.
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Alexandra

Phil Bonner

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Alexandra: A History is a social and political history of one of South Africa’s oldest townships. It begins with the founding of Alexandra as a freehold township in 1912 and traces its growth as a centre of black working-class life through the early years before the Nationalist government, through the struggles of the apartheid era and into the present day. Declared as a location for ‘natives and coloureds’, Alexandra became home to a diverse population where stand owners, tenants, squatters, hostel-dwellers, workers and migrants from every corner of the country converged to make a new life for themselves near the economic hub of Johannesburg. The stories of ordinary people are at the core of the township’s history. Based on numerous life-history interviews with residents and previously unexamined archive sources, the book portrays in vivid detail the daily struggles and tribulations of the people of Alexandra. A significant focus is the rich history of political resistance, in which political organisations and civic movements organised bus boycotts, anti-removal and anti-pass campaigns, and mobilised for housing and a better life for the township’s residents. But the book also tells the stories of daily life, of the making of urban cultures and of the infamous Spoilers and Msomi gangs. Over weekends Alexandra came alive as soccer matches, church services and shebeens vie for the attention of residents. Alexandra: A History highlights the social complexities of the township, which at times caused tension between different segments of the population. Above all else, despite a long history of hardship and adversity, the community spirit of the people of Alexandra, expressed in a fiercely loyal love of their township home, has repeatedly triumphed and endured.
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Affiche du document Elephant management

Elephant management

Kathleen G. Mennell

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The management of South Africa's elephants is a lightning-rod for a whole range of associated values-based policy issues pertaining to the elephant in South Africa. Elephant Management aims to pave the way to better resolution of these controversial issues. This illustrated and comprehenseive work explores a range of topics: synthesizing, evaluating and summarizing knowledge on the biology and ecology of elephants; elephant effects on trees, other herbivores, birds and ecosystem function; management techniques; and social, economic and ethical implications of various management options. It contains contributions from an expert author team comprised of many of the world’s leading specialists, including biologists, environmentalists, ethicists, economists and lawyers. Elephant Management is the first book of its kind, and topical both nationally and internationally. The research has been thoroughly peer-, stakeholder- and publicly reviewed. The anticipated readership is broad, including not only conservation policymakers and practitioners in South Africa and Africa, but also postgraduate students in many parts of the world, researchers and academics, conservation NGOs, interested stakeholders and members of the public. The book is likely to become required reading for university courses.Foreword List of figures List of tables List of boxes About the authors and contributors List of reviewers Acronyms and abbreviations Preface Summary for policymakers Chapter 1 The elephant in South Africa: history and distribution Lead author: Jane Carruthers Author: André Boshoff Contributing authors: Rob Slotow, Harry C Biggs, Graham Avery, and Wayne Matthews Chapter 2 Elephant population biology and ecology Lead author: Rudi van Aarde Authors: Sam Ferreira, Tim Jackson, and Bruce Page Contributing authors: Yolande de Beer, Katie Gough, Rob Guldemond, Jessi Junker, Pieter Olivier, Theresia Ott, and Morgan Trimble Chapter 3 Effects of elephants on ecosystems and biodiversity Lead author: Graham IH Kerley Authors: Marietjie Landman, Laurence Kruger, and Norman Owen-Smith Contributing authors: Dave Balfour, Willem F de Boer, Angela Gaylard, Keith Lindsay, and Rob Slotow Chapter 4 Interactions between elephants and people Lead author: Wayne Twine Author: Hector Magome Chapter 5 Elephant translocation Lead author: Douw G Grobler Authors: J J van Altena, Johan H Malan, and Robin L Mackey Chapter 6 Reproductive control of elephants Lead author: Henk Bertschinger Author: Audrey Delsink Contributing authors: J J van Altena, Jay Kirkpatrick, Hanno Killian, Andre Ganswindt, Rob Slotow, and Guy Castley Chapter 7 Controlling the distribution of elephants Lead author: CC (Rina) Grant Authors: Roy Bengis, Dave Balfour, and Mike Peel Contributing authors: Warwick Davies-Mostert, Hanno Killian, Rob Little, Izak Smit, Marion Garaï, Michelle Henley, Brandon Anthony, and Peter Hartley Contributors to the fencing table: Meiring Prinsloo, Ian Bester, John Adendorf, Paul Havemann, Bill Howells, Duncan MacFadyen, and Tim Parker Chapter 8 Lethal management of elephants Lead author: Rob Slotow Authors: Ian Whyte and Markus Hofmeyr Contributing authors: Graham H I Kerley, Tony Conway, and Robert J Scholes Chapter 9 Ethical considerations in elephant management Lead author: H P P (Hennie) Lötter Authors: Michelle Henley, Saliem Fakir, and Michele Pickover Contributing author: Mogobe Ramose Chapter 10 The economic value of elephants Lead author: James Blignaut Authors: Martin de Wit and Jon Barnes Chapter 11 National and international law Lead author: Lisa Hopkinson Authors: Marius van Staden and Jeremy Ridl Chapter 12 Towards integrated decision making for elephant management Lead author: Harry C Biggs Author: Rob Slotow Contributing authors: Robert J Scholes, Jane Carruthers, Rudi van Aarde, Graham H I Kerley, Wayne Twine, Douw G Grobler, Henk Berthshinger, CC (Rina) Grant, HP P (Hennie) Lötter, James Blignaut, Lisa Hopkinson, and Mike Peel Glossary Index
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Affiche du document Five Hundred Years Rediscovered

Five Hundred Years Rediscovered

Natalie Swanepoel

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The last 500 years in southern Africa represent a strikingly unexplored and misrepresented period which remains disfigured by colonial/apartheid assumptions, most notably in the way that African societies are depicted as fixed, passive, isolated, un-enterprising and unenlightened. This period is one the most formative in relation to southern Africa’s past while remaining, in many ways, the least known. Key cultural contours of the sub-continent took shape, while in a jagged and uneven fashion some of the features of modern identities emerged. Enormous internal economic innovation and political experimentation was taking place at the same time as expanding European mercantile forces started to press upon southern African shores and its hinterlands. This suggests that interaction, flux and mixing were a strong feature of the period, rather than the homogeneity and fixity proposed in standard historical and archaeological writings. Five Hundred Years Rediscovered represents the first step, taken by a group of archaeologists and historians, to collectively reframe, revitalise and re-examine the last 500 years. By integrating research and developing trans-frontier research networks, the group hopes to challenge thinking about the region’s expanding internal and colonial frontiers, and to broaden current perceptions about southern Africa’s colonial pastPreface 1 Introduction Section 1 Disciplinary Identities: Methodological Considerations 2 Historical archaeologies of southern Africa: precedents and prospects J. Behrens and N. Swanepoel 3 South Africa in Africa more than five hundred years ago: some questions N. Parsons 4 Towards an outline of the oral geography, historical identity and political economy of the Late Precolonial Tswana in the Rustenburg region S. Hall, M. Anderson, J. Boeyens and F. Coetzee 5 Metals beyond frontiers: exploring the production, distribution and use of metals in the Free State grasslands, South Africa S. Chirikure, S. Hall and T. Maggs 6 deTuin, a 19th-century mission station in the Northern Cape A.G. Morris 7 Reinterpreting the origins of Dzata: archaeology and legends E. Hanisch Section 2 Material Identities 8 Revisiting Bokoni: populating the stone ruins of the Mpumalanga Escarpment P. Delius and M.H. Schoeman 9 The Mpumalanga Escarpment settlements: some answers, many questions T. Maggs 10 Post-European contact glass beads from the southern African interior: a tentative look at trade, consumption and identities M. Wood 11 Ceramic alliances: pottery and the history of the Kekana Ndebele in the old Transvaal A.B. Esterhuysen Section 3 ‘Troubled Times’: Warfare, State Formation and Migration in the Interior 12 Rediscovering the Ndwandwe kingdom J. Wright 13 Swazi oral tradition and Northern Nguni historical archaeology P. Bonner 14 Mfecane mutation in Central Africa: a comparison of the Makololo and the Ngoni in Zambia, 1830s-1898 A. Kanduza List of contributors Index
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Affiche du document Structure, Meaning and Ritual in the Narratives of the Southern San

Structure, Meaning and Ritual in the Narratives of the Southern San

Roger Hewitt

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Structure, Meaning and Ritual in the Narratives of the Southern San analyses texts drawn from the Bleek and Lloyd Archive – arguably one of the most important collections for the understanding of South African cultural heritage and in particular the traditions of the /Xam, South Africa’s ‘first people’. Initially appearing in a now rare 1986 edition and here re-issued for the first time, the doctoral thesis on which the book is based became the catalyst for much scholarly research. The book offers an analysis of the entire corpus of /Xam narratives found in the Bleek and Lloyd collection, focusing particularly on the cycle of narratives concerning the trickster /Kaggen (Mantis). These are examined on three levels from the ‘deep structures’ with resonances in other areas of /Xam culture and supernatural belief, through the recurring patterns of narrative composition apparent across the cycle and finally touching on the observable differences in the performances by the various /Xam collaborators. Hewitt’s text remains the only comprehensive and detailed study of /Xam narrative, and it has become itself the object of study by researchers and PhD candidates in South Africa, the United Kingdom, Canada and elsewhere. This new edition at last makes Hewitt’s important work more widely available. It will be a welcome addition to the recently burgeoning literature on the place of the /Xam hunter-gatherers in the complex history of South African culture and society.
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Affiche du document Composing Apartheid

Composing Apartheid

Lara Allen

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Composing Apartheid is the first book ever to chart the musical world of a notorious period in world history, apartheid South Africa. It explores how music was produced through, and was productive of, key features of apartheid’s social and political topography, as well as how music and musicians contested and even helped to conquer apartheid. The collection of essays is intentionally broad, and the contributors include historians, sociologists and anthropologists, as well as ethnomusicologists, music theorists and historical musicologists. The essays focus on a variety of music (jazz, music in the Western art tradition, popular music) and on major composers (such as Kevin Volans) and works (Handel’s Messiah). Musical institutions and previously little-researched performers (such as the African National Congress’s troupe-in-exile, Amandla) are explored. The writers move well beyond their subject matter, intervening in debates on race, historiography, and postcolonial epistemologies and pedagogies.Introduction: Grant Olwage Chapter 1: Back to the Future? Idioms of ‘displaced time’ in South African composition Christine Lucia Chapter 2: Apartheid’s Musical Signs: Reflections on black choralism, modernity and race-ethnicity in the segregation era Grant Olwage Chapter 3: Discomposing Apartheid’s Story: Who owns Handel? Christopher Cockburn Chapter 4: Kwela’s White Audiences: The politics of pleasure and identification in the early apartheid period Lara Allen Chapter 5: Popular Music and Negotiating Whiteness in Apartheid South Africa Gary Baines Chapter 6: Packaging Desires: Album covers and the presentation of apartheid Michael Drewett Chapter 7: Musical Echoes: Composing a past in/for South African jazz Carol A. Muller Chapter 8: Singing Against Apartheid: ANC cultural groups and the international anti-apartheid struggle Shirli Gilbert Chapter 9: ‘Nkosi Sikelel’ iAfrika’: Stories of an African anthem David Coplan and Bennetta Jules-Rosette Chapter 10: Whose ‘White Man Sleeps’ Aesthetics? and politics in the early work of Kevin Volans Martin Scherzinger Chapter 11: State of Contention: Recomposing apartheid at Pretoria’s State Theatre, 1990-1994. A personal recollection Brett Pyper Chapter 12: Decomposing Apartheid: Things come together Ingrid Byerly Chapter 13: Arnold van Wyk’s Hands Stephanus Muller
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Affiche du document From Tools to Symbols

From Tools to Symbols

Francesco D’Errico

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A number of researchers have tried to characterise the anatomy and behavioural systems of early hominid and early modern human populations in an attempt to understand how we became what we are. Can archaeology, palaeo-anthropology and genetics tell us how and when human cultures developed the traits that make our societies different from those of our closest living relatives? In which cases are these differences substantial, and when do they simply reflect our definitions of culture, species, the image we have of their evolution or of ourselves? From Tools to Symbols, a collection of twenty-seven selected papers from a South African-French conference organised in honour of the well-known palaeo-anthropologist Phillip Tobias, provides a multidisciplinary overview of this field of study. It is based on collaborative research conducted in sub-Saharan Africa by South African, French, American and German scholars in the last twenty years, and represents an excellent synthesis of the palaeontological and archaeological evidence of the last five million years of human evolution.Acknowledgements Profile of Professor Tobias List of participants Foreword Justice Edwin Cameron Address Bernard Malauzat Keynote address Phillip V. Tobias Searching for common ground in palaeoanthropology, archaeology and genetics Francesco d’Errico and Lucinda R. Backwell The history of a special relationship: prehistoric terminology and lithic technology between the French and South African research traditions Nathan Schlanger Essential attributes of any technologically competent animal Charles K. Brain Significant tools and signifying monkeys: the question of body techniques and elementary actions on matter among apes and early hominids Frédéric Joulian Tools and brains: which came first? Phillip V. Tobias Environmental changes and hominid evolution: what the vegetation tells us Marion K. Bamford Implications of the presence of African ape-like teeth in the Miocene of Kenya Martin Pickford and Brigitte Senut Dawn of hominids: understanding the ape-hominid dichotomy Brigitte Senut The impact of new excavations from the Cradle of Humankind on our understanding of the evolution of hominins and their cultures Lee R. Berger Stone Age signatures in northernmost South Africa: early archaeology in the Mapungubwe National Park and vicinity Kathleen Kuman, Ryan Gibbon, Helen Kempson, Geeske Langejans,Joel Le Baron, Luca Pollarolo and Morris Sutton Vertebral column, bipedalism and freedom of the hands Dominique Gommery Characterising early Homo: cladistic, morphological and metrical analyses of the original Plio-Pleistocene specimens Sandrine Prat Early Homo, ‘robust’ australopithecines and stone tools at Kromdraai, South Africa Francis Thackeray and José Braga The origin of bone tool technology and the identification of early hominid cultural traditions Lucinda Backwell and Francesco d’Errico Contribution of genetics to the study of human origins Himla Soodyall and Trefor Jenkins An overview of the patterns of behavioural change in Africa and Eurasia during the Middle and Late Pleistocene Nicholas J. Conard From the tropics to the colder climates: contrasting faunal exploitation adaptations of modern humans and Neanderthals Curtis W. Marean New neighbours: interaction and image-making during the West European Middle to Upper Palaeolithic transition David Lewis-Williams Late Mousterian lithic technology: its implications for the pace of the emergence of behavioural modernity and the relationship between behavioural modernity and biological modernity Marie Soressi Exploring and quantifying technological differences between the MSA I, MSA II and Howieson’s Poort at Klasies River Sarah Wurz Stratigraphic integrity of the Middle Stone Age levels at Blombos Cave Christopher Henshilwood Testing and demonstrating the stratigraphic integrity of artefacts from MSA deposits at Blombos Cave, South Africa Zenobia Jacobs From tool to symbol: the behavioural context of intentionally marked ostrich eggshell from Diepkloof, Western Cape John Parkington, Cedric Poggenpoel, Jean-Philippe Rigaud and Pierre-Jean Texier Chronology of the Howieson’s Poort and Still Bay techno-complexes: assessment and new data from luminescence Chantal Tribolo, Norbert Mercier and Hélène Valladas Subsistence strategies in the Middle Stone Age at Sibudu Cave: the microscopic evidence from stone tool residues Bonny S. Williamson Speaking with beads: the evolutionary significance of personal ornaments Marian Vanhaeren Personal names index Subject index
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Affiche du document Organise or Die?

Organise or Die?

Raphaël Botiveau

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Indexed in Clarivate Analytics Book Citation Index (Web of Science Core Collection)Figures and Tables Acknowledgements Acronyms and Abbreviations Chapter 1 Introduction: South African Trade Unions in Apartheid and Democracy Part 1 Organisational Agency in Union Bureaucracy and Politics Chapter 2 Local Weaknesses Solved through Centralisation Chapter 3 The Power of Head Office: Building National Bureaucracy Chapter 4 Doing Union Politics: The Branches as Idealised Seat of Union Power Chapter 5 The Regions as Antechambers of National Power Part 2 Leading Mineworkers: A Charterist Leadership School Chapter 6 The Burden of Leadership Chapter 7 The Learning Organisation Chapter 8 Trajectories of Union Leaders and NUM Leadership Ideals Chapter 9 Taking Control of NUM: The Rise of the Communist Faction Chapter 10 Conclusion: From Bureaucratic Organisation to Bureaucratic Politics Index
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Affiche du document Mooi Street and Other Moves

Mooi Street and Other Moves

Paul Slabolepszy

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This collection of six plays by one of South Africa’s leading playwrights/actors features works written between 1984 and 1993. Slabolepszy, who has won many awards in South Africa and abroad both for his plays and his performances in them, is a master of dialogue, capturing the essence of the personality and speech patterns of his protagonists in language that is often dramatic, frequently funny, sometimes tragic and always entertaining. The works included are Under the Oaks, Over the Hill, Boo to the Moon, Smallholding, Mooi Street Moves and The Return of Elvis du Pisanie. Elvis won Slabolespzy the 1992/93 IGI Life Vita Award for Play of the Year and, together with Mooi Street Moves, gained him the Vita Playwright of the Year award. This collection is introduced by Robert Greig, a well-known theatre critic, and by Bobby Heaney who has been involved in the evolution of several of Slabolepszy’s plays.Glossary Introduction - Robert Greig Bringing Page to Stage – Bobby Heaney Under the Oaks Over the Hill Boo to the Moon Smallholding Mooi Street Moves The Return of Elvis du Pisanie
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Suddenly the Storm

Paul Slabolepszy

46min30

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62 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 46min.
Combative, volatile, constantly on the verge of exploding, Dwayne and Shanell Combrink are two halves of a white South African working-class couple, living an uneasy truce as they struggle with the day-to-day trials of scraping together a living and dreaming competing dreams. But beneath Dwayne’s angry, violent exterior lies the heartbreak that governs his attitude to life. Dwayne is a man in mourning. Shanell believes his current level of despair was sparked by the death of his childhood friend and recent work partner, Jonas, but the source of his mourning and anger lies much further back. When the elegant and self-contained Namhla Gumede, born on 16 June 1976, arrives on their doorstep seeking answers to questions that have remained buried for 40 years, Dwayne and Shanell finally find out the truth. What starts as a smouldering dark comedy suddenly turns into a roller-coaster ride of startling revelations, rage and recrimination … before the storm finally breaks.
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Competition Law and Economic Regulation in Southern Africa

Anthea Paelo

2h26min15

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Indexed in Clarivate Analytics Book Citation Index (Web of Science Core Collection)Tables, figures and boxes Acknowledgments Acronyms and abbreviations Introduction: The development of competition and regulation in southern Africa - Jonathan Klaaren, Simon Roberts and Imraan Valodia Part One: Cartel Law Enforcement Chapter 1 Penalties and settlements for South African cartels: An economic review - Tapera Muzata, Simon Roberts and Thando Vilakazi Chapter 2 Cartel likelihood, duration and deterrence in South Africa - Ratshidaho Maphwanya Chapter 3 Cartel enforcement in the southern African neighbourhood - Thula Kaira Part Two: Issues in Competition and Regulation Chapter 4 Excessive pricing under the spotlight: What is a competitive price? - Reena das Nair and Pamela Mondliwa Chapter 5 Competition and regulation interface in energy, telecommunications and transport in South Africa - Reena das Nair and Simon Roberts Part Three Competition and Regulation in Reshaping African Markets Chapter 6 How multinational investments in grain trading are reshaping Zambia’s market - Nicholas J. Sitko and Brian Chisanga Chapter 7 Competition and incumbency in South Africa’s liquid fuel value chain - Anthea Paelo, Genna Robb and Thando Vilakazi Chapter 8 South Africa’s renewable energy experience: Inclusive growth lessons - Gaylor Montmasson-Clair and Reena das Nair Chapter 9 Competition and regulation in Zimbabwe’s emerging mobile payments markets - Genna Robb, Isaac Tausha and Thando Vilakazi Chapter 10 Evaluating the competitiveness of Zimbabwe’s poultry industry - Tatenda Zengeni Conclusion Chapter 11 Competition, regional integration and inclusive growth in Africa: A research agenda - Simon Roberts, Thando Vilakazi and Witness Simbanegavi
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The Backroom Boy

Mandla Mathebula

1h27min45

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117 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 1h28min.
Indexed in Clarivate Analytics Book Citation Index (Web of Science Core Collection)Acknowledgements Foreword Introduction CHAPTER 1 1962, China CHAPTER 2 1961, The road to China CHAPTER 3 1944, Conscientisation CHAPTER 4 1931, Beginnings CHAPTER 5 1949, Work, marriage, political activity CHAPTER 6 1963, ‘Rev Mokete Mokoena’ CHAPTER 7 1963, Trial and conviction CHAPTER 8 1964, Prisoner 467/64 CHAPTER 9 1977, Prison life, family life CHAPTER 10 1982, Keeping track of the struggle CHAPTER 11 1985, ‘Freedom was in sight.’ CHAPTER 12 1990, the start of a new life CONCLUSION Interviews undertaken for this book Letters
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