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Notions and forms of ecumenicity: some South African perspectives
(SUN Press, 2013)This contribution addresses the abstract question of how the adjective “ecumenical” may be understood. What notions and forms of ecumenicity may be identified? There may be no single authoritative definition, but one may ... -
Now into big strides: report on statutory status for the South African Library and Information Services sector
(Library & Information Association of South Africa, 2012)The road to acquiring statutory status for the Library and Information Services (LIS) sector in South Africa has been traversed numerous times over the last sixty to seventy years. In more recent years, there has been ... -
Nyanja/Chewa proverbs as didactics: Recontextualising indigenous knowledge for academic writing
(Taylor & Francis, 2016)The paper explores how Nyanja/Chewa proverbs as stores of indigenous knowledge can be used to teach Nyanja/Chewa morphology and grammar, and as a tool to sensitise learners on aspects of academic writing. Using systemic ... -
Observatory's linguistic landscape: semiotic appropriation and the reinvention of space
(Taylor & Francis, 2014)Using a longitudinal ethnographic study of the linguistic landscape (LL) in Observatory's business corridor of Lower Main Road, the paper explores changes brought about by the influx of immigrant Africans, their artefacts ... -
Obstetric violence within students’ rite of passage: The reproduction of the obstetric subject and its racialised (m)other
(UNISA Press, 2021)Building on the work of Mbembe (2019) and Silva (2007), we theorise how the obstetric institution can still be considered fundamentally modern, that is, entangled with colonialism, slavery, bio- and necropolitics ... -
Oceans
(Routledge, 2021)One day, long ago, a little boy was killed. He was used up, and discarded, and thrown away, left for secret dumping, the nameless dead, floating in a sea of sinking secrets. -
Of borders and crossings: The lives of a healer in northern Mozambique
(Journal of Southern African Studies, 2022)Background: Daria Trentini’s book is a narrative exploration of the life and practice of a healer in the northern Mozambican city of Nampula. Ansha, the titular protagonist, was a Makonde migrant from the province of Cabo ... -
‘… Oi, oi! … you must go by the right path’: Mofolo’s Chaka revisited via the original text
(University of Pretoria, 2016)Thomas Mofolo never defended himself against accusations that his novel Chaka distorts historical facts to express anti-Nguni sentiments under the guise of Christianity. But in a way he foreshadowed the possibility of it, ... -
Old ideas: wisdom, virtue and moral formation
(Stellenbosch University, 2013)The wisdom writings of the Old Testament may be regarded as largely a repository of ‘old ideas’ that were preserved across cultures and ages because they generally served human life. To study the material from this angle, ... -
On and beyond artifacts in moral relations: accounting for power and violence in Coeckelbergh’s social relationism
(Springer, 2021)The ubiquity of technology in our lives and its culmination in artifcial intelligence raises questions about its role in our moral considerations. In this paper, we address a moral concern in relation to technological ... -
On Jesus Christ as Mediator of creation
(Stellenbosch University, 2013)This contribution offers reflection on two of Dirkie Smit's conversation partners, namely Herman Bavinck and Karl Barth. It notes that both are deeply Trinitarian theologians, but also that such a Trinitarian approach has ... -
On social evil and natural evil: in conversation with Christopher Southgate
(Wiley, 2018)In this contribution, the author engages in a conversation with Christopher Southgate on the relationship between social evil and what is called natural “evil.” Theologically, this centers around an understanding of creation ... -
On uncertainty
(University of the Western Cape, Centre for Humanities, 2018)There is some uncertainty written into the form of this paper because, while it seeks to use scholarly procedures in engaging with the philosophical questions provoked by Ludwig Wittgenstein's late speculative essay On ... -
Only a fully trinitarian theology will do, but where can that be found?
(Stellenbosch University, 2013)The argument of this contribution, departing from a famous article by Arnold van Ruler, is that a fully Trinitarian theology requires attention to God's work and not only God's identity and character. The three relationships ... -
Ons is Boesmans: commentary on the naming of Bushmen in the southern Kalahari
(National Inquiry Services Centre, 2015)This paper examines academic debates about the nomenclature of the San in light of recent ethnographic data. Academic debates centre around two aspects: the apparent complicity of the term “bushman” in construing the San ... -
"Ons skryf soos ons praat": Informalisering van geskrewe Afrikaans onder Afrikaanse tieners
(LitNet, 2019)Taal is voortdurend aan die verander, en een van die kragte wat op taalverandering inwerk, is informalisering, dit is die integrasie van spreektaalvorme in die skryftaal. Daar is, sover vasgestel kon word, nog geen studies ... -
Oral literature in South Africa: 20 years on
(Taylor & Francis, 2016)I offer a retrospective on the field of orality and performance studies in South Africa from the perspective of 2016, assessing what has been achieved, what may have happened inadvertently or worryingly, what some of the ... -
Orders of protection: Feminist lessons in anti-privatization and authoritarianism from South Africa
(Society for Cultural Anthropology, 2022)The feminist adage “the personal is political” is not ahistorical. It is being operationalized in a time when the relationship between the private and the public is undergoing historic transformation. Making privatized ... -
The organisation of urban agriculture in Cape Town, South Africa: A social capital perspective
(Routledge, 2019)This article explores urban agriculture in Cape Town and its organisational forms. Based on a literature review of peerreviewed articles and grey literature, it examines the state of linkages among urban farmers and ... -
Outcomes-based education and non-English mother tongue speakers from disadvantaged environments: a double-edged handicap to acquiring information literacy
(Unisa Press, 2000)Information literacy is the ability to access and critically engage with information, and to communicate new understandings which lead to knowledge and wisdom. Information literacy skills are incorporated in our ...