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Relocation: to be or not to be a black diamond in a South African township?
(Elsevier, 2013)Beginning in the mid-1990s, South Africa’s geopolitical, social and economic landscapes have been rapidly transforming. Driven primarily by government policy particularly after 1994, these changes have among other effects ... -
Remembering Marikana: Public art intervention and the right to the city in Cape Town
(Taylor & Francis, 2018)This article investigates the role played by cultural initiatives in urban struggles in South Africa, and the emergence of public art to assert the right to the city. I explore how artistic– activist interventions engage ... -
Renegotiating cultural practices as a result of HIV in the eastern region of Malawi
(Routledge, 2014)A number of studies have shown that HIV awareness is very high among Malawians and yet infection rates are rising. Local cultural practices have been identified as contributing to this contradictory situation. Using data ... -
Reopening Agaat: Afrikaans, Encyclopedic Narrative, World Literature
(Routledger, 2021)This essay offers a meditation on Marlene van Niekerk’s 2004 novel Agaat as an encyclopedic (or, more exactly, a counter-encyclopedic) narrative, as defined–controversially–by Edward Mendelson in an influential 1976 polemic. ... -
Repeating and disrupting embodied histories through performance: Exhibit A Mies Julie and Itsoseng
(Taylor & Francis, 2013)The concern about South African arts being - as Achille Mbembe claims - ‘stuck in repetition’ can be challenged by examining developments in the performance arts which deliberately employ repetition. In these cases ... -
Representations of revolutionary violence in recent Indian and South African fiction
(Taylor & Francis, 2017)Several recent novels in English by Indian and South African authors explore the theme of violent political resistance to the entrenched injustices of the hierarchical Indian social order and South Africa’s institutionalised ... -
Resisting the binarism of victim and agent: Critical reflections on 20 years of scholarship on young women and heterosexual practices in South African contexts
(Taylor & Francis, 2016)The last 20 years have seen a proliferation of research, spurred by the imperatives of the HIV epidemic and reportedly high rates of gender-based violence, on heterosexual practices in the South African context. Research ... -
Rethinking medicinal plants and plant medicines
(National Inquiry Services Centre, 2018)Because plants are perceived as sessile and immobile, they are often represented as objects or things in current literature. In this paper, I explore variations and shifts in research and literature since 2000 that ... -
Review of Semiotic Landscapes: Language, Image, Spaceby Adam Jaworski and Crispin Thurlow
(CMDR, 2015)Although the volume was published in 2010, it still remains one of the most important contributions to a new field of enquiry in the study of language and signage in public spaces initially conceptualised and ... -
Revitalizing higher education in Africa: a review of health research (in social science) in African universities
(IJRDO, 2017)What is the agenda for health research in Social Sciences in African Universities? To what extent has university led research in the area of health revitalized higher education in Africa? This paper examines through a ... -
Rhetorical appeal and the uncertainty of hope
(Stellenbosch University, 2013)The article examines an article that Dirk Smit wrote about rhetoric and theology against the background of other of his articles, particularly about the Confession of Belhar. It argues that Smit’s article is “judiciously ... -
Risk and protective factors to male interpersonal violence: views of some male university students
(Medical Research Council, 2010)This article reports on a study that sought to elicit the views of male university students on risk and protective factors to male interpersonal violence. The participants were 116 third-year students who participated ... -
Risk and protective factors to male interpersonal violence: Views of some male university students
(Medical Research Council, Tygerberg, 2010)This article reports on a study that sought to elicit the views of male university students on risk and protective factors to male interpersonal violence. The participants were 116 third-year students who participated in ... -
The road not travelled: Tracking love in Frank Anthony’s the journey: The revolutionary anguish of Comrade B
(2023)The Journey (1991) is a virtually unknown “struggle” novel by Frank Anthony (d. 1993), a senior member of the African People’s Democratic Union of Southern Africa (APDUSA), who was incarcerated on Robben Island for ... -
Road to Ghana: Nkrumah, Southern Africa and the eclipse of a decolonizing Africa
(Published by History Department, University of the Western Cape, 2011)This article interrogates the position of Accra as an ‘extra-metropolitan’ centre for southern African anti-colonial nationalists and anti-apartheid activists during the so-called ‘first wave’ of Africa’s decolonization. ... -
The role of linguistic context in children’s interpretation and acquisition of Cicewa idiomatic expressions: A systemic functional linguistics approach
(Taylor & Francis, 2017)Research findings have shown that linguistic context helps young children to infer the figurative meaning of an idiom and learn the meaning. In this study, the role of linguistic context in children’s interpretation and ... -
The role of personhood in development: An African perspective on development in South Africa
(Southern African Missiological Society (SAMS), 2017)The question that this article addresses is the role of personhood in development in post-Apartheid South Africa. Modernisation and Dependency theories have not been successful in the development of South Africa over the ... -
The ‘Rough edge of deterritorialisation’: Contemplation
(Taylor & Francis, 2016)To frame this paper, which given its focus on the installation Red should ostensibly deal with a question of aesthetics and technology, with an epigraph that situates the contemplative capacity of a cow alongside the echo ... -
Rulers or servants? A re-reading of psalm 8 concerning the place of humankind in the age of the anthropocene
(Stellenbosch University, 2022)With the Age of the Anthropocene and the clear signs of ecological destruction that have resulted from this rule of humans over the creation of God, it is essential that biblical scholars revisit the texts, both in the Old ... -
Rural-urban disparities in health and health care in Africa: Cultural competence, lay-beliefs in narratives of diabetes among the rural poor in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa
(CODESRIA, 2017)Rural-urban disparities in health and health care in Africa have been well described; yet, they remain relatively of less concern among many issues in health and health care in Africa. The disparities have been documented ...