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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 ...
What on Earth did God create? Overtures to an ecumenical theology of creation
(John Wiley & Sons, 2014)
The need for an adequate theology of creation is typically taken for granted given the familiarity of the theme in terms of the Christian confession. However, at times there has been a dangerous neglect of creation theology ...
Simulacral, genealogical, auratic and representational failure: Bushman authenticity as methodological collapse
(Taylor & Francis, 2014)
This article engages with the concept of authenticity as deployed in anthropology. The first section critiques authenticity as a simple reference to cultural purity, a traditional isomorphism or historical verisimilitude ...
Talking South African fathers: a critical examination of men’s constructions and experiences of fatherhood and fatherlessness
(Sage Publications, 2012)
The absence of biological fathers in South Africa has been constructed as a problem for children of both sexes but more so for boy-children. Arguably the dominant discourse in this respect has demonized non-nuclear, ...
Late style in J.M. Coetzee's Diary of a Bad Year
(Taylor & Francis (Routledge), 2010)
J.M. Coetzee’s post-millennial writing has been marked by new forms of inventiveness, formal risk-taking and narrative experimentation that have blurred the boundaries between fiction, autobiography and social commentary. ...
South Africa's May 1968: decolonising institutions and minds
(Taylor & Francis, 2016)
Throughout 2015 students at South African universities rose up in a mass revolt. They made their voices heard from their campuses, from the streets, from the grounds of Parliament in Cape Town, and the lawns of the Union ...
Health inequality in South Africa: a systematic review
(CODESRIA, 2015)
This study presents a review of key empirical studies on health inequalities in South Africa with the aim of contributing to a comparative examination of social inequalities in health across different countries in Europe ...
Perceptions of staffriding in Post-Apartheid South Africa: the lethal thrill of speed or the masculine performance of a painful past?
(Elliot & Fitzpatrick Inc., 2010)
Staffriding, or train surfing, involves taking life threatening physical risks by moving around the outside of moving trains. In aiming to better understand this risky practice, this small scale qualitative study used three ...
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 ...
Participating unequally: Student experiences at UWC
(UNISA Press, 2017)
This paper uses Nancy Fraser’s concept of participatory parity to reflect on data gathered by and from third year students in a final year research module in the Women’s and Gender Studies Department at the University of ...