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False fathers and false sons: Immigration officials in Cape Town, documents and verifying minor sons from India in the first half of the twentieth century
(University of the Western Cape, 2014)
This article examines the rituals of admission to Cape Town, developed by the immigration bureaucracy at the port, for minor sons from India. It provides a context for why the entry of sons of established Indian residents ...
Texting literacies as social practices among older women
(Stellenbosch University, 2014)
While many studies on mobile messaging have tended to focus on the communicative
practices of the urban young, this paper considers the role of mobile messaging (also called
texting) both as a social practice as well as ...
Paper regimes
(University of the Western Cape, 2014)
In 1915 Baba Bapoo, a store assistant in Cape Town, was thrown into a state of great mental and emotional stress when he lost his permit en route to India. This was the only document that could guarantee his re-admission ...
Towards an approach to development as mission: the category of personhood as addressed by Amartya Sen?
(Stellenbosch University, 2014)
This paper is concerned with the role of personhood in development. I will be looking
at the extent to which the influential model of development proposed by Amartya Sen
does justice to the category of personhood. I will ...
I am/am I an African? A relational reading of 'Diaspora and Identity in South African Fiction' by J.U. Jacobs
(AOSIS, 2017)
The publication of Diaspora and Identity in South African Fiction (2016) by J.U. Jacobs is a timely
intervention, in that it is the first comprehensive study of South African fiction to sustain the
argument that South ...
Intimate partner violence during pregnancy in Zimbabwe: across-sectional study of prevalence, predictors and associations with HIV
(Public Library of Science, 2013)
objective To describe the occurrence, dynamics and predictors of intimate partner violence (IPV)
during pregnancy, including links with HIV, in urban Zimbabwe.
methods A cross-sectional survey of 2042 post-natal women ...
Code-switching: An appraisal resource in TRC testimonies
(John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2011)
This article analyses the function that code-switching plays in selected testimonies given at South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission which followed the country's transition to democracy in 1994. In a number of ...
Imagining nation, state, and order in the mid-twentieth century
(Published by History Department, University of the Western Cape, 2011)
This essay considers the relationship between the United Nations and the Third
World. Using the apartheid debate as a framing device, it explores Indian and
African nationalism in the mid-1940s and early 1960s. In focusing ...
Un/making difference through performance and mediation in contemporary Africa
(Taylor & Francis, 2017)
This special issue of the Journal of African Cultural Studies grew out of a panel we organized at the European Conference on African Studies in Lisbon in June 2013. Our starting point was the observation of a massive revival ...
Transplant thought-experiments: Two costly mistakes in discounting them
(Taylor & Francis, 2014)
‘Transplant’ thought-experiments, in which the cerebrum is moved from one body to another have featured in a number of recent discussions in the personal identity literature. Once taken as offering confirmation of some ...