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Perceptions of traditional health practitioners on violence in the Helderberg Municipal Area, Western Cape
(AOSIS OpenJournals, 2013)
This study on perceptions of violence was conducted with 56 traditional health practitioners (diviners: amagrirha) in the Helderberg Municipal Area of Cape Town Metro. It forms a subsection of a larger study on African ...
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 ...
International trends in health tourism: Implications for thermal spring tourism in the Western Cape Province of South Africa
(University of the Western Cape, Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, 2013)
Travel to thermal springs for the sake of health and healing can be traced at least as far back as the ancient Greeks and Romans, with the earliest forms of tourism being based on apparent curative powers of mineral-rich ...
African Migrants, Xenophobia and Urban Violence in Post-apartheid South Africa
(University of the Western Cape, Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, 2013)
The urban space in South Africa is increasingly becoming a troubled terrain of xenophobic violence. In recent years xenophobia has emerged as one of the major contributing factors to urban violence in several African ...
Activity-based market segmentation of visitors to thermal spring resorts in the Western Cape Province, South Africa: Assessing the potential for health tourism development
(University of the Western Cape, Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, 2013)
There are eight thermal spring resorts in the Western Cape. Only one of these resorts has a focus on health and wellness, with the others functioning primarilyas family leisure resorts. Considering apparent domestic and ...
The ambiguity of Johan Heyns: Sitting at Bavinck's left or right hand?
(SUN, 2013)
Following some biographic introductory comments,
the argument of this contribution
proceeds in two steps. First, the distinction between Herman Bavinck's left and right hand is
clarified, amongst others with reference ...
The importance of confronting a colonial, patriarchal and racist past in addressing post-apartheid sexual violence
(UNISA, 2013)
This commentary uses Judge Willem van der Merwe’s rescripting of Rudyard Kipling’s ‘If’ poem during the Jacob Zuma rape trial as a starting point to argue for the importance of understanding the ways in which spectres of ...
The politics and aesthetics of commemoration: national days in southern Africa
(Taylor & Francis, 2013)
The contributions to the special section in this issue study recent independence celebrations and other national days in South
Africa, Namibia, Zimbabwe, Madagascar and the Democratic Republic of Congo. They explore the ...
From 'One Namibia, One Nation' towards 'Unity in Diversity? Shifting representations of culture and nationhood in Namibian Independence Day celebrations, 1990-2010
(Taylor & Francis, 2013)
In 2010 Namibia celebrated its twentieth anniversary of independence from South African rule. The main celebrations in the
country’s capital Windhoek became the stage for an impressively orchestrated demonstration of ...
Towards a critical heritage studies
(Taylor & Francis, 2013)
Anna Karlström’s article made me think of
the inaugural conference of the International
Association of Critical Heritage Studies held in
Gothenburg in June 2012. At the conference,
heritage scholars and graduate ...