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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. ...
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 ...
Galations 2:15-21 and the Belhar Confession (1986) in dialogue
(SUN, 2013)
This article brings Gal 2: 15-21 into dialogue with the Confession of Belhar (1986). It
starts off with the issue of the formation of confessions in Early Christianity and asks
whether there could be a confession basic ...
Living in exile: daily life and international relations at SWAPO’s Kongwa Camp
(Published by History Department, University of the Western Cape, 2011)
From 1964, when it was first granted by the Tanzanian government to OAU recognized liberation movements, Kongwa camp has been a key site in southern Africa’s exile history. First SWAPO and FRELIMO, and later the ANC, MPLA ...
A native of nowhere: the life of South African journalist Nat Nakasa, 1937-1965
(Published by History Department, University of the Western Cape, 2011)
This article examines the life and work of South African journalist Nat Nakasa
(1937-1965), a writer for the popular news magazine Drum, the first black columnist for the Johannesburg newspaper the Rand Daily Mail, and ...
The live goat ritual in Leviticus 16
(Stellenbosch University, 2013)
The live goat ritual in Leviticus 16 has, for many decades, attracted debate in biblical scholarship. However, the main focus has often been on the identity of Azazel. This article examines some aspects of the live goat ...
Witness to the makeshift shore: Ecological practice in A Littoral Zone
(UKZN, 2013)
This essay suggests that Douglas Livingstone's long poem 'A Littoral Zone'
(1991), an explicit conversation between his work as an environmental
scientist and his work as a poet, makes for a poetic statement that is, ...
The South Africa-Angola talks, 1976-1984: a little-known cold war thread
(Published by History Dept, University of the Western Cape, 2011)
That South Africa invaded Angola in 1975, in an abortive attempt to prevent a Marxist government coming to power there, and that the South African Defence Force then repeatedly attacked Angola from 1978, is relatively well ...
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 ...
Politics, freedoms and spirituality in Alaa Al Aswany's Yacouian Building
(University of Cape Town, 2013)
Although set in the 1990s and published in 2002, Alaa
Al Aswany’s novel The Yacoubian Building conveys the
corruption and brutality that led to explosive revolutions in
Egypt from 2011. Moreover, his depiction of ...