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Anxious urbanity: xenophobia, the native subject and the refugee camp
(Routledge Taylor Francis Group, 2013)
Could we think of the black subject under apartheid as a refugee, and might this
condition be the paradigmatic metaphor for thinking about the postcolonial African
predicament of citizenship? This paper considers the ...
‘It’s just taking our souls back’: discourses of apartheid and race
(Routledge, 2015)
Although apartheid officially ended in 1994, the issue of race as a primary identity marker has continued to permeate many aspects of private and public life in post-apartheid South Africa. This paper seeks to understand ...
Matters of age: An introduction to ageing, intergenerationality and gender in Africa
(Taylor & Francis and UNISA, 2012)
This introductory essay to this special issue of Agenda draws together a wide-ranging, cross-disciplinary
literature on ageing, intergenerationality and gender, and locates the significance of writing from Africa within
this ...
Prevention of civil war in Joshua 22: guidelines for African ethnic groups
(Old Testament Society of SA, 2013)
Have you ever jumped to a conclusion before hearing both sides of a story? Have you ever failed to give someone the benefit of the doubt, even though they had never wronged you? "There Are Two Sides to Every Story." Joshua ...
The Anglican Church and Feminism: Challenging the patriarchy of our faith
(2013)
Gender-based violence is a problem in most Southern African countries and yet it has generally received little attention from governments and civil society—including Christian churches. In recent years, some churches have ...
Sê sjibbolet: ’n intertekstuele lees
(University of Pretoria, 2012)
This article pursues an intertextual reading of Adam Small's collection of poetry Sê sjibbolet ("Say shibboleth"). The collection is read alongside texts that refer to "shibboleth" in their titles i.e. works by Paul Celan, ...
The agent-relative/agent-neutral distinction: my two sense(s)
(Philosophical Society of Southern Africa, 2013)
The agent-relative/agent-neutral distinction is very well established and widely employed in the metaethical literature. However, I argue that there are actually two different senses of the distinction at large: the ...
Rationalizing gukurahundi: cold war and South African foreign relations with Zimbabwe, 1981-1983
(Published by University of the Western Cape, 2011)
This article examines the role of diplomatic relations during the first stages of the
1983 Gukurahundi in Zimbabwe. Based on a preliminary reading of South African
Department of Foreign Affairs files for 1983, the article ...
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 ...