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‘… Oi, oi! … you must go by the right path’: Mofolo’s Chaka revisited via the original text
(University of Pretoria, 2016)
Thomas Mofolo never defended himself against accusations that his novel Chaka distorts historical facts to express anti-Nguni sentiments under the guise of Christianity. But in a way he foreshadowed the possibility of it, ...
Crime, community and the governance of violence in post-apartheid South Africa
(Taylor and Francis Group, 2008)
The South African government has embarked on a programme ofencouraging social cohesion in South Africa first to address concerns stemmingfrom high levels of violent crime which characterise the society, and second, ...
Individual and area-level socioeconomic correlates of hypertension prevalence, awareness, treatment, and control in uMgungundlovu, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
(BMC, 2023)
Hypertension is the second leading risk factor for death in South Africa, and rates have steadily
increased since the end of Apartheid. Research on the determinants of hypertension in South Africa has received
considerable ...
The letters of Sushila Gandhi: From press worker to managing trustee of Phoenix settlement in South Africa, 1927 to 1977
(SAGE Publications, 2023)
On 18 March 1949, Sita Gandhi, the eldest daughter of Manilal and Sushila Gandhi, responded to a request for information from Louis Fischer who was writing his biography of Mohandas Gandhi. The 21 years old had taken over ...
Performing the struggle against apartheid opposing apartheid on stage: King Kong the musical
(Cambridge University Press, 2023)
Tyler Fleming’s book provides an account of the first production of ‘King Kong’ — a musical theatre
production based on the life of the boxer Ezekiel Dlamini — in 1959. This musical rankled the
apartheid state partly ...
Between racial madness and neoliberal reason: Metonymic contagion in apartheid biopower
(Taylor and Francis Group, 2023)
I will seek to consider the simultaneous workings of race and capital in apartheid biopower. J.M. Coetzee offers a reading of apartheid racism as racial madness which is imbricated with economic reason. In the wake of the ...
’n Geskiedenis van Afrikaans as kerktaal: Van altaar tot kansel
(University of Pretoria, 2022)
This contribution shines a critical light on the representation of Afrikaans as a language of
the Church in external histories about the development and advancement of the language,
inclusive histories particularly. It ...
Genetic heritage of the Baphuthi highlights an over-ethnicized notion of “Bushman” in the Maloti-Drakensberg, southern Africa
(Cell Press, 2023)
Using contemporary people as proxies for ancient communities is a contentious but necessary practice in anthropology. In southern Africa, the distinction between the Cape KhoeSan and eastern KhoeSan remains unclear, as ...
Patient satisfaction with health care providers in South Africa: The influences of race and socioeconomic status
(Oxford University Press, 2005)
The first democratic government elected in South Africa in 1994 inherited huge inequalities in health status and
health provision across all sections of the population. This study set out to assess, 4 years later, the ...
Expanding the boundaries through African women’s theologies
(Wiley, 2022)
The development and key features of African women’s theologies, primarily through the
Circle of Concerned African Women Theologians, has entered the mainstream of theological
education, which could provide insights for ...