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    • African Migrants, Xenophobia and Urban Violence in Post-apartheid South Africa 

      Tevera, Daniel (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 ...

    • African Pentecostal churches and racialized xenophobia: International migrants as agents of transformational development? 

      Hankela, Elina; Swart, Ignatius; Nishimwe, Clementine (SAGE, 2022)
      Scholarship on Pentecostal potential and practice forms a significant part of the debate on religion and development, not least when the focus is on sub-Saharan Africa. Yet in this debate African Pentecostal migrant communities ...

    • African studies keywords: Queer 

      Otu, Kwame E.; van Klinken, Adriaan (Cambridge University Press, 2023)
      “Queer” is a relatively recent and somewhat controversial term in African studies. Yet it is proving to be productive, not only for understanding African subjectivities of sexuality and gender, but also for situating ...

    • 'Africanisation' of South Africa's international air links, 1994-2003 

      Pirie, Gordon (Elsevier, 2006)
      In the first decade of democratic rule in South Africa scheduled commercial passenger flights across the country’s borders more than doubled. Additional flights served new African air passenger markets and secondary airports ...

    • Africa’s living rivers: Managing for sustainability 

      King, Jackie; Brown, Cate (MIT Press, 2021)
      Africa’s human population is growing rapidly and is set to account for 40 percent of global numbers by 2100. Further development of its inland waters, to enhance water and energy security, is inevitable. Will it follow ...

    • Afrikaans students’ use of emojis 

      Donovan, Lawrence (South African Academy for Science and the Arts, 2023)
      Everyday five billion emojis are used on Facebook Messenger, one out of every five Twitter messages contains an emoji and half of all Instagram comments have an emoji (Emojipedia. org, 2022). The use of emojis in online ...

    • After thought: Why not a prism? 

      Flockemann, Miki (University of the Western Cape, 2019)
      This special issue of Multilingual Margins is an excellent example of how the guiding concepts of a project are put into practice. The framing of the Re-imagining Multilingualisms project is presented here in what can ...

    • Aftershocks: Psychotechnics in the wake of apartheid 

      Truscott, Ross; Smith, Michelle (Taylor & Francis, 2016)
      What we at first found intriguing about Simon Gush’s Red, what the documentary and the installation seemed to mutually conjure, was the Mandela car as a body to be mourned.2 Mourning recurred as a latent theme through the ...

    • Against trauma: silence, victimhood, and (photo-) voice in Northern Namibia 

      Becker, Heike (UFS, 2015)
      The article shows how the discourses of trauma, victimhood and silence regarding local agency contributed to the production of the nationalist master narrative in postcolonial Namibia. However, I point out repositories of ...

    • ‘… The Agapanthi, Asphodels of the Negroes…’: Life-writing, landscape and race in the South African diaries and poetry of George Seferis 

      Field, Roger (Taylor & Francis, 2012)
      The Greek poet George Seferis (1900-1971) spent 10 months in South Africa during WWII as a senior diplomatic official attached to the Greek government in exile. Drawing on his diary entries, correspondence and poetry ...

    • The agent-relative/agent-neutral distinction: my two sense(s) 

      Lerm, Jessica (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 ...

    • AIDS activism and globalisation from below: Occupying new spaces of citizenship in post-apartheid South Africa 

      Robins, Steven; von Lieres, Bettina (Institute of Development Studies, 2004)
      Former President Nelson Mandela, Bono, Peter Gabriel and other superstars stood together on the stage at Greenpoint StadiuminCape Town in front of billions of television viewers around the world, watching the “46664”music ...

    • Alan Paton’s sublime: race, landscape and the transcendence of the liberal imagination 

      Wittenberg, Hermann (University of KwaZulu Natal, 2005)
      This article develops a postcolonial reading of the sublime by suggesting that aesthetic theories of the sublime were, in their classical philosophical formulations by Edmund Burke and Immanuel Kant, founded on problematic ...

    • Alan Paton’s writing for the stage: towards a non-racial South African theatre 

      Wittenberg, Hermann (Taylor & Francis (Routledge), 2007)
      Introduction: It would not be an exaggeration to assert that no South African playwright in the 1950s and 1960s received as much international attention and recognition as Alan Paton, until eclipsed by Athol Fugard’s ...

    • An aligned alliance in allegiance to the drum beat of higher education's transformation agenda: A critical discourse lens 

      Maürtin-Cairncross, Anita (MCSER Publishing, 2014)
      This paper includes an overview of transformation challenges faced by Higher Education globally, nationally and provides concluding remarks of the urgency that all staff who works in this sector understands and exemplify ...

    • All the Tokoloshes are dying 

      Pancham, Kershan ikram (Routledge, 2021)
      The last line of defence, when even the most distant tokoloshe returned, Took up a place of arms or/of wisdom, to make the last stand of the world. Even the oldest ones returned, long away in their peace and nature after ...

    • All theology is natural theology: The hermeneutic necessity of natural theology? 

      Conradie, Ernst (Stellenbosch University, 2011)
      This article first offers a brief overview of the history of what is understood under "natural theology". The contrast between the Barthian critique against natural theology and the dangers of repudiating natural theology ...

    • All together now? 

      Nassimbeni, Mary (International Association of School Librarianship Conference, 2019)
      The paper explores the meaning of the recently drafted National Policy for Library and Information Services (NPLIS) for school librarianship in South Africa. It argues that, after years of failed advocacy, a convergence ...

    • Alternative perspectives on orality, literacy and education: a view from South Africa. 

      Bock, Zannie; Gough, David H. (Routledge, 2001)
      The question of the 'great divide' between orality and literacy has been critically addressed by various scholars of literacy, including social literacy theorists. This paper uses the notions of primary and secondary ...

    • Am I my brother’s keeper? on personal identity and responsibility 

      Beck, Simon (Philosophical Society of Southern Africa, 2013)
      The psychological continuity theory of personal identity has recently been accused of not meeting what is claimed to be a fundamental requirement on theories of identity - to explain personal moral responsibility. Although ...