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Race, resistance and translation: the case of John Buchan’s UPrester John

Wittenberg, Hermann (Taylor & Francis (Routledge), 2011)

In postcolonial translation studies, increasing attention is being given to the asymmetrical relationships between dominant and indigenous languages. This paper argues that John Francis Cele’s UPrester John (1958), is not ...

Rationalizing gukurahundi: cold war and South African foreign relations with Zimbabwe, 1981-1983

Scarnecchia, Timothy (Kent State University) (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 ...

Readiness to adopt e-learning: pioneering a course in school librarianship education

Zinn, Sandy (Library and Information Association of South Africa, 2009)

E-learning has come of age in South African higher education but scepticism, caution and an inadequate reward system for innovative teaching methods have resulted in a slow uptake by academics. Within this milieu the author ...

Reading and representing African refugees in New York

Field, Sean (University of Cape Town) (Published by University of the Western Cape, 2011)

Tracy Kidder and Jonny Steinberg have constructed evocative biographies of African refugees’ dislocation, journeys and struggles to settle in the USA. These books are reviewed through the lens of how South African readers ...

The recycling industry and subsistence waste collectors: a case study of Mitchell's Plain

Langenhoven, Belinda; Dyssel, Michael (Springer, 2007)

The article reflects the findings of a survey undertaken in Mitchell’s Plain and presents a case study of the factors that impact recycle-related employment tendencies and opportunities in the area of the Cape Flats in ...

Risk and protective factors to male interpersonal violence: views of some male university students

Clowes, Lindsay; Lazarus, Sandy; Ratele, Kopano (Medical Research Council, 2010)

This article reports on a study that sought to elicit the views of male university students on risk and protective factors to male interpersonal violence. The participants were 116 third-year students who participated ...

Risk and protective factors to male interpersonal violence: Views of some male university students

Clowes, Lindsay; Lazarus, Sandy; Ratele, Kopano (Medical Research Council, Tygerberg, 2010)

This article reports on a study that sought to elicit the views of male university students on risk and protective factors to male interpersonal violence. The participants were 116 third-year students who participated in ...

Road to Ghana: Nkrumah, Southern Africa and the eclipse of a decolonizing Africa

Ahlman, Jeffrey S. (Johns Hopkins University) (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. ...

Santu Mofokeng, photographs: 'the violence is in the knowing'

Hayes, Patricia (Wiley - Blackwell Publishing, 2009)

Born in 1956, Santu Mofokeng formed part of the Afrapix Collective that engaged in exposé and documentary photography of anti-apartheid resistance and social conditions during the 1980s in South Africa. However, Mofokeng ...

School principals and their responses to the rights and needs of pregnant and parenting learners

Clowes, Lindsay; D’Amant, Toni; Nkani, Vuyo (HSRC Press, 2012)

Searching for new library models: Two South African case studies of services to youth

Hart, Genevieve (2012)

South Africa is a youthful society with 54% younger than 24 years. South African young people face disproportionately high rates of unemployment, HIV-AIDS infection, and violent crime. Even in post-apartheid South Africa, ...

Service learning in a course in children's & youth library & information services: a case study

Hart, Genevieve (Community High Education Service Partnership, 2008)

Social capital: a fresh vision for public libraries in South Africa

Hart, Genevieve (Library and Information Association of South Africa, 2007)

The article argues that the construct of social capital offers South African public librarianship fresh vision – urgently needed if it is to fulfil its potential role in social inclusion. Social capital refers to the ...

The South Africa-Angola talks, 1976-1984: a little-known cold war thread

Saunders, Christopher (University of Cape Town) (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 ...

South African schools' responses to pregnant girls and young parents: a study of some Durban and Cape Town secondary schools

Bhana, Deevia; Clowes, Lindsay; Morrell, Robert; Shefer, Tamara (Unisa Press and Taylor & Francis, 2008)

Since the promulgation of the South African Schools Act in 1996 it has become illegal to exclude pregnant girls from school. Influenced by feminist research, policy has sought to assist pregnant girls and young parents to ...

"Speak out" - issues in participatory materials development

Bock, Zannie (University of Stellenbosch, 1999)

This article outlines the development of a beginner English course called 'Speak Out' for adults in Adult Basic Education and Training classes in the early 1990s. The course uses an innovative roleplay methodology which ...

Students’ navigation of the uncharted territories of academic writing

Bharuthram, Sharita; McKenna, Sioux (Rhodes University) (Taylor & Francis, 2012)

Many students enter tertiary education unfamiliar with the ‘norms and conventions’ of their disciplines. Research into academic literacies has shown that in order to succeed in their studies, students are expected to ...

The taint of the censor: J.M. Coetzee and the making of In the Heart of the Country

Wittenberg, Hermann (Institute for the Study of English in Africa, Rhodes University, 2008)

With the publication of In the Heart of the Country by the London publisher Secker & Warburg in 1977, J. M. Coetzee had achieved international recognition for his second novel, transcending the narrow national literary ...

Talking South African fathers: a critical examination of men’s constructions and experiences of fatherhood and fatherlessness

Ratele, Kopano; Shefer, Tamara; Clowes, Lindsay (Sage Publications, 2012)

The absence of biological fathers in South Africa has been constructed as a problem for children of both sexes but more so for boy-children. Arguably the dominant discourse in this respect has demonized non-nuclear, ...

Ten years of democracy: attitudes and identity among some South African school children

Dyers, Charlyn (Stellenbosch University, 2004)

Ten years into South Africa’s democracy, how do school children feel about themselves as part of specific groups, and what is the role of language in their socio-cultural identities? This paper looks at the ways in which ...

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