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Sara's suicide: History and the representational limit
(University of the Western Cape, 2000)
This paper deals with cognitive failures and historiographical blind spots in legal and historical representations of the colonised subject. It concerns an archival fragment from the seventeenth century - the suicide of a ...
Accidental feminists? Recent histories of South African women
(History Department, University of the Western Cape, 2007)
This article reviews Helen Scanlon's book, "Representation and reality", and Nombonisa Gasa's "Women in South African history", and locates each against the historiography of South African women's history
Identiteit en seksualiteit in die debuutromans van Kirby van der Merwe en Clark Accord
(Alv-Tydskriffonds, 2003)
This article analyses the debut novels of the Afrikaans writer Kirby van der Merwe and the Surinamese writer Clark Accord. It focuses on the representation of identity and sexuality to posit an image of the individual ...
Demanding satisfaction: Violence, masculinity and honour in late eighteenth century Cape Town
(Published by History Department, University of the Western Cape, 2009)
This article analyses two separate cases of public violence which took place in
Cape Town in the summer of 1772/3. At surface level they appear to be very different
in character. One was a scrap among low-ranking soldiers ...
'This thing called reconciliation…' Forgiveness as part of an interconnectedness-towards-wholeness
(Philosophical Society of Southern Africa, 2008)
Regular reference is made, within the discourse around the South African
Truth and Reconciliation Commission, to the fact that ubuntu, an indigenous
world view, played a role in the process. This paper tries to show that ...
The information landscape: political democracy versus epistemic games with specific reference to South African communities
(University of Free State, 2004)
The South African government and proffessions are taking stock of the transforamtion of the last decade. Manucipalities still face serious problems such as urbun populattion growth, poverty, housing shortages environmental ...
Men and children: Changing constructions of fatherhood in Drum magazine, 1951-1965
(HSRC Press, 2006)
This chapter explores changing representations of fatherhood and masculinity in Drum magazine over the course of the 1950s. In the early 1950s men were portrayed in close proximity to their children and adult masculinities ...
The earth in God’s economy: Reflections on the narrative of God’s work
(Stellenbosch University, 2008)
This essay is an abbreviated version of an inaugural lecture, read on 24 October
2007 at the University of the Western Cape. It investigates the role of cosmological
narratives that help people to understand where they ...
Language shift or maintenance? Factors determining the use of Afrikaans among some township youth in South Africa
(Stellenbosch University, 2008)
To investigate how high school learners in a township school in South Africa report on
their use of, and attitudes toward, their first language, Afrikaans; and to use the findings to show how, given their particular ...
Conquering the publishing silences of black academic women
(University of the Western Cape, 2006)
Although women fulfil and play meaningful roles in the academic life of universities, their contributions have seldom been acknowledged. The voices of women outside of the dominant western context of knowledge production ...