Kronos, 35 (2009)http://hdl.handle.net/10566/982024-03-29T10:25:12Z2024-03-29T10:25:12ZNot quite fair play, old chap: The complexion of cricket and sport in South AfricaNasson, Billhttp://hdl.handle.net/10566/1052016-08-30T19:49:02Z2009-01-01T00:00:00ZNot quite fair play, old chap: The complexion of cricket and sport in South Africa
Nasson, Bill
This review essay explores the racial and social divides that have permeated cricket in South Africa.
2009-01-01T00:00:00ZContestations over knowledge production or ideological bullying? A response to Legassick on the workers' movementSithole, Jabulani (Univ. of KwaZulu-Natal)http://hdl.handle.net/10566/1042016-08-30T19:49:46Z2009-01-01T00:00:00ZContestations over knowledge production or ideological bullying? A response to Legassick on the workers' movement
Sithole, Jabulani (Univ. of KwaZulu-Natal)
The key characteristic of the vast amount of literature on the South African workers
ʼ movement in the post-1973 period is the denial that the class and national
struggles were closely intertwined. This denial is underpinned by a strong ʻantinationalist
currentʼ which dismisses the national liberation struggle as ʻpopulist
and nationalistʼ and therefore antithetical to socialism. This article cautions
against uncritical endorsement of these views. It argues that they are the work
of partisan and intolerant commentators who have dominated the South African
academy since the 1970s and who have a tendency to suppress all versions of
labour history which highlight these linkages in favour of those which portray
national liberation and socialism as antinomies. The article also points out that
these commentators use history to mobilise support for their rigidly held ideological
positions and to wage current political struggles under the pretext of advancing
objective academic arguments.
2009-01-01T00:00:00ZLand distribution politics in the Eastern Cape midlands: The case of the Lukhanji municipality, 1995-2006Wotshela, Luvoyo (Univ. of Fort Hare)http://hdl.handle.net/10566/1032016-08-30T19:49:52Z2009-01-01T00:00:00ZLand distribution politics in the Eastern Cape midlands: The case of the Lukhanji municipality, 1995-2006
Wotshela, Luvoyo (Univ. of Fort Hare)
Since its initiation, South Africaʼs post-apartheid land reform programme has
generated extensive analysis and critique that in turn has yielded a body of
scholarship. Discussion revolves around the official policy of the programme,
the challenges associated with its implementation and its reception at local levels.
It cannot be overstated that much of the discourse on the formulation of the
programme itself commenced in the dying years of apartheid, through a series
of workshops, policy conferences, research projects and publications. Prompted
by glaring disparities in the countryʼs social and living conditions and primarily
by entrenched imbalanced landownership, contemporary land reform dialogue
has a well-built backdrop. What, however, is our understanding of local community
politics that played perceptible roles in triggering land redistribution and
facilitating patterns of settlement? This article gives some insight into a veiled
history of interplay between community mobilisation politics, governance and
official land reform policy in the Lukhanji municipality of the Eastern Cape during
South Africaʼs transitional years of 1995 to 2006. After outlining how land
redistribution was initially driven by forces operating outside government action,
the article proceeds to illustrate the frailty of the government land redistribution
accomplishment. Moreover, it demonstrates the complex nature of a rural setting
that has arisen from community-facilitated and incipient government land redistribution
achievements in the area.
2009-01-01T00:00:00ZUtopia Live: Singing the Mozambican struggle for national liberationIsrael, Paolohttp://hdl.handle.net/10566/1022016-08-30T19:49:43Z2009-01-01T00:00:00ZUtopia Live: Singing the Mozambican struggle for national liberation
Israel, Paolo
This article engages a historical reconstruction of the formation of Makonde
revolutionary singing in the process of the Mozambican liberation struggle. The
history of ʻUtopia liveʼ is here entrusted to wartime genres, marked by heteroglossia
and the use of metaphor, and referring to moments when the ʻspace of
experienceʼ and the ʻhorizon of expectationʼ of the Struggle were still filled with
uncertainty and the sense of possibility. Progressively, however, singing expressions
were reorganised around socialismʼs nodes of meaning. Ideological tropes,
elaborated by Frelimoʼs ʻcourtlyʼ composers, were appropriated in popular singing.
The relations between the ʻpeopleʼ and their leaders were made apparent
through the organization of the performance space. The main contention of the
article is that unofficiality, heteroglossia, metaphor and poetic license, although
they feature in genres that have been marked out as ʻpopularʼ in academic discourse,
are by no means intrinsically ʻpopularʼ. Much on the contrary, they
are the first victims of populist modes of political actions, that is, of a politics
grounded on a concept of ʻpeopleʼ.
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