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Looking back
(José Frantz, 2020)
Professors Patricia Hayes and Premesh Lalu have in this edition of Signals provided useful insight into the importance of theory,
history, archives and the humanities in South Africa, and how
they can help “assist us in ...
The enchantment of freedom at University of the Western Cape
(José Frantz, 2020)
The history of the modern university is ,first and foremost ,the history of the unfolding of complex problematics of
a planetary condition through established scientific and
humanistic inquiry. Defined as such, the work ...
Memory burns
(José Frantz, 2020)
Among the photograph collections at Mayibuye, especially
from IDAF, are numerous contact sheets. The contact sheet
was part of the toolkit of the photographer in the time of
analogue photography. The contact sheet is ...
An archive of the future
(José Frantz, 2020)
The University of the Western Cape (UWC) recently entered into a partnership with photographer Rashid Lombard to
house his substantial archival collection, which promises to offer
expanded perspectives on the everyday ...
Little Amal
(José Frantz, 2020)
When South Africa celebrated Heritage Day this year, Boschendal Estate in Franschhoek provided an ideal backdrop for the first steps of Little Amal, a three-metre puppet created by the Handspring Puppet Company from South ...
Navigating ethnicity, nationalism and Pan-Africanism – Kimbanguists, identity and colonial borders
(AOSIS, 2021)
The Kimbanguists, whose church is based on the healing and proclamation ministry of
Simon Kimbangu in 1921 in the Belgian Congo, challenge colonially defined borders and
identities in multiple ways. Anticolonialism is ...
Inxeba (The Wound), Queerness and Xhosa Culture
(Taylor & Francis, 2020)
This article focuses on the controversy caused by the release of the film Inxeba (The Wound). Inxeba depicts a complex intersection of rites of passage, masculinities, queerness and the relationships between men in a ...
Insights and current debates on community engagement in higher education institutions: Perspectives on the University of the Western Cape
(SAGE Publications, 2021)
This study investigated the insights and current debates on community engagement in higher education institutions with
specific reference to the University of the Western Cape (UWC) in South Africa. The article argues ...
Africa’s living rivers: Managing for sustainability
(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 ...
Government by grants: The post-pandemic politics of welfare
(Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020)
In April 2020, with South Africa in national lockdown, president Cyril
Ramaphosa announced the Covid-19 relief program on a scale he called
‘historic’. He affirmed that the state would not only reestablish the economy
but ...