Faculty of Arts: Recent submissions
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Living in exile: daily life and international relations at SWAPO’s Kongwa Camp
(Published by History Department, University of the Western Cape, 2011)From 1964, when it was first granted by the Tanzanian government to OAU recognized liberation movements, Kongwa camp has been a key site in southern Africa’s exile history. First SWAPO and FRELIMO, and later the ANC, MPLA ... -
Reading and representing African refugees in New York
(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 South Africa-Angola talks, 1976-1984: a little-known cold war thread
(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 ... -
Rationalizing gukurahundi: cold war and South African foreign relations with Zimbabwe, 1981-1983
(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 ... -
Road to Ghana: Nkrumah, Southern Africa and the eclipse of a decolonizing Africa
(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. ... -
Imagining nation, state, and order in the mid-twentieth century
(Published by History Department, University of the Western Cape, 2011)This essay considers the relationship between the United Nations and the Third World. Using the apartheid debate as a framing device, it explores Indian and African nationalism in the mid-1940s and early 1960s. In focusing ... -
The pregnant man: race, difference and subjectivity in Alan Paton’s Kalahari writing
(Taylor & Francis, co-published with Unisa Press, 2010)In South African imaginative writing and scholarly research, there is currently an extensive and wide-ranging interest in the ‘Bushman’, either as a tragic figure of colonial history, as a contested site of misrepresentation, ... -
A native of nowhere: the life of South African journalist Nat Nakasa, 1937-1965
(Published by History Department, University of the Western Cape, 2011)This article examines the life and work of South African journalist Nat Nakasa (1937-1965), a writer for the popular news magazine Drum, the first black columnist for the Johannesburg newspaper the Rand Daily Mail, and ... -
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 ... -
Alan Paton’s sublime: race, landscape and the transcendence of the liberal imagination
(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 ... -
Wilhelm Bleek and the Khoisan imagination: a study of censorship, genocide and colonial science
(Taylor & Francis Group, 2012)In 1864, Wilhelm Bleek published a collection of Khoi narratives titled Reynard the Fox in South Africa, or Hottentot Fables and Tales. This article critically examines this foundational event in South African literary ... -
Food security in Southern African cities: the place of urban agriculture
(Sage Publications, 2011)Several decades of research on ‘urban agriculture’ have led to markedly different conclusions about the actual and potential role of household food production in African cities. In the context of rapid urbanization, urban ... -
Neoliberalism, regime rurvival, and the environment: economic reform and agricultural transformation in Zimbabwe in the 1990s
(Taylor & Francis, 2001)Economic reform in Zimbabwe under the auspices of the Bank World Bank and IMF began in 1991. The first phase of program, called structural economic adjustment program (ESAP ) lasted from 1991 to 1996. The second phase, ... -
“Modern prophets, produce a new bible”: Christianity, Africanness and the poetry of Nontsizi Mgqwetho
(Southern African Literature and Culture Centre, UKZN, 2008)In this article I consider how one might approach the apparently singular figure of Nontsizi Mgqwetho, a Xhosa woman who produced an extraordinary series of Christian izibongo in newspapers in the 1920s: through what ... -
Risk and protective factors to male interpersonal violence: views of some male university students
(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 ... -
Intimate partner violence during pregnancy in Zimbabwe: across-sectional study of prevalence, predictors and associations with HIV
(Public Library of Science, 2013)objective To describe the occurrence, dynamics and predictors of intimate partner violence (IPV) during pregnancy, including links with HIV, in urban Zimbabwe. methods A cross-sectional survey of 2042 post-natal women ... -
“It’s not a simple thing, co-publishing”: challenges of co-authorship between supervisors and students in South African higher educational contexts
(UNISA Press, 2013)Knowledge production in South Africa remains framed by the legacies of apartheid. Developing emerging authors and local knowledges through co-authorship between supervisors and post graduate students is an important ... -
Notes towards a history of Khoi literature
(Taylor & Francis, 2011)This article puts forward a revisionist history of Khoi literature, and also presents a number of translated Khoi narratives that have not been available in English before. Compared to the large volume of Bushman literature ... -
Late style in J.M. Coetzee's Diary of a Bad Year
(Taylor & Francis (Routledge), 2010)J.M. Coetzee’s post-millennial writing has been marked by new forms of inventiveness, formal risk-taking and narrative experimentation that have blurred the boundaries between fiction, autobiography and social commentary. ... -
Pregnant girls and young parents in South African schools
(UNISA Press, 2008)Since the promulgation of the South African Schools Act in 1 996, it has become illegal to exclude pregnant girls from school. Influenced by feminist research, policy has sought to assist pregnant girls and young parents ...