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’n Geskiedenis van Afrikaans as kerktaal: Van altaar tot kansel
(University of Pretoria, 2022)This contribution shines a critical light on the representation of Afrikaans as a language of the Church in external histories about the development and advancement of the language, inclusive histories particularly. It ... -
Nagjakkals, Hendrik Januarie
(University of Pretoria, 2008)Hendrik Januarie se debuutbundel Pro rata wat in 1989 by Perskor verskyn het, gee reeds 'n aanduiding van hierdie digter se vermoë om indrukke - onder andere van die natuur, landskappe, vergankliklikheid en die sikliese ... -
Namibia’s moment: youth and urban land activism
(Taylor & Francis, 2016)A few months short of the 25th anniversary of independence from South Africa in March 1990 Namibia reached her Fanonian moment. As Achille Mbembe has explained this term with regard to the South African student movements ... -
Narrating the past: Reflections on recent Black Afrikaans writing
(Tydskrif vir Letterkunde Association, 2018)A return to the past has been a dominant feature of recent Afrikaans writing. This is evident in the many novels re-visiting the Anglo-Boer War or recounting incidents from the apartheid past. The approaches include the ... -
Narrative and personhood: The quest for triad community development
(Pieter de Waal Neethling Trust, 2020)This article sets out a Christian theological anthropology for community development. This critical engagement with traditional and doctrinal forms of Christian theological anthropology will analyse two contrasting ... -
Narratives of HIV disclosure and masculinity in a South African village
(Routledge, 2012)This paper describes men’s experiences of disclosing their HIV status, arguing thatdisclosure restored their social respect, which was previously undermined by an illnessfrom AIDS. Results are from a 14-month ... -
Narratives of transactional sex on a university campus
(Taylor & Francis, 2012)Given the imperatives of HIV and gender equality, South African researchers have foregrounded transactional sex as a common practice that contributes to unsafe and inequitable sexual practices. This paper presents findings ... -
Nationalism and exile in an age of solidarity: Frelimo–ZANU relations in Mozambique (1975–1980)
(Taylor & Francis, 2017)This article contributes to our knowledge on the intricate relations between host governments and liberation movements and on the workings of transnational military partnerships in the anticolonial struggles of the 1970s, ... -
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 ... -
Naturalised modal epistemology and quasirealism
(South African Journal of Philosophy,, 2021)Given quasi-realism, the claim is that any attempt to naturalise modal epistemology would leave out absolute necessity. The reason, according to Simon Blackburn, is that we cannot offer an empirical psychological explanation ... -
The nature and context of Kaaps: a contemporary, past and future perspective
(University of the Western Cape, 2016)In this contribution, which serves as orientation for this special edition, the accent falls chiefly on the contemporary manifestation of Kaaps as colloquial variety of Afrikaans, but also on its historic roots and the ... -
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 ... -
“Ndiyindoda” [I am a man]: theorising Xhosa masculinity
(Taylor & Francis, 2016)Masculinity studies in South Africa depend on Western gender theories to frame research questions and fieldwork. This article argues that such theories offer a limited understanding of Xhosa constructions of masculinity. ... -
“Ndiyindoda” [I am a man]: Theorising Xhosa masculinity
(Taylor and Francis Group, 2016)Masculinity studies in South Africa depend on Western gender theories to frame research questions and fieldwork. This article argues that such theories offer a limited understanding of Xhosa ... -
The necessity of natural theology? In conversation with John Calvin on the human senses
(Stellenbosch University, 2011)This contribution explores John Calvin's position on natural theology. The point of departure is not so much the much discussed notions of a sensus divinitatis or of the semen religionis, but the role played by the human ... -
Negotiating race and belonging in a post-apartheid South Africa: Bernadette’s stories
(Kings College, Univ. of London, 2014)Although apartheid officially ended in 1994, race as a primary marker of identity has continued to permeate many aspects of private and public life in a post-apartheid South Africa. This paper explores how race is ... -
Negotiating race in post-apartheid South Africa: Bernadette’s stories
(De Gruyter, 2018)Contemporary scholarship on race investigates how racism is deeply embedded in everyday norms and practices in ways which subtly, even unwittingly, serve to reproduce white domination. In South Africa, like many other ... -
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, ... -
“Net domastrant vir spite”: grepe uit die lewensgeskiedenis van S.V. Petersen
(Stellenbosch University, 2012)“Net domastrant vir spite”: Moments in the life history of S.V. Petersen Relatively little is known about the life story of the Afrikaans poet S.V. Petersen. The entries in literary histories concentrate on his literary ... -
New imperatives for librarianship in Africa
(Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015)Africa, in colonial times regarded as the “Dark Continent,” faces many challenges, whether infrastructural, cultural, or political. Despite these challenges, countries on the continent cannot afford to be complacent. The ...
