Who Is an African? Hewitt, Roderick R; Kaunda, Chammah J; Murphree, Marshall W ...
2018
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This book is an in-depth conversation and study about issues of African identity in South Africa. It aims to inform policy development and change in the role of race and ethnic identity within the ..."rainbow" configuration of nation building.
This celebratory volume tells the story of the late Russel Hayman Botman who died suddenly early in his second term as Rector and Vice-Chancellor of Stellenbosch University. Botman’s story is told ...from his earliest childhood years until his last day as rector. The nature of tributes and celebratory volumes is that it can never be exhaustive. It tells a rich story from limited perspectives. It, however, serves as invitation, stimulus and inspiration to others connected to Botman to also tell their stories about his story.
This anthology presents the work of twenty-four young Spoken Word poets from South Africa, with a sprinkling of guests from the United States, Britain and Australia.The experience of black youth in ...societies polarized by racism, inequality and gender violence whilst, at the same time, struggling to come to terms with love, sex and all the other basic needs of young people makes for fascinating reading. The inventive graphic layout is a fine addition to a stand out volume.Home is Where the Mic Is was conceived as a collaboration with 'Word n Sound', a popular Johannesburg Spoken Word platform. The intention was to give hitherto only 'stage' poets an opportunity to test their work on the 'page' and confound the Eurocentric critics of the new wave of performance poetry who decry its energy and breaking down of artificial definitions of poetry. This is South African poetry standing on it's own two feet!
Although we should acknowledge the fragility of memory, we should nevertheless affirm the remarkable ability of memory to reform and transform our identity. Our memories and ways of remembering are, ...however, often marked by trauma and violence. Memory, therefore, not merely reforms; it too is in need of reformation, redemption and transformation. With this emphasis in mind, Reforming Memory grapples with the question what a responsible engagement with the past entails, also for Christians and churches associated with the Reformed tradition. The history of Reformed churches in South Africa is, one can argue, a deeply divided and ambivalent one. The same figures are heroes to some and villains to others; historic events are deeply ambiguous and conflicting views surround different discourses. Yet the histories, and perhaps futures, of these churches and traditions are inextricably interwoven. Reforming Memory fundamentally combines an interest in the notion of “memory" with an interest in (South African) Reformed theology and history. Central is the question: how should we remember and represent the past responsibly? The essays collected in this book engage in different ways with this question, attending in the process to some episodes in the history of the Dutch Reformed Church, some influential Reformed theologians, and some important Reformed practices and confessional documents.
This book makes an important original conceptual and theoretical contribution to our understanding of modern state development, the role of the state, and the South African transition to democracy. ...Its focus on related concepts such as state capacity, political trust and tolerance adds to insights on the dynamics of political and democratic transitions. Furthermore, the selected focus areas as well as the comparative approach add new insights into the peculiarities of the South African transition, state development, state capacity and state institutions. Its focus on societal dynamics and state-society relations is a significant contribution.
This book explores the impacts of HIV/AIDS and neoliberal globalization on the occupational health of public sector hospital nurses in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. The story of South African public ...sector nurses provides multiple perspectives on the HIV/AIDS epidemic-for a workforce that played a role in the struggle against apartheid, women who deal with the burden of HIV/AIDS care at work and in the community, and a constituency of the new South African democracy that is working on the frontlines of the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Through case studies of three provincial hospitals in KwaZulu-Natal, set against a historical backdrop, this book tells the story of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the post-apartheid period.
Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Understanding a Public Health Crisis from a Work Environment Perspective Introduces how the research came about through the author's interest in HIV/AIDS and the impacts of neoliberal globalization on health care workers.
Chapter 1. Globalization and Health in sub-Saharan Africa Describes how the post-colonial experience in the 1970s, economic crisis, and subsequent structural adjustment policies had devastating impacts on health and health care systems.
Chapter 2. Neoliberalism in Postapartheid South Africa and the HIV/AIDS Epidemic Describes how the African National Congress government adopted neoliberal macroeconomic policy and failed to address the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the early years of South African independence.
Chapter 3. The Work Environment of Nurses Explores the historical and current work environment of nurses in the context of 'brain drain', labor migration, and the global nursing shortage.
Chapter 4. Case Study Setting: Three Public Hospitals In KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa Introduces the 3 KZN provincial hospitals that are the subject of this study; uses interviews with managers and administrators to explore the challenges faced in 3 disparate settings.
Chapter 5. Staffing, Occupational Health, and HIV/AIDS Uses interviews with managers and administrators to explore staffing, occupational health procedures and programs, and the impacts of HIV/AIDS in 3 provincial KZN hospitals.
Chapter 6. Nurses Speak Through interviews, nurses explain their views on workplace health and safety, HIV/AIDS, and government health policies.
Chapter 7. Discussion—Breathing Life into Policy: Toward a Labor/Work Environment Perspective on a Global Public Health Crisis This concluding discussion argues that it will not be possible to meet the needs of poor people living with HIV/AIDS unless attention is paid to the work environment of frontline caregivers.
Appendix: Group Interview Results Summary
References
Index
Popular Afrikaans music artists have done well in post-apartheid South Africa and enjoy the enthusiastic support of loyal fans. This support is fuelled by a complex set of emotions linked to “being ...Afrikaans" in a culturally pluralistic society. In On Record, van der Merwe investigates the interplay between popular music and the unfolding of Afrikaans culture politics from the start of the twentieth century to the present. It includes a search for the earliest recorded Afrikaans songs and documents subsequent phases of music development that reflect the agency of ordinary individuals - artists and listeners - against a background of fundamental societal and political change. It regards both the music mainstream and the alternative, and reveals, among other things, historical cases of compliance and resistance regarding the master narrative of Afrikaner nationalist ideology, the attempts by cultural entrepreneurs to establish authority over popular Afrikaans culture, class tension, lasting racial exclusivity, protest and censorship, and the post-apartheid invocation of Afrikaner nostalgia and white victimhood. Ultimately, On Record provides an uninterrupted account, and a critique, of the entire history of recorded popular Afrikaans music up to the present.
Universities sponsored by Christian churches are a neglected but important part of private higher education everywhere. Christian higher education is rapidly expanding in Africa particularly. This ...article discusses the nature of expansion as well as the challenges facing Christian higher education worldwide. (HoF/text adopted).
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