Jezero Kariba umjetno je jezero stvoreno na rijeci Zambezi u Africi u svrhu proizvodnje električne energije. Izgradnja brane kojom su pregrađeni brzaci u tjesnacu Kariba trajala je četiri godine, od ...1955. do 1958. godine, a jezero se punilo vodom sve do 1963. godine. Danas obuhvaća oko 5 500 km2 i površinom je četvrto najveće umjetno jezero na svijetu, dok je zapremninom od oko 185 km3 najveće. Jezero je stvoreno u vrijeme kad prava domorodačkog stanovništva u kolonijama nisu bila od velikog značaja, a upravljanje okolišem bilo je u svojim začecima. U isto vrijeme bio je to jedan od najopsežnijih projekata ikada poduzetih od strane čovjeka – prije samog dovršenja 128 m visokog zida brane bilo je potrebno preseliti oko 60 000 pripadnika naroda Tonga, a potapanjem plodne riječne doline uništen je sav biljni svijet i pošteđen samo djelić životinjskog.
Raspravlja se o taksonomskim značajkama roda Cosmina Robineau-
Desvoidy i ponovno opisuju vrste C. cuprina Bigot i C. punctulata (Wiedemann). Kao nove vrste opisane su C. albertinella n. sp. i C. ...bogoriella n. sp.
Iz višestoljetne migracije Hrvata i njihova razmještaja na nove prostore gotovo diljem svijeta, nezaobilazan je i afrički kontinent, posebice njegov krajnji jug – današnja Južnoafrička Republika. I ...ovdje, kao i u mnogim hrvatskim iseljeničkim kolonijama, useljavanje nije bilo masovno i organizirano, kao primjerice ono na američkim kontinentima, Australiji i Novom Zelandu, već pojedinačno, spontano ili manje grupno. Dolazilo se na poziv i uz potporu ranije doseljenog bližeg ili daljnjeg rođaka, svojte, prijatelja ili dobronamjerna znanca. Udaljenost i po nekoliko tisuća kilometara (primjerice Cape Town – Pretorija) nije ih od samih početaka razdvajala u kontaktima i, što je najvažnije, u materijalnoj i moralnoj uzajamnosti, bilo individualno, bilo preko organiziranih potpornih udruga koje sustavno možemo pratiti sve tamo od početka 20. stoljeća pa do naših dana; nekoć bijahu jače i mnogobrojnije, danas su slabije i malobrojnije. Od šezdesetih godina prošlog stoljeća, međutim, predvodnik svih dotadašnjih udruga i humanitarnih društava postaje Hrvatska katolička zajednica, revni čuvar vjerskoga i kulturnog života Hrvata Južne Afrike, što je i osnovna poruka ovoga članka u kojemu se nastoji priopćiti njezin nastanak, razvitak i sadašnjost.
South African London studies literary responses to London by exiled and émigré South Africans between 1948 and 2005 and traces the role London played in the development of South African letters.
Since the 1600s, travelers, scientists, and doctors have claimed that “hermaphroditism” and intersex are disproportionately common among black South Africans. In Envisioning African Intersex Amanda ...Lock Swarr debunks this claim by interrogating contemporary intersex medicine and demonstrating its indivisibility from colonial ideologies and scientific racism. Tracing the history of racialized research that underpins medical and scientific premises of gendered bodies, Swarr analyzes decolonial actions by intersex South Africans from the 1990s to the present, centering the work of organizers such as Sally Gross, the first openly intersex activist in Africa and a global pioneer of intersex legislation. Swarr also explores African social media activism that advocates for intersex justice and challenges the mistreatment of South African Olympian Caster Semenya. Throughout, Swarr shows how activists displace doctors’ impositions to fashion self-representation. By unseating colonial visions of gender, intersex South Africans are actively disrupting medical violence, decolonizing gender binaries, and inciting policy changes.
All author royalties from Envisioning African Intersex will be donated to Intersex South Africa.
Wayward Feeling asks what contemporary audio-visual
culture and aesthetic activisms might tell us about the affective
afterlives of historical injustice in post-rainbow South
Africa.
Marriages of Inconvenience: The politics of coalitions in South
Africa is a research-based volume that collates and interprets
lessons that South Africa should take to heart in managing
interparty ...coalitions. It draws from domestic experiences as well
as from case studies on the rest of the African continent and
generic instances further afield. Coalitions in various iterations
have been a part of the South African polity since the attainment
of democracy in 1994. This started, nationally, with a 'grand
coalition' in the form of a Government of National Unity as
mandated in the interim constitution. Coalitions have also found
expression in some of the country's provinces. After the
transition, multiparty governments were sustained at national and
provincial levels either as a matter of necessity due to election
outcomes or for other political considerations. At local government
level, coalitions have been relatively commonplace in South Africa
from the onset of democratically elected municipalities in 2000,
with many situations where no single party attained an absolute
majority. This gained prominence from 2016 when many metropolitan
governments and some large towns became sites of coalition
politics.
Marriages of Inconvenience: The politics of coalitions in
South Africa is a research-based volume that collates and
interprets lessons that South Africa should take to heart in
managing interparty coalitions. It draws from domestic experiences
as well as from case studies on the rest of the African continent
and generic instances further afield.
Coalitions in various iterations have been a part of the South
African polity since the attainment of democracy in 1994. This
started, nationally, with a 'grand coalition' in the form of a
Government of National Unity as mandated in the interim
constitution. Coalitions have also found expression in some of the
country's provinces. After the transition, multiparty governments
were sustained at national and provincial levels either as a matter
of necessity due to election outcomes or for other political
considerations.
At local government level, coalitions have been relatively
commonplace in South Africa from the onset of democratically
elected municipalities in 2000, with many situations where no
single party attained an absolute majority. This gained prominence
from 2016 when many metropolitan governments and some large towns
became sites of coalition politics.
To celebrate Mothertongue's 21st anniversary, Collaborative Conversations weaves together the reflections of a group of artists, scholars and writers who have journeyed with the organisation over the ...last two decades.
