In May 2022, David Dabydeen and Ben Jacob interviewed South African cricketer Keshav Maharaj. Maharaj – South Africa’s most successful spin-bowler since the nation’s readmission to international ...sport in 1991 – is the first descendant of an indentured worker, and only the third Indian South African, to play for South Africa’s cricket team. In the conversation, Mahraj reflects on the legacies of indentureship, being part of South Africa’s post-apartheid generation, his journey to the top of cricket, and his achievements on the international stage.
In 2011, the South African government abolished and amalgamated several poor-performing municipalities to improve service delivery to the people. Modimolle and Mookgophong local municipalities were ...among those that were amalgamated to improve service delivery in the Modimolle-Mookgophong precinct. However, more than a decade after the amalgamation, Modimolle-Mookgophong municipality continues to experience service delivery challenges. Hence, this study examines the factors that lead to poor service delivery in the municipality.
Meu contato por e-mail com o professor Jim Sidanius (também conhecido como James Sidanius) iniciou-se cerca de um ano antes de nos encontrarmos pessoalmente, nos Estados Unidos. Parei em frente ao ...prédio James Hall1 - a construção mais alta nos arredores do Harvard Yard (parte central do campus). Usualmente, é uma teoria associada à Escala de Orientação à Dominância Social (ODS) (Social Dominance Orientation Scale) 4 . Depois de quatorze anos vivendo como refugiado na Suécia, o professor Sidanius retornou aos EUA para uma bolsa de pós-doutorado de dois anos na Universidade Carnegie-Mellon. Sua experiência de ver a mesma coisa, mas diferente, o levou a escrever e desenvolver a Teoria da Dominância Social, porque, embora as coisas tivessem melhorado, as estruturas de relacionamento entre grupos étnicos nos Estados Unidos ainda eram praticamente as mesmas, com os brancos no topo e afro-americanos abaixo.
An award-winning historian and journalist tells the very
human story of apartheid's afterlife, tracing the fates of South
African insurgents, collaborators, and the security police through
the tale ...of the clandestine photo album used to target apartheid's
enemies. From the 1960s until the early 1990s, the South
African security police and counterinsurgency units collected over
7,000 photographs of apartheid's enemies. The political rogue's
gallery was known as the "terrorist album," copies of which were
distributed covertly to police stations throughout the country.
Many who appeared in the album were targeted for surveillance.
Sometimes the security police tried to turn them; sometimes the
goal was elimination. All of the albums were ordered destroyed when
apartheid's violent collapse began. But three copies survived the
memory purge. With full access to one of these surviving albums,
award-winning South African historian and journalist Jacob Dlamini
investigates the story behind these images: their origins, how they
were used, and the lives they changed. Extensive interviews with
former targets and their family members testify to the brutal and
often careless work of the police. Although the police certainly
hunted down resisters, the terrorist album also contains mug shots
of bystanders and even regime supporters. Their inclusion is a
stark reminder that apartheid's guardians were not the efficient,
if morally compromised, law enforcers of legend but rather
blundering agents of racial panic. With particular attentiveness to
the afterlife of apartheid, Dlamini uncovers the stories of former
insurgents disenchanted with today's South Africa, former
collaborators seeking forgiveness, and former security police
reinventing themselves as South Africa's newest export: "security
consultants" serving as mercenaries for Western nations and
multinational corporations. The Terrorist Album is a
brilliant evocation of apartheid's tragic caprice, ultimate
failure, and grim legacy.
La introducción de este libro, escrita por Karina Ochoa Muñoz y María Teresa Garzón Martínez (2019), se posiciona en defensa de la multiplicidad y dice lo siguiente: "Sin embargo, hay que poner de ...manifiesto que en Abya Yala y en los sures globales existen diversas y múltiples producciones críticas de feministas, de mujeres indígenas, afrodescendientes y mestizas racializadas que guardan un carácter descolonial o anticolonial, pero no se constriñen exclusivamente al debate sobre la imposición colonial del género, por lo que es difícil hablar de 'un' solo camino de reflexión, o incluso de 'un' solo 'feminismo descolonial' " (6). La recuperación de voces de mujeres indígenas y afro silenciadas por la historia es otro de los grandes aportes del libro, así como las rebeliones de mujeres indígenas, como lo fue Bartolina Sisa, aymara, quien en 1780 encabezó una de las más importantes rebeliones contra el poder colonial. Hoy su legado anticolonial está presente en la organización que lleva su nombre, al igual que el de Anacaona, Cacique de Jaragua, que peleó en la Isla Española, y el de Guimar, mujer afrovenezolana que luchó en la primera rebelión de esclavos en 1552, así como otras voces que fueron sofocadas por el peso colonial y patriarcal de la historia. También existe la posibilidad de pensar juntas en una metodología que sea lo que en un reciente texto definí como "una poética de la Relacion socio-afectiva entre mujeres, que apuesta por una etnografía postheroica crítica del androcentrismo" (Bidaseca, 2019), por una producción coral, por lo que María Patricia Pérez Moreno llamó una "o'tanil" o "corazón", lugar donde nace lo que hacemos, explica, entre los mayas tseltales de Bachajón.
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