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Published: 15 June 2009
...This chapter draws on historical and ethnographic material from the South African province of KwaZulu-Natal to show how economic changes have shaped and reshaped the negotiation of affect and exchange. It reviews the changing ways in which men have “provided love” in South Africa as love became...
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Published: 27 December 2013
...This chapter turns to the emotional politics of justice, reconciliation, and social repair. With an empirical focus on Rwanda and, to a lesser extent, South Africa, the chapter treats juridical and quasi-juridical institutions as social rituals that both respond to and engender powerful emotions...
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Published: 06 December 2022
...This chapter starts with the toppling of the Rhodes monument in 2015 at the University of Cape Town in South Africa. As the chapter argues, the need and desire for more radical, action-oriented forms of critique has generated and (re)fueled a vibrant decolonial agenda that combines previous...
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Published: 25 November 2022
...This chapter focuses on South Africa, which is the main migrant-receiving country within the Southern African Development Community (SADC) and a region associated with a high communicable disease burden and historical and contemporary population movements. Long associated with various forms...
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Published: 21 July 2015
...This essay documents the struggle for recognition of Muslim marriages in South Africa. Amien examines how legal reform efforts of Muslim communities diverge from the formal rights-based jurisprudence developed by the South African Constitutional Court. apartheid Christian values colonialism...
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Published: 04 September 2015
... Cameroon corporate social responsibility CSR cont economic rights doctrine of globalization Slaughter Anne Marie social trust concept of South Africa transgovernmental order Annan Kofi corporations Hele Pierre Mabudafhasi Rejoice antiapartheid struggle in South Africa environmental concerns...
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Published: 01 January 2008
... destinations for labor migration in South Africa throughout the war. This chapter argues that the war-time migration decision making of Machazians was responsive to concerns over the preservation and renegotiation of social relations and the pursuit of key life projects such as marriage and raising children...
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Published: 08 March 2018
...In chapter three, Berry analyzes economic geography as a key factor behind the variable power of chiefs. Warning against too simple an attribution of the return of chiefship to the rise of neoliberalism, the author examines the cases of Ghana and South Africa with a view to accounting...
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Published: 07 March 2017
...Map 1. South Africa before 1994. By Molly O’Halloran. Map 2. Palestine/Israel. By Molly O’Halloran. Map 3. South Africa after 1994. By Molly O’Halloran. Map 4. The West Bank after Oslo. By Molly O’Halloran. Based on B’Tselem, “The West Bank: Settlements and the Separation...
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Published: 23 April 2014
... Desmond forgiveness African National Congress ANC de Kock Eugene Mlangeni Sepati Wilson Richard widows status in South Africa citizenship violence mass Nuremberg Trials Adolf Eichmann Hannah Arendt South Africa Truth and Reconciliation Victim testimony Antjie Krog, an Afrikaner journalist...
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Published: 15 April 2007
...This chapter addresses a different approach to measuring the impact of globalization on incomes in South Africa. South Africa quickly implemented a policy of macroeconomic stabilization to reassure the international financial community. It is shown that the return to speaking English increased...
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Published: 08 May 2019
... and practices of postcolonial science. iThemba instantiated a particular vision of science for a democratic South Africa, and the chapter argues that ideas about what South African science should be intertwined with ideas about what South African society should be. The name “iThemba” means “hope...
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Published: 24 October 2023
...This chapter follows the appropriate technology concept as it was implemented in the service of liberation struggles in Zimbabwe and apartheid South Africa in the 1980s. Insulated from many foreign aid programs for much of the 1970s due to the civil war in Zimbabwe and the apartheid regime in South...
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Published: 24 October 2023
...The final chapter reflects on how PATH’s model has transformed the twenty-first century’s tech-driven global philanthropy. 1995 was not only the beginning of the post-apartheid era in South Africa, but was also the year that PATH was approached by Bill Gates, Sr. to serve as a model for the global...
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Published: 23 April 2018
... to Oliver Tambo, acting president of the ANC, in dealing with ANC’s own use of torture in its fight against Apartheid. Sachs then describes the development of his own thinking about torture after becoming a justice of the Constitutional Court of South Africa in the post-Apartheid era. Sachs argues...
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Published: 23 September 2016
...This paper uses national household survey data to examine changes in real per capita incomes in South Africa between 1993 and 2008; the start and the end of the first fifteen years of post-apartheid South Africa. These data show an increase in average per capita real incomes across the distribution...
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Published: 15 September 2010
...This chapter briefly sketches the mediascape of South Africa prior to the first fence post—television's introduction. By examining the positions of political parties and the resistance movements regarding television, it shows how Afrikaner political identifications imbued television with qualities...
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Published online: 21 March 2013
Published in print: 15 September 2010
...During the worst years of apartheid, the most popular show on television in South Africa—among both Black and White South Africans—was The Cosby Show. Why did people living under a system built on the idea that Black people were inferior and threatening flock to a show...
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Published online: 24 January 2019
Published in print: 05 June 2018
...Living Politics in South Africa’s Urban Shacklands examines liberal governance and political mobilization through the elements of fire, water, air, and land. Tracking everyday practices and interactions between poor residents and state agents in South Africa’s shack settlements, the author...
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Published online: 23 January 2014
Published in print: 04 October 2013
... that one of the primary ways in which this ‘postcolonial paradox’ is managed is through the re-signification of the tropes of ‘tradition’ and ‘modernity’ – both within the public sphere and in the discourses and ideologies of people living with HIV/AIDS. The book traces the politics of AIDS in South Africa...