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Author: Anne V. T. Whyte
Publisher: IDRC
Published: 2014-05-14
Total Pages: 279
ISBN-13: 1552502503
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBacked by South Africa's democratic movement, and with the support of IDRC, the International Mission on Environmental Policy focuses on the critical role that environmental sustainability must play in nation buildingand economic development. It proposes policy directions that move away from the unbridled squandering of resources.
Author: David Thelen
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2015-06-01
Total Pages: 202
ISBN-13: 0253017904
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOnce a thriving, multiracial community, the Sophiatown suburb of Johannesburg was home to many famous artists, musicians, and poets. It was also a place where residential apartheid was first put into practice with forced removals, buildings bulldozed, and the construction of new, cheap housing for white public employees. David Thelen and Karie L. Morgan facilitate conversations among today's Sophiatown residents about how they share spaces, experiences, and values to raise and educate their children, earn a living, overcome crime, and shape their community for the good of all. As residents reflect on the past and the challenges they face in the future, they begin to work together to create a rich, diverse, safe, and welcoming post-Mandela South Africa.
Author: Dr Heather Deegan
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2005-08-04
Total Pages: 243
ISBN-13: 1135361363
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA study of South African political reform within a broad framework of global patterns of democratization. The text includes interviews with members of the ANC, the Inkartha Freedom Party, the National Party and township representatives.
Author: Nelson Mandela
Publisher: IDRC
Published: 2014-05-14
Total Pages: 104
ISBN-13: 1552502481
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEconomic research, economic analysis, policy making, training, capacity building, institution building, foreign aid, mission reports.
Author: James Fowkes
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2016-12-15
Total Pages: 415
ISBN-13: 1107124093
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA revisionary account of the South African Constitutional Court, its working method and the neglected political underpinnings of its success.
Author: Carolyn Holmes
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 2020-10-13
Total Pages: 265
ISBN-13: 0472127179
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNation-building imperatives compel citizens to focus on what makes them similar and what binds them together, forgetting what makes them different. Democratic institution building, on the other hand, requires fostering opposition through conducting multiparty elections and encouraging debate. Leaders of democratic factions, like parties or interest groups, can consolidate their power by emphasizing difference. But when held in tension, these two impulses—toward remembering difference and forgetting it, between focusing on unity and encouraging division—are mutually constitutive of sustainable democracy. Based on ethnographic and interview-based fieldwork conducted in 2012–13, The Black and White Rainbow: Reconciliation, Opposition, and Nation-Building in Democratic South Africa explores various themes of nation- and democracy-building, including the emotional and banal content of symbols of the post-apartheid state, the ways that gender and race condition nascent nationalism, the public performance of nationalism and other group-based identities, integration and sharing of space, language diversity, and the role of democratic functioning including party politics and modes of opposition. Each of these thematic chapters aims to explicate a feature of the multifaceted nature of identity-building, and link the South African case to broader literatures on both nationalism and democracy.
Author: Jon Orman
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2008-08-27
Total Pages: 207
ISBN-13: 1402088914
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe preamble to the post-apartheid South African constitution states that ‘South Africa belongs to all who live in it, united in our diversity’ and promises to ‘lay the foundations for a democratic and open society in which government is based on the will of the people and every citizen is equally protected by law’ and to ‘improve the quality of life of all citizens’. This would seem to commit the South African government to, amongst other things, the implementation of policies aimed at fostering a common sense of South African national identity, at societal dev- opment and at reducing of levels of social inequality. However, in the period of more than a decade that has now elapsed since the end of apartheid, there has been widespread discontent with regard to the degree of progress made in connection with the realisation of these constitutional aspirations. The ‘limits to liberation’ in the post-apartheid era has been a theme of much recent research in the ?elds of sociology and political theory (e. g. Luckham, 1998; Robins, 2005a). Linguists have also paid considerable attention to the South African situation with the realisation that many of the factors that have prevented, and are continuing to prevent, effective progress towards the achievement of these constitutional goals are linguistic in their origin.
Author: Marion Keim
Publisher: Meyer & Meyer Verlag
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13: 1841260991
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMarion Keim maintains that through properly organized sport South Africans can learn to play together with respect, learn to all be on the same team and in the process contribute to the building of a new South Africa.
Author: Katherine Elizabeth Mack
Publisher: Penn State Press
Published: 2015-06-18
Total Pages: 250
ISBN-13: 0271066385
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSouth Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) hearings can be considered one of the most significant rhetorical events of the late twentieth century. The TRC called language into action, tasking it with promoting understanding among a divided people and facilitating the construction of South Africa’s new democracy. Other books on the TRC and deliberative rhetoric in contemporary South Africa emphasize the achievement of reconciliation during and in the immediate aftermath of the transition from apartheid. From Apartheid to Democracy, in contrast, considers the varied, complex, and enduring effects of the Commission’s rhetorical wager. It is the first book-length study to analyze the TRC through such a lens. Katherine Elizabeth Mack focuses on the dissension and negotiations over difference provoked by the Commission’s process, especially its public airing of victims’ and perpetrators’ truths. She tracks agonistic deliberation (evidenced in the TRC’s public hearings) into works of fiction and photography that extend and challenge the Commission’s assumptions about truth, healing, and reconciliation. Ultimately, Mack demonstrates that while the TRC may not have achieved all of its political goals, its very existence generated valuable deliberation within and beyond its official process.
Author: Barbara A. Lehman
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2014-10-01
Total Pages: 321
ISBN-13: 1476617163
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis collection of essays analyzes the work of 29 authors and illustrators. South African children's and youth literature has a long history. The country is the most prolific publisher of children's books on the continent, producing perhaps the highest quality literature in Africa. Its traditions resonate within the larger world of children's literature but are solidly grounded in African myth and archetypes. The African diaspora in the U.S. and elsewhere have stories rooted in these oral traditions. Much has changed in South African literature for children since the 1994 transformation of the country. A field once dominated by all white and mostly female writers and illustrators has diversified, adding many new voices.
