The Challenge of Genadendal
The Challenge of Genadendal

Author: Hannetjie Du Preez

Publisher: IOS Press

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 128

ISBN-13: 1586039687

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Genadendal is blessed with a rich tangible and intangible heritage. It boasts of vernacular architecture, musical traditions and language and a long tradition of humanitarian efforts and political struggle. It is with pleasure that we learned about the completion of the restoration project due to the assistance of the Dutch Government. The improvements that were effected provided the inhabitants with infrastructure to improve the quality of their lives.

Land Reform in South Africa
Land Reform in South Africa

Author: Brent McCusker

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2015-11-05

Total Pages: 225

ISBN-13: 1442207183

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This thoughtful book explores the history and ongoing dilemmas of land use and land reform in South Africa. Including both theoretical and applied examples of the evolution of South Africa’s current geography of land use, the authors provide a succinct overview of land reform and evaluate the range of policies conceived over time to redress the country’s stark racial land imbalance. Drawing on compelling case studies from across South Africa, they illustrate not only the progress of land reform, but also how reforms fit within the larger historical context of racialized land use. This is the first book of its kind to fully apply geographical theory to the case of South African land reform. Rather than rely on one-dimensional technicist explanations to discuss the shortcomings of the country’s land reform program, this rich study places it in the context of bitter battles between groups seeking to exploit land policies for their own benefit.

The Sonnets of Thomas Pringle
The Sonnets of Thomas Pringle

Author: Patrick Lenahan

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2023-07-17

Total Pages: 333

ISBN-13: 9004549935

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When the Scottish poet Thomas Pringle emigrated to the Cape Colony in 1820 he voyaged also into a new creative life and an art responsive to his colonial home, “sterner verse” for “darker scenes”. Accompanying him to the Cape, the sonnet became his most consistent choice for capturing his experiences and convictions, his personal crises and the greater trauma of colonial appropriation and racial oppression. In this study his unique contribution to the Romantic-era sonnet is for the first time given its full due, through readings that are as attentive to form and formal agency as to the cultural, social and historical conditions in which they are enmeshed. Moving beyond colonial theory to consider issues of literary migration, this illuminating work shows how Pringle effectively opened up a radical conversation between the habitual modes of perception and response of British Romanticism and his new, southern world.

Reconnecting the City
Reconnecting the City

Author: Francesco Bandarin

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2014-12-15

Total Pages: 376

ISBN-13: 1118383982

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Historic Urban Landscape is a new approach to urban heritage management, promoted by UNESCO, and currently one of the most debated issues in the international preservation community. However, few conservation practitioners have a clear understanding of what it entails, and more importantly, what it can achieve. Examples drawn from urban heritage sites worldwide – from Timbuktu to Liverpool Richly illustrated with colour photographs Addresses key issues and best practice for urban conservation

Jan Paerl, a Khoikhoi in Cape Colonial Society, 1761-1851
Jan Paerl, a Khoikhoi in Cape Colonial Society, 1761-1851

Author: Russel Stafford Viljoen

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 233

ISBN-13: 9004150935

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In this biography of the Khoikhoi Jan Paerl (1761-1851) light is being shed on a new form of resistance against colonial domination in Cape society. It emphasizes Khoikhoi colonial encounters and incorporates themes such as millenarian beliefs, identities, master-servant relations, indentured labour and the appropriation of mission Christianity.

Sociopolitical Changes and the Challenge to Christianity in South Africa
Sociopolitical Changes and the Challenge to Christianity in South Africa

Author: University of South Africa. Research Institute for Theology and Religion. Symposium

Publisher:

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 128

ISBN-13:

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This collection of papers was presented at the eighteenth symposium of the Research Institute for Theology and Religion (Unisa) in 1994. The transition to a full democracy has been something of a bloodless revolution in South Africa, but a post- apartheid society can only remain bloodless if it is complemented by many smaller revolutions. These smaller revolutions are mainly concerned with the reconstruction process which takes place not only on a physical level, but also has to do with changed attitudes and a reconstruction of minds. The contributions in this book deal with very real issues like societal trends, economic and legal realities and the psychological effects of change on people. This book explores the problems and the opportunities of the challenge to Christianity in South Africa that sociopolitical change poses.