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Beyond black and white: black solidarity in post-apartheid South Africa

- Majavu, Phumlani

Authors: Majavu, Phumlani
Date: 2014
Subjects: Black nationalism -- South Africa , Race relations -- South Africa , South Africa -- Politics and government -- 21st century
Language: English
Type: Thesis , Masters , MA
Identifier: vital:2887 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1016359
Description: Almost 20 years after the white Nationalist government was voted out, some black South Africans believe that black solidarity is still necessary in South Africa. These people argue that since post-apartheid South Africa is still marred with racial injustice, it makes sense for blacks to advocate for black solidarity. Although it is true that black solidarity played an important role in the struggle against apartheid, in this thesis I argue that the struggle against current forms of racial injustice does not necessarily require black solidarity. This is not to deny the prevailing racialized oppression in the post-apartheid era, nor to deny the importance of black solidarity in the past; rather the point I am making is that the current form of racial oppression is somewhat different from the one before 1994. Hence I argue in this thesis that the current form of racial oppression requires us to do certain things differently. Doing things differently means improving upon the strategies of the past. For this to happen, I argue that every human being who believes in and is committed to racial justice ought to be included in the struggle for justice. Change, after all, is brought about when committed human beings work together for liberation and justice.
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Date Issued: 2014

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Chieftainship succession and gender equality in Lesotho: negotiating the right to equality in a jungle of pluralism

- Juma, Laurence

Authors: Juma, Laurence
Date: 2012
Language: English
Type: text , article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/127067 , vital:35951 , https://heinonline.org/HOL/Page?handle=hein.journals/tjwl22amp;div=11amp;g_sent=1amp;casa_token=amp;collection=journals
Description: Women constitute about 51% of Lesotho's population 1 and enjoy a higher literacy rate than men. 2 They are also the backbone of a society that for several hundreds of years provided male labor to South Africa's farms and gold mines.3 However, Basotho women are generally excluded from mainstream politics and are discriminated against in almost all spheres of socioeconomic life. This exclusion, marginalization, and discrimination have been largely blamed on patriarchy and entrenched traditional norms, both of which are sustained by a plural legal system that has seemingly remained insular to developments around the globe. 4
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Date Issued: 2012

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Betwixt and between: exploring the passage of liminal space

- Key, Michelle

Authors: Key, Michelle
Date: 2005
Subjects: Bourgeois, Louis, 1911- Spider , Art and anthropology , Art criticism , Liminality
Language: English
Type: Thesis , Masters , MA
Identifier: vital:2406 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1002202 , Bourgeois, Louis, 1911- Spider , Art and anthropology , Art criticism , Liminality
Description: The focus of this thesis is on the liminal space, limen being Latin for threshold. The liminal space is used as a means of figuring and reading artworks that appear to be in a process of becoming and disappearing. A dialectical and reciprocal reading is made of Bourgeois’ “neo-Baroque” artwork Spider (1997) and Michelle Key’s Betwixt-in-Between (2004). Liminality here is discussed within the theoretical framework of several key conceptual concerns, including abjection (as examined principally by Julia Kristeva), Baroque thought (as discussed by Mieke Bal, Gilles Deleuze, Jacques Lacan and Slavoj Žižek) and allegory (as figured primarily by Walter Benjamin and commentators on Benjamin’s writings). What links these concerns are their focus on indeterminacy, instability, and process as opposed to certitude and finitude. The exploration of the inscription of time in space; that is the temporal process, which gives rise to, which produces, the spatial dimension, is attempted in order to make meaning, however provisionally, of what may be argued to destabilise meaning and to consider possibilities for both art-making and interpretation that would engage critically with this instability.
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Date Issued: 2005

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To investigate the effect of a change in hard gelatin capsule supplier on a phenytoin sodium capsule formulation

- Marx, Amor

Authors: Marx, Amor
Date: 2004
Subjects: Capsules (Pharmacy) , Phenytoin
Language: English
Type: Thesis , Masters , MTech (Chemistry)
Identifier: vital:10984 , http://hdl.handle.net/10948/265 , Capsules (Pharmacy) , Phenytoin
Description: Stability studies were undertaken at ambient (25ºC/60%RH) and accelerated conditions (40ºC/75%RH) to determine the effect of changing of hard gelatin capsule supplier on a phenytoin sodium (100 mg) capsule formulation. Three hard gelatin capsule suppliers: RP Scherer (Supplier A), Capsugel (supplier B) and Associated Caps (Supplier C) were used in the study. Capsules were analyzed just after filling of the capsules (T0), after 1 month (T1), after 2 months (T2) and after 3 months (T3) after being stored in securitainers under the above-mentioned conditions. The moisture content of the empty shells as well as the capsule contents were analysed at each time-point. The capsule disintegration time was recorded at each time point. Multi-point dissolution testing was performed at each time point to determine the release of the active substance in each case. Based on the achieved results, the best capsule shell supplier was recommended, and other suggestions were made to improve the capsule formulation.
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Date Issued: 2004

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A cultural magazine - eKapa

- Labour Research Service

Authors: Labour Research Service
Date: 1986
Subjects: LRS
Language: English
Type: text
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/250684 , vital:52038
Description: These are bitter times in our lives. Crossroads have become a fountain of pain from which all are forced to drink. What do the vultures want with us? Our children cry day and night from hunger and the cold, and now, the ever falling rain. You see we have become a symbol. A symbol of defiance and of the courage of all our struggling people. This too is a part of our land, so why must we be moved? Some of the community have sold out for silver. They are now like cochcroaches in sour-milk. The police with all their guns, could not do their business here. I read of Ayanda Silika. He is dead now. The police took him away. They said that he shot a policeman from Pretoria. The police said that they had to do their business early in the morning. Why could they not come in the brightness of the sun, for all to see? Because, we had made this place for us. That is a reason why our houses are burnt and our lives are scattered. Ayanda Solika was 23 when they killed him. In 1976 he was 13 years old when Hector Petersen was killed. Like so many of these young comrades who battle without fear. I get strength from all this. The embers of Soweto 76 and the embers of Crossroads, are part of the same fire. And the Phoenix always rises from the ashes. Tomorrow we will still be here. And those who have gone will come back again. And we will live here like before. And the vultures can come, but those who run will be few. We the many will stand for we are gaining strength. Even now we are building again. Have they not heard our song of our people who fall, like leaves from a tree, but the tree still stands. That is a song of our lives.
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Date Issued: 1986

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The nutritional status of pre-school children in the Amatola Basin

- Fincham, Robert John

Authors: Fincham, Robert John
Date: 1982
Subjects: Nutrition surveys -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape Children, Black -- Nutrition -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape Malnutrition -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape Children -- South Africa -- Nutrition
Language: English
Type: Book , Text
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/2194 , vital:20264 , ISBN 0868100978
Description: This paper reports on a survey into the nutritional levels of young children living in a rural area of central Ciskei. The project was undertaken to advance two independent research initiatives, the one concentrating on nutritional levels of children in the Eastern Cape and Ciskei region, the second focussing on a comprehensive rural development programme in the Amatola Basin. Mr R.J. Fincham, the project leader and author of the paper, has during the last two years published two Working Papers reporting on comparable research projects in the Eastern Cape aimed at assessing health levels of young children. This programme has been undertaken with the close cooperation and help of the South African Department of Health. Sincere appreciation is due to Dr J.D. Krynauw, the Eastern Cape Regional Director, and nurses on his staff who undertook a large part of the fieldwork required by the project. The rural development programme is being executed by the Agricultural and Rural Development Research Institute of the University of Fort Hare in collaboration with residents of the Basin itself. Appreciation is also due to that Institute, to the clinic sisters of the Khomkulu clinic in the Amatola Basin, and to the mothers and other residents of the Basin who cooperated with the research team. , Digitised by Rhodes University Library on behalf of the Institute of Social and Economic Research (ISER)
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Date Issued: 1982

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