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Afrikanische Entwicklungsalternativen: Ubuntu und die Post-Development-Debatte

- Matthews, Sally

Authors: Matthews, Sally
Date: 2018
Language: English
Type: text , article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/142157 , vital:38054 , DOI: 10.3224/peripherie.v38i2.03
Description: In post-development theory, ubuntu is often cited as an example of an “alternative to development”. This article investigates whether ubuntu can play this role and what to think of the demand for alternatives to development in general. In order to do this, the paper fi rst deals with central aspects of postdevelopment theory and the debate about ubuntu. Although the concept fi ts well into a post-development perspective, the attempts to contrast ubuntu with Western ideas and ways of life are often fueled by the desire to rekindle an original, pre-colonial, authentic African philosophy. Yet discourses on Africa are always embedded in Western discourses, so this opposition reproduces precisely those dichotomies it aims to fi ght. More generally, this also holds true for the idea of “alternatives to development”, which postulate an essential opposition to “development”. This, however, denies claims for equal rights and participation at the root of demands for “development”. The struggle for these claims cannot be fought beyond the existing global order. Instead of engaging in romanticizing projections about an Africa beyond “development”, people’s views and needs should be taken as the starting point for the struggle against injustice and inequality.
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Date Issued: 2018

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Shakespeare's Victorian Stage: performing history in the theatre of Charles Kean, Richard W. Schoch: book review

- Wright, Laurence

Authors: Wright, Laurence
Date: 2004
Language: English
Type: text , article
Identifier: vital:7050 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1007393 , http://hdl.handle.net/10520/EJC48030
Description: preprint , This book is a primarily a study of Charles Kean’s productions of Shakespeare’s English chronicle plays at the Princess’s Theatre between 1852 and 1859, a period crucial to the development of ideas of English nationalism. Schoch focuses on these particular stagings as more than drama; as performances of nineteenth century theories of history and historical representation. His project operates under the aegis of the so-called ‘linguistic turn’ in cultural theory, and is suspicious of neo-marxian fundamentalism.
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Date Issued: 2004

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The road forward: a policy statement of the South African Coloured People's Congress, for the consideration of the National Convention of Coloured People

- South African Coloured People's Congress

Authors: South African Coloured People's Congress
Date: 1961
Subjects: Coloured National Convention , Colored people (South Africa) , Civil rights -- South Africa , Apartheid -- South Africa , South Africa -- Race relations -- 20th century , South Africa -- Social conditions -- 1961-1994 , Human rights -- South Africa -- History -- 20th century , South Africa. South African Coloured National Convention , South Africa. South African Coloured People's Congress
Type: Text
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/31266 , vital:23930 , MS 10 807 , This manuscript is held at the Cory Library for Humanities Research at Rhodes University. For further information contact cory@ru.ac.za. The digitisation of this image was made possible through a generous grant received from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation 2014-2017.
Description: A Policy Statement of the South African Coloured People's Congress, for the consideration of the National Convention of Coloured People.
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Date Issued: 1961

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Dungamanzi/stirring waters: Tsonga and Shangaan art from southern Africa, Nessa Leibhammer (Ed.): book reviews

- Simbao, Ruth K

Authors: Simbao, Ruth K
Date: 2008
Language: English
Type: text , article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/147358 , vital:38629 , https://0-hdl.handle.net.wam.seals.ac.za/10520/EJC31053
Description: A woman known as Nkoma We Lwandle (Cow of the Ocean) and a man, Dunga Manzi (Stirring Waters), are remembered as the first Tsonga diviners. Trained by Nzunzu - a powerful water serpent - they were pulled into a lake for a few months and later emerged as influential healers. Such stories (like the one relayed by Dederen of a young girl, Nsatimuni, who also temporarily disappeared into a lake) represent 'death' and 'rebirth', reflecting Arnold van Gennep's (1909) well-known schema of rites de passage: séparation, marge, and agrégation. Separated from daily life, these characters sink into another world where people breathe in water like a foetus in the liquid depths of a womb, evoking impending new birth (p. 171).
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Date Issued: 2008

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The Dassie and the Hunter: A South African Meeting

- Kaschula, Russell H

Authors: Kaschula, Russell H
Date: 2005
Language: English
Type: text , article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/175147 , vital:42547 , https://doi.org/10.4314/tvl.v43i1.29727
Description: This book does not resemble any of Jeff Opland’s previous academic works. There is no similarity in style, and to some extent content. His previous books, namely, Xhosa oral poetry: Aspects of a black South African tradition (Cambridge University Press, 1983), and Xhosa poets and poetry (David Philip, 1998), were written as purely scientific, academic works. The Dassie and the Hunter amounts to a subtle snub of academia and its restrictive rules. Though written by Opland, it is as if he and his research subject, Manisi, have colluded to make this work different and special, in a personal mystical way, disregarding academic etiquette, weaving a more creative, poetic tapestry. This makes the book an interesting read. In style and content, it is neither rigorously academic, solely biographical, nor purely creative. It evades classification. It is individualistic.
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Date Issued: 2005

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Living wage structures, demands and strategies for 1990

- SACCAWU

Authors: SACCAWU
Date: Feb 1990
Subjects: SACCAWU
Language: English
Type: text
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/117943 , vital:34576
Description: The living wage campaign falls under the jurisdiction of the SACCAWU organising and collective bargaining unit. The unit is divided into two sectors, commercial and catering, with co-ordinators for both sectors at national and branch level. The national and branch co-ordinators are responsible for implementing the living wage campaign. Quarterly meetings of all organising and collective bargaining unit co-ordinators are scheduled to be held to monitor and evaluate progress. A national workshop of all negotiators and delegates from the union's negotiating committees was held in January. This workshop carried out planning and formulated strategies on various aspects related to living wage activities and campaigns for this year. Another national workshop is scheduled to be held in November.
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Date Issued: Feb 1990

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