- Title
- Social cohesion: is it possible in a diverse society?
- Creator
- Pauw, H C
- Subject
- Social interaction -- South Africa
- Subject
- South Africa -- Social conditions
- Subject
- f-sa
- Type
- text
- Type
- Lectures
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10948/21914
- Identifier
- vital:29801
- Description
- The Faculty of Arts has been requested to drive one of the NMMU research themes, namely "Social cohesion". Being a memeber of the Faculty of Arts and from the School of Governance and Social Sciences I have decided to provide some input regarding this theme. South Africa experienced violent xenophobic attacks on non-South African Africans during May 2008. In a report in The Times (17 June 2008) under the title Mandela calls for 'Social cohesion', former president Nelson Mandela urged the youth of South Africa to work for social cohesion in the country. "The struggle for democracy has never been a matter pursued by one race, class, religious community or gender among South Africans. As future leaders of this country, your challenge is to foster a nation in which all people, irrespective of race, colour, sex, religion or creed, can ascertain a social cohesion fully," (http://www.TheTimes-Mandela calls for 'social cohesion'.htm). My perspective regarding humans is, to paraphrase the late Clyde Kluckhohn, that: Every human is like all other humans, some other humans and no other human.
- Format
- 53 pages
- Publisher
- Nelson Mandela University
- Publisher
- Faculty of Arts
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Inaugural & public lecture
- Relation
- Inaugural & public lecture 2008
- Rights
- Nelson Mandela University
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