The Paradox of Undernutrition and Obesity in South Africa: A Contextual Overview of Food Quality, Access and Availability in the New Democracy

2015 ◽  
pp. 31-41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Moïse Muzigaba ◽  
Thandi Puoane ◽  
David Sanders
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Food Quality ◽  
New Democracy

The Role of University Leadership in Advocating Social Justice in South African Higher Education

2021 ◽  
pp. 1527-1544
Author(s):  
Naziema Begum Jappie
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
South Africa ◽  
Social Justice ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Black Population ◽  
Governance System ◽  
Role Players ◽  
New Democracy ◽  
South African Higher Education

Higher education institutions in South Africa are undergoing remarkable changes. Traditionally, universities have been governed on a scholastic, academic, and research basis. This promoted an authoritarian and autonomous governance system, which clearly justified separate education under apartheid. The new democracy in South Africa vowed to change the system to ensure equity, diversity, and justice in education. Universities had to transform to benefit the underprivileged, disadvantaged, Black population of the country. This resulted in universities having to conduct their activities in a corporate style and, as such, required a commitment by all stakeholders to succeed. University leaderships are important role players who are pivotal in ensuring that social justice prevails. This chapter will investigate the role of leadership in shaping vision and mission in addition, ensuring policy implementation at the various higher education institutions.

scholarly journals Land and justice in South Africa

2010 ◽  
pp. 135-139
Author(s):  
Siobhan O'Sullivan
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
South Africa ◽  
Service Delivery ◽  
Land Reform ◽  
Economic Transformation ◽  
Slow Pace ◽  
Nelson Mandela ◽  
Public Debates ◽  
New Democracy

When Nelson Mandela took office on 10th May 1994 as South Africa’s first democratic president, he pledged that out of “an extraordinary human disaster” would come “a society of which all humanity will be proud”. Since then, South Africa has been praised for overcoming racial division and hatred in a peaceful manner while developing economic growth. This positive picture of post-apartheid South Africa has been compromised in recent years by rising crime, xenophobic violence, unemployment, and service-delivery protests. My research looks at how the new democracy has redistributed land and why less than 1% of the population still own the majority of the land. To understand the slow pace of land reform, I have examined the policies of the ANC, the polarised public debates on land reform, and the constraints on economic transformation. In order to achieve justice and ultimately reconciliation, problems with redistribution must be addressed. This requires not ...

The South African Sexual Offences Act and Local Meanings of Coercion and Consent in KwaZulu Natal: Universal Human Rights?

2012 ◽  
Vol 55 (2) ◽  
pp. 59-75 ◽  
Author(s):  
Judith L. Singleton
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
South African ◽  
Sexual Coercion ◽  
Daily Basis ◽  
Sexual Offences ◽  
Beliefs And Practices ◽  
Kwazulu Natal ◽  
Universal Human Rights ◽  
New Democracy

Abstract:In 2007 South Africa's Parliament passed the Sexual Offences Act, which had been debated since 1999. The law includes a statutory provision with new legal definitions of rape and consent. Influenced by Western human rights ideology and vocabulary, the Sexual Offences Act represents one form of discourse in South Africa about sexual coercion and consent. By using ethnographic methods, this article examines the wide disparity between some of the state discourses about coercion and consent and local beliefs and practices about the meanings of these terms in the Zulu township of Mpophomeni. Proponents of South Africa's new democracy often ignore poor young women's and men's local understandings of rape and of the violence they encounter on a daily basis. Against this background, the article offers recommendations to improve the current law and its effectiveness.

South Africa reborn: building a new democracy

2000 ◽  
Vol 37 (09) ◽  
pp. 37-5321-37-5321
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
New Democracy

South Africa Reborn: Building A New Democracy

2005 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dr Heather Deegan ◽  
Heather Deegan
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
New Democracy

scholarly journals The pedagogical role of multicultural leadership in post-apartheid South Africa

2014 ◽  
Vol 70 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Gordon E. Dames ◽  
Glenda A. Dames
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Practical Theology ◽  
Social Transformation ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Multicultural Society ◽  
Social Challenges ◽  
Multicultural Leadership ◽  
New Democracy ◽  
The Relationship

Practical theology in the 21st century is faced with increasing diversity that requires a new pedagogy to address multicultural challenges. Multiculturalism serves as a subversive agency for monocultural and ‘silent minority’ landscapes. It might also contribute to the development of an identity pedagogue for the three public spaces of theology, specifically in South Africa, where this new democracy seeks a new culture of humanity and has to deal with the dichotomy of a multicultural society and a resistant monocultural ‘laager’ mentality of minority races. Despite the promising start to its democracy, South Africa has many social challenges and practical theology has a role to play by reflecting on how we understand and embody the relationship between faith, culture and public life. To this end, this article seeks to reflect critically on spirituality, leadership and social transformation praxis in search of meaning-forming multicultural praxes.

scholarly journals Daughters do not affect political beliefs in a new democracy

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amanda Clayton ◽  
Daniel de Kadt ◽  
Nicolas K Dumas
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Political Behavior ◽  
Women's Rights ◽  
Statistical Significance ◽  
Women’S Rights ◽  
Equivalence Testing ◽  
Middle Income ◽  
Political Opportunities ◽  
Partisan Identification ◽  
New Democracy

Having a daughter shapes parents' attitudes and behaviors in gender-egalitarian ways, a finding documented in multiple industrialized democracies. We test whether this travels to a young middle-income democracy where women's rights are tenuous: South Africa. Contrary to prior work we find no discernible effect on attitudes about women's rights or partisan identification. Using a unique dataset of over 7,500 respondents and an equivalence testing approach, we reject the null hypothesis of any effects of 5 percentage points or greater at conventional levels of statistical significance. We speculate that our null findings relate to opportunity: daughter effects are more likely when parents perceive economic, social, and political opportunities for women. When women's customary status and de factor opportunities are low, as in South Africa, having a daughter may have no effect on parents' political behavior. Our results demonstrate the virtues of diversifying case selection in political behavior beyond economically wealthy democracies.

scholarly journals Are Customers Satisfied With Healthier Food Options At South African Fast-Food Outlets?

2014 ◽  
Vol 13 (6) ◽  
pp. 1199
Author(s):  
Michael C. Cant ◽  
Ricardo Machado ◽  
Melanie Gopaul
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Customer Satisfaction ◽  
South African ◽  
Food Quality ◽  
Fast Food ◽  
Food Outlets ◽  
Global Trend ◽  
Fast Food Consumption ◽  
Nutritional Benefits

Fast-food consumption has been a staple for many people; however, due to rising health concerns, there has been an increasing interest in the consumption of healthier food both in South Africa and elsewhere. Many consumers are demanding better quality foods that offer nutritional benefits. This global trend has led to fast-food outlets adding healthier food options to their menus. Limited literature exists on customer satisfaction with regards to the food quality of these healthier food options. Therefore, the purpose of this article is to determine the level of customer satisfaction with the food quality of healthier food options available at fast-food outlets in South Africa. The study followed a mixed method approach, whereby a self-administered questionnaire was distributed to students at a residential South African University. The results indicate that South African consumers are highly satisfied with the food quality of the healthier food options at fast-food outlets.

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