Life in a police state: A black South African woman speaks out

1989 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 157-166 ◽  
Author(s):  
Diana E.H. Russell
Keyword(s):  
South African ◽  
African Woman ◽  
South African Woman ◽  
Black South African

Novel APOB missense variants, A224T and V925L, in a black South African woman with marked hypocholesterolemia

2016 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 604-609 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sharon A. Miller ◽  
Amanda J. Hooper ◽  
George A. Mantiri ◽  
David Marais ◽  
Donald M. Tanyanyiwa ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
South African ◽  
African Woman ◽  
South African Woman ◽  
Missense Variants ◽  
Black South African

The Sounds of Silence – As Heard through Patriarchy

2018 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hilda Israel
Keyword(s):  
Black Women ◽  
South African ◽  
Professional Competence ◽  
Real Life ◽  
African Women ◽  
African Woman ◽  
South African Woman ◽  
Black South African ◽  
South African Women ◽  
And Shifts

It is the drive from work that transmogrifies her even more. She is a black, South African woman. At work, she adapts to meet expectations of her professional competence. At home, she adapts and shifts to her husband and/or father’s expectations of a woman in their culture. Within herself, she shifts her needs, emotions, and aspirations to fit into these contexts. Through it all, she carefully chooses what can be spoken, and what remains unspoken. Many factors influence this inner debate, chiefly patriarchy, race, religion, and culture. This article reflects on the premise that many black women are deprived of their spontaneous and natural being, because they have to evaluate their conversations and contexts at all times. Through the lens of patriarchy, the article seeks to identify some of the factors contributing to this inner debate, followed by real-life evidence of the shifting adaptations made by selected black, South African women. These women volunteered to share their stories by answering a questionnaire. The data they provided was then analysed through phenomenology and critical theory. These are the sounds of their silence.  

scholarly journals A portrait of the South African woman manager

1979 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 57-63 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sandra Van Der Merwe
Keyword(s):  
South African ◽  
Role Models ◽  
Women Managers ◽  
African Women ◽  
African Woman ◽  
South African Woman ◽  
Working Lives ◽  
Management Positions ◽  
South African Women ◽  
Future Management

Women who are currently in responsible management positions provide role models and valuable feedback for the future management development of womanpower in South Africa. This article, based on replies received in a national survey of women who have management and executive status in corporations, presents an overview of South African women managers. Who are they? How do they tend to think? What kind of work areas and habits do they have? How do they explain their own success and the failure of other women to reach the top? And what is important to them in their day-to-day working lives? The data collected in this project have exposed some interesting trends - useful as indicators for management, for women in careers and for parties, academic and other, intent on continuing work in this research area.Vrouens wat tans verantwoordelike bestuursposte beklee, is rolmodelle en gee waardevolle terugvoering vir die toekomstige ontwikkeling van vrouekrag in Suid-Afrika. Hierdie artikel, wat gebaseer is op antwoorde ontvang in 'n landswye opname van vrouens wat bestuurs- en uitvoerende status in maatskappye het, gee 'n oorsig van Suid-Afrikaanse vroue-bestuurders. Wie is hulle? Hoe is hulle geneig om te dink? Watter soort werkareas en -gewoontes het hulle? Hoe verklaar hulle hul eie sukses en die mislukking van ander vrouens om die top te bereik? En wat is belangrik in hulle daaglikse werklewens? Die data in hierdie projek versamel, het interessante tendense blootgele - nuttig as aanduidings vir bestuur, vir vrouens in loopbane en vir instansies, akademies en ander, wat daarin belangstel om verdere werk in hierdie navorsingsarea te doen.

Housewives, Maids or Mothers: Some Contradictions of Domesticity for Christian Women in Johannesburg, 1903–39

1983 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 241-256 ◽  
Author(s):  
Deborah Gaitskell
Keyword(s):  
Black Women ◽  
South African ◽  
African Women ◽  
Child Rearing ◽  
African Woman ◽  
Full Time ◽  
Christian Women ◽  
Youth Movement ◽  
Mission Schools ◽  
Black South African

Early twentieth-century missionaries in South Africa invariably subscribed to an ideology of domesticity for African Christian women. Being a housewife and mother was seen as a full-time spiritual vocation. In Johannesburg, for example, women's domestic role within marriage gave point to the whole range of female mission activity. Housewifery was not only taught at special mission schools, but also in women's hostels, a girls' youth movement and a delinquents' institution. These agencies and the African women's prayer unions also sought to combat premarital pregnancy in adolescent girls, because Christian marriage was regarded as the only proper context for motherhood. Maternity was central as well to female medical mission efforts. But the ideology of domesticity was in practice fraught with contradictions in the South African setting. First, housework training inevitably had an ambiguous status since it often aimed at supplying domestic servants to white households. Secondly, full-time motherhood was impossible for urban African women compelled to supplement their husbands' low earnings. White liberals therefore favoured higher African wages partly to free black women financially to fulfil their ‘natural’ child-rearing role. African women themselves have campaigned for domesticity against the authorities' policies of labour control. Bloemfontein in 1913 and Crossroads squatter camp in the late 1970s provide striking examples of such struggles. The Western feminist may see both the family and the role of housewife as oppressive. For the black South African woman, by contrast, the ideology of domesticity infusing these institutions may represent something positive denied her by the state.

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