Personality and behavior prediction and consistency across cultures: A multimethod study of Blacks and Whites in South Africa.

This article argues (a) that the content of racial representations in South Africa has changed historically, and (b) that these representations are grounded in concrete patterns of spatio-temporal interactions between blacks and whites that have characterised different historical epochs. These arguments are developed by means of a consideration of racial interactions and representations in four historical periods: the early Cape colony, the frontier, apartheid and the contemporary post-apartheid period. The bulk of the discussion concerns the kinds of representations that are being developed and perpetuated in the present desegregated context, where whites experience displacement at the hands of blacks, and blacks experience whites running away from them.

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Self-other agreement in personality traits and profiles across cultures: A multirater, multiscale study in Blacks and Whites in South Africa

Journal of Personality ◽

10.1111/jopy.12367 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 86 (6) ◽

pp. 935-951 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Velichko H. Fetvadjiev ◽

Deon Meiring ◽

Fons J. R. van de Vijver ◽

J. Alewyn Nel ◽

François De Kock

Keyword(s):

South Africa ◽

Personality Traits ◽

Blacks And Whites

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The Last Years of Apartheid

Issue A Journal of Opinion ◽

10.1017/s004716070050434x ◽

1978 ◽

Vol 8 (4) ◽

pp. 60-63

Author(s):

Herbert Vilakazi

Keyword(s):

South Africa ◽

Southern Africa ◽

Revolutionary War ◽

Armed Struggle ◽

Peaceful Resolution ◽

Liberation Movement ◽

Blacks And Whites ◽

Liberation Struggle ◽

Racial Problem

“Everything in Russia is ‘as of old’, at the top.But there is also something new, at the bottom.”Lenin, 1911The most crucial factor overhanging any discussion of Southern Africa today is the imminent revolutionary war between blacks and whites in South Africa. The Sharpeville Massacre of 1960 and the suppression of the ANC and PAC forced upon the leaders of the liberation movement the conclusion that only the violence of the oppressed against the white regime will bring about freedom for the blacks. Sharpeville, therefore, marked a watershed in the liberation struggle, in that the leadership of the liberation organizations abandoned hope of a peaceful resolution of the racial problem. They then proceeded, abroad, to begin preparations for the armed struggle.

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SOUTH AFRICA 2016 – A COMING OF AGE: THEOLOGICAL AND ETHICAL REFLECTIONS ON THE FUTURE OF SOUTH AFRICA

Strategic Review for Southern Africa ◽

10.35293/srsa.v38i1.295 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 38 (1) ◽

Author(s):

N Barney Pityana

Keyword(s):

South Africa ◽

Coming Of Age ◽

Herbert Marcuse ◽

False Consciousness ◽

Democratic Accountability ◽

One Dimensional ◽

The People ◽

Democratic System ◽

Ethical Reflections ◽

And Behavior

This essay marks the maturing of South Africa's democracy since it was established in 1994. It raises questions as to whether the democratic dispensation has fulfilled what it promised, and it examines the reasons thereof. In essence it reasons that democracy has failed the people of South Africa because it lacks democratic accountability, and a firm foundation on the expressed will of the people. The theological and ethical factors in addressing the failings of a democratic system come into view. The essay concludes with an affirmation of the essential character of the church in promoting and defending justice in the world. One-dimensional thought is systematically promoted by the makers of politics and the purveyors of mass information. Their universe of discourse is populated by self-validating hypotheses which necessarily and mono-politically repeated, become hypnotic definitions and dictations... The products indoctrinate and manipulat; they promote a false consciousness that is immune against falsehood… This emerges a pattern of one-dimensional thought and behavior… Herbert Marcuse: One-Dimensional Man (1964)

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EDUCATION AND THE AGRARIAN QUESTION IN SOUTH AFRICA, c. 1900–40

The Journal of African History ◽

10.1017/s0021853716000062 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 57 (2) ◽

pp. 251-270 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

JULIA TISCHLER

Keyword(s):

South Africa ◽

South African ◽

Agricultural Education ◽

Structural Changes ◽

State Intervention ◽

Rural Planning ◽

Agrarian Question ◽

Agricultural Planning ◽

Blacks And Whites ◽

And Gender

AbstractDuring the first half of the twentieth century, deep structural changes occurred in the South African countryside. While farming became an important pillar of the national economy, more and more people left the land in search of better lives in towns and cities. This article examines agricultural education, an early avenue of state intervention in farming, to elucidate how officials and groups of farmers navigated the ‘agrarian question’ by trying to define the roles that men, women, blacks, and whites played in the sector's restructuring. I argue that agricultural planning was inextricable from ideologies and politics of segregation, a factor that historiography has not systematically taken into account. By comparing interventions in the Transkei and Ciskei with those in the Orange Free State, this article illuminates the interrelations between rural planning and segregation, as well as how they were complicated by delineations of class and gender.

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Youth Violence in South Africa: Exposure, Attitudes, and Resilience in Zulu Adolescents

Violence and Victims ◽

10.1891/0886-6708.27.2.166 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 27 (2) ◽

pp. 166-181 ◽

Cited By ~ 10

Author(s):

Daniel Ewon Choe ◽

Marc A. Zimmerman ◽

Bashi Devnarain

Keyword(s):

South Africa ◽

Youth Violence ◽

Structural Equation ◽

Violent Behavior ◽

Equation Modeling ◽

Mediated Effects ◽

Multiple Group ◽

Adult Involvement ◽

And Behavior ◽

Attitudes And Behavior

Exposure to violence is common in South Africa. Yet, few studies examine how violence exposure contributes to South African adolescents’ participation in youth violence. The aims of this study were to examine effects of different violence exposures on violent attitudes and behavior, to test whether attitudes mediated effects of violence exposures on violent behavior, and to test whether adult involvement had protective or promotive effects. Questionnaires were administered to 424 Zulu adolescents in township high schools around Durban, South Africa. Structural equation modeling (SEM) was used to test associations among violence exposures and both violent attitudes and behavior. Victimization, witnessing violence, and friends’ violent behavior contributed directly to violent behavior. Only family conflict and friends’ violence influenced violent attitudes. Attitudes mediated effects of friends’ violence on violent behavior. Multiple-group SEM indicated that adult involvement fit a protective model of resilience. These findings are discussed regarding their implications for prevention.

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