Begging, borrowing, stealing: The context for media plagiarism in twenty-first century South Africa

Critical Arts ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 122-131 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ian Glenn
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
First Century ◽  
Twenty First Century

‘I Have Heard from Some Teachers’: the Second-Century Struggle for Forgiveness and Reconciliation

2004 ◽  
Vol 40 ◽  
pp. 5-28
Author(s):  
Christine Trevett
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Northern Ireland ◽  
Second Century ◽  
First Century ◽  
Truth And Reconciliation ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Fictive Kinship ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Brothers And Sisters ◽  
Forgiveness And Reconciliation

In the close-knit valleys communities of South Wales where I was brought up, some fingers are still pointed at ‘the scab’, the miner who, for whatever reason, did not show solidarity in the strike of 1984-5, cement the definition between ‘them’ and ‘us’. In trouble-torn Palestine of the twenty-first century, or among the paramilitary groups of Northern Ireland today, suspected informers are summarily assassinated. In South Africa, the Truth and Reconciliation Committee continues its work in the post-apartheid era. In second-century Rome and elsewhere, the ‘brothers’ and ‘sisters’ who made up the fictive kinship groups – the churches – in the growing but illicit cult of the Christians were conscious both of their own vulnerability to outside opinion and of their failures in relation to their co-religionists. The questions which they asked, too, were questions about reconciliation and/or (spiritual) death.

scholarly journals A study of identity in post-apartheid South African English literature: The Pickup by Nadine Gordimer

Literator ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-68 ◽  
Author(s):  
M.J. Cloete
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
South African ◽  
English Literature ◽  
Northern Africa ◽  
First Century ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Transformation ◽  
Nadine Gordimer ◽  
Personal Freedom ◽  
Twenty First Century

In examining aspects of identity in “The Pickup” (2001), Nadine Gordimer’s latest novel, this article indicates new trends in postapartheid South African English literature as well. In the article it is indicated that identity has always been an important theme in Gordimer’s novels. Her earlier novels tend to focus on her characters’ struggle to attain political or racial rather than personal freedom, while her later novels increasingly tend to examine the construction of individual identities. “The Pickup” has continued this search for identity, but against a new and interesting perspective, a perspective that is in line with the political transformation of post-apartheid South Africa after 1994. Moreover, this theme is extremely relevant in the twenty-first century with its increased emphasis on place and globalisation. This article thus examines the theme of identity in “The Pickup”, first against a South African background and then against the backdrop of an unknown town somewhere in the desert – most probably in Northern Africa.

scholarly journals The changing nature of hydroclimatic risks across South Africa

2021 ◽  
Vol 168 (3-4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Adam Schlosser ◽  
Andrei Sokolov ◽  
Ken Strzepek ◽  
Tim Thomas ◽  
Xiang Gao ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Air Temperature ◽  
Climate Models ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
Coupled Model ◽  
Surface Air Temperature ◽  
First Century ◽  
Near Surface ◽  
Climate Targets ◽  
Twenty First Century

AbstractWe present results from large ensembles of projected twenty-first century changes in seasonal precipitation and near-surface air temperature for the nation of South Africa. These ensembles are a result of combining Monte Carlo projections from a human-Earth system model of intermediate complexity with pattern-scaled responses from climate models of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 5 (CMIP5). These future ensemble scenarios consider a range of global actions to abate emissions through the twenty-first century. We evaluate distributions of surface-air temperature and precipitation change over three sub-national regions: western, central, and eastern South Africa. In all regions, we find that without any emissions or climate targets in place, there is a greater than 50% likelihood that mid-century temperatures will increase threefold over the current climate’s two-standard deviation range of variability. However, scenarios that consider more aggressive climate targets all but eliminate the risk of these salient temperature increases. A preponderance of risk toward decreased precipitation (3 to 4 times higher than increased) exists for western and central South Africa. Strong climate targets abate evolving regional hydroclimatic risks. Under a target to limit global climate warming to 1.5 °C by 2100, the risk of precipitation changes within South Africa toward the end of this century (2065–2074) is commensurate to the risk during the 2030s without any global climate target. Thus, these regional hydroclimate risks over South Africa could be delayed by 30 years and, in doing so, provide invaluable lead-time for national efforts to prepare, fortify, and/or adapt.

Justice Deprived, Justice Demanded: Afropentecostalisms and the Task of World Pentecostal Theology Today

2006 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 127-147 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amos Yong
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
North America ◽  
First Century ◽  
Sociological Analysis ◽  
Pentecostal Theology ◽  
The Future ◽  
Twenty First Century

AbstractBy and large, Pentecostal theology has proceeded with little attention to black Pentecostalism except as `objects' of historical or sociological analysis. But what does Afropentecostalism—black Pentecostalism in its global contexts—have to contribute to the formulation of a world Pentecostal theology for the twenty-first century? The works of Frank Chikane in South Africa, Robert Beckford in Britain, and Cheryl Sanders in North America are discussed and analyzed as points of entry into the theology of Afropentecostal churches. This essay assumes that the future of world Pentecostal theology cannot ignore the important contributions of Afropentecostal theological traditions.

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