scholarly journals Clements Kadalie, the trade unionist, and prophet Shepherd Bushiri

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Modisa Mzondi
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
South African ◽  
Union Leader ◽  
Gold Rush ◽  
Gold Deposits ◽  
Past Century ◽  
Case Study Analysis ◽  
Cheap Labour ◽  
Union Leadership ◽  
Trade Unionist

The gold rush in South Africa required many workers, both skilled and unskilled, to work on the surface and underground in the recently discovered gold deposits on the Witwatersrand. Mining companies ventured to lure such labour across South(ern) Africa. As such, in the past century, trade union leadership and religious leadership in South Africa shared similar objectives. Clements Kadalie is one of those workers who reached South Africa to offer cheap labour and ended as a union leader. The post 1994 South African democratic dispensation attracted many people to pursue better economic opportunities. Shepherd Bushiri is one of them. This article engages in some theological reflections on these two leaders and their influence among the poor and destitute in South Africa, and by employing case study analysis.

Facial Social Risks in IT Development in South Africa - Learning from Scandinavia

2002 ◽  
pp. 268-289
Author(s):  
Helana Scheepers ◽  
Lars Mathiassen
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Information Technology ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
South African ◽  
Systems Development ◽  
Problem Area ◽  
South Africans ◽  
Social Risks ◽  
Trade Unionist ◽  
African Perspective

South Africa is undergoing a number of changes, which has an effect on every aspect of society from the workplace to everyday life. South Africans need to reflect on this situation and determine how to proceed. The purpose of this article is to consider the development and implementation of information technology, one particular problem area, in this broader context. The article draws an analogy between the trade unionist systems development tradition in Scandinavia and the possible application it might have in South Africa. The article describes the situation in South Africa, presents the trade unionist approach to systems development, and describes the underlying principles that have been identified by Scandinavian researchers. It then evaluates these principles from a South African perspective and discusses the possible uses they might have in the South African situation.

scholarly journals Nooit weer nie? ’n Teologies-etiese beoordeling van die idees oor politieke vryheid in Suid-Afrika sedert 1899

2000 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
J.M. Vorster
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
South African ◽  
Political Freedom ◽  
Past Century ◽  
Ethical Guidelines ◽  
Ethical Perspective ◽  
Boer War ◽  
Black Liberation ◽  
South African Society ◽  
Christian Leaders

Never again? A theological-ethical evaluation of ideas about political freedom in South Africa since 1899 Various conflicting concepts of political freedom and the process of liberation have played a major part in South African society over the past century. These concepts have inherently been influenced by theological-ethical guidelines given by prominent Christian leaders and churches. This article focuses on the conflicting concepts of freedom as they were defined from a theological-ethical perspective in the old republics of Transvaal and the Orange Free State during the Anglo-Boer war which started in 1899, the apartheid society since 1948 and in the Black Liberation struggle which culminated in the democracy of 1994. In every instance the theological-ethical presuppositions used in the formulation of each particular concept of freedom are defined and analysed. In conclusion attention is paid to the state of freedom in South Africa in 2000 and the church’s responsibility to contribute to the development of an ethos of human rights from an ecumenical theological-ethical foundation.

scholarly journals Africa's Media Empire: Drum's Expansion to Nigeria

2005 ◽  
Vol 32 ◽  
pp. 133-164 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tyler Fleming ◽  
Toyin Falola
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
South African ◽  
West African ◽  
Past Century ◽  
African Culture ◽  
The South ◽  
East African ◽  
Staff Members ◽  
Black South African ◽  
Urban South

Publishing in Africa remains so difficult an enterprise that many publishers have collapsed, their dreams disappearing with them. This is especially true of the print media, particularly newspapers and magazines. During the past century, many magazines and newspapers failed to establish a loyal readership, keep costs down, insure wide circulation, or turn a huge profit. Consequently, not many African magazines can be viewed as “successful.” Drum magazine, however, remains an exception.In 1951 Drum, a magazine written for and by Africans, was established in South Africa. Drum enjoyed a great deal of success and is now widely recognized as having been a driving force in black South African culture and life throughout the 1950s and 1960s. In the South African historiography Drum has been thoroughly researched. The magazine's impact on South African journalism, literature, gender configurations, African resistance, and urban South African culture has been documented and often lauded by various scholars. Many former members of the South African edition's payroll, both editors and staff alike, have gone on to become successes in literature, journalism, and photography. Often such staff members credit Drum for directly shaping their careers and directly state this in their writings. Consequently, Drum is often associated only with South Africa. While Drum greatly influenced South Africa, its satel¬lite projects throughout Africa were no less important. These satellite projects cemented Drum's reputation as the leading magazine newspaper in Africa and each edition became fixtures in west African and east African societies.

‘Race’ and Racism in South African Psychology

1991 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 203-210 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. Foster
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
South Africa ◽  
Race Relations ◽  
South African ◽  
The Other ◽  
Past Century ◽  
Race And Racism ◽  
The Past ◽  
Political Divide

In this paper the author sketches how the issues of ‘race’ and racism have been taken up on the psychological terrain in South Africa over the past century. Racism manifested as both segregation and inequality in mental health provisions, and was actively promoted by leading psychologists. Psychologists on the other side of a political divide however turned attention to analysis of race relations mainly through the study of prejudice. Three areas of research are reviewed. While some useful findings have emerged, certain criticisms may be directed against this liberal framework of ‘race’ as prejudice.

Out of Scandinavia - Facing Social Risks in IT Development in South Africa

2002 ◽  
pp. 157-185
Author(s):  
Helana Scheepers ◽  
Lars Mathiassen
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Information Technology ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
South African ◽  
Systems Development ◽  
Problem Area ◽  
South Africans ◽  
Social Risks ◽  
Trade Unionist ◽  
African Perspective

South Africa is undergoing a number of changes, which has an effect on every aspect of society from the workplace to everyday life. South Africans need to reflect on this situation and determine how to proceed. The purpose of this article is to consider the development and implementation of information technology, one particular problem area, in this broader context. The article draws an analogy between the trade unionist systems development tradition in Scandinavia and the possible application it might have in South Africa. The article describes the situation in South Africa, presents the trade unionist approach to systems development, and describes the underlying principles that have been identified by Scandinavian researchers. It then evaluates these principles from a South African perspective and discusses the possible uses they might have in the South African situation.

scholarly journals Tornadoes in South Africa: An Overview with a Case Study

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Offoro Kimambo
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
South African ◽  
Heat Waves ◽  
Warning System ◽  
Study Data ◽  
Study Analysis ◽  
Case Study Approach ◽  
Case Study Analysis ◽  
Study Approach

This paper contributes to the understating of tornadoes in South Africa using case study analysis. In South Africa tornadoes are the recurring phenomenon (the climatology) but they have received less attention. Damages from storms itself (tornadoes inclusive) are significant in South Africa relative to other weather-related disasters for example floods, heat waves, and droughts. Case study approach was adopted in the current study. Data were in the courtesy of the following, National Oceanic and Administration (NOOA), National Centers for Environmental Protections (NCEP), Eumetsat, and South African weather Service. The aim of the study was to provide an overview of the occurrence of tornadoes in South Africa using a case study. From the case study analysis, the tornadoes at Klerksdorp on March 4, 2007, was associated with the cold frontal systems and the cut-ff low (extratropical circulation) which were the dominant weather systems of the day. Case study approach may be the best way to study events of these nature for a more informed decision, for example, issuing an early warning system.  Case studies, for example, involving interaction between extratropical and tropical circulation may be also more informative.

scholarly journals Chiefs or Modern Bureaucrats? Managing Black Police in Early Twentieth-Century South Africa

2012 ◽  
Vol 54 (2) ◽  
pp. 251-274 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keith Shear
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
South African ◽  
Gold Deposits ◽  
White Population ◽  
British Imperialism ◽  
South African War ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
High Commissioner ◽  
Black Police

Early twentieth-century South Africa was a composite society—“part settler state and part African colony … includ[ing] diverse recently conquered African polities as well as a divided white population.” Mining industrialization and British imperialism, particularly after the discovery of substantial gold deposits and the founding of Johannesburg in 1886, put pressure on southern African peoples and states to function as an integrated labor market, and on their leaders to submit to an overarching political authority. These developmental and administrative rationalizing forces were given greater scope in the years following the South African War of 1899 to 1902, especially in the defeated Boer republics of the interior. Renamed the Transvaal and Orange River Colonies, these territories were initially under the direct rule of British High Commissioner Alfred Milner. They took the lead in a process of state-building that continued well beyond their political amalgamation with the coastal colonies of the Cape and Natal to form the Union of South Africa in 1910. It has been argued that this institutional reconstruction left South Africa with “a modern civil service, with controls and an information-gathering capacity sophisticated enough to … make the competence, helpfulness, and honesty of individual state officials relatively less crucial.”

Sailing Beyond Apartheid: The Social and Political Impact of Seafaring on Coloured South African Sailors

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Henry Trotter
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
South African ◽  
Cape Town ◽  
Living Conditions ◽  
Political Consciousness ◽  
Cheap Labour ◽  
The Social ◽  
Political Impact ◽  
General Feeling

This final chapter explores the opportunities available for Cape Town seafarers during the Apartheid era of 1948 to 1994. The purpose is to seek a better understanding of how modern seafaring can shape political consciousness, via an examination of the radical traditions on the Atlantic during the age of sail. It introduces the living conditions of Apartheid era South Africa, then explores the reasons for the lack of revolutionary attitudes from South African sailors at sea. These reasons include the marginally better rights for sailors at sea than on land; the improvement of shipboard conditions due to containerisation; the threat of cheap labour from Asia supplanting jobs; and the general feeling of escape from the cruelties of Apartheid whilst living at sea. Overall, it concludes that sailors did not use their skills to challenge Apartheid, but instead did what they could to make the lives of themselves and their families easier under the regime.

The failure of ethnic nationalism: land, power and the politics of clanship on the South African high veld 1860–1990

Africa ◽  
1995 ◽  
Vol 65 (4) ◽  
pp. 565-591 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leslie Bank
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
South African ◽  
African State ◽  
Ethnic Politics ◽  
Past Century ◽  
The South ◽  
Ethnic Nationalism ◽  
The North ◽  
Role Of The State

AbstractDuring the 1980s a great deal was written about the role of missionaries, anthropologists, colonial officials and intellectuals in the ‘invention’ of ethnic and tribal categories in Africa. Today few scholars would question the complicity of colonial agents in the construction of ethnic or tribal identities. Despite these interventions, however, there is a growing realisation that processes of ethnicity formation are contingent on other factors as well. This article explores this proposition by investigating the role of the sub-ethnic politics of clanship in the north-eastern Orange Free State of South Africa over the past century and its specific contribution to the failure of ethnic nationalism in the region. It concludes that, given the abuse of ethnicity by the South African state, there is an enormous temptation to over-determine the role of the state in ethnic formation in South Africa and to underplay the internal dynamics of ethnicity building.

Managing the Environmental Impacts of Low Activity Wastes From the South African Gold Mining Industry

2001 ◽  
Author(s):  
Denis G. Wymer ◽  
Johan C. Botha
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
South African ◽  
Gold Mining ◽  
Water Environment ◽  
Mining Industry ◽  
Gold Deposits ◽  
Uranium Mineralization ◽  
Control Measures ◽  
South African Gold ◽  
Low Activity

Abstract Uranium mineralization is associated with the gold deposits in South Africa that have been mined for more than a century. Investigations of the radiological impacts on the environment reveal that the various radioactive wastes — mostly of low activity — associated with gold and by-product uranium production do not warrant the application of anything more than basic control measures. Non-radiological pollution of the water environment is a growing problem, however, aggravated by the closure and flooding of mines. Control measures to address this problem should, as a spin-off, limit the release of radionuclides, thus helping to control future radiological pollution.

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