scholarly journals Haunted by the Rebellion of the Poor: Civil Society and the Racialized Problem of the (Non-)economic Subject

2015 ◽  
pp. 52-75 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Selmeczi
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
South African ◽  
New South ◽  
Popular Protest ◽  
The Poor ◽  
The People ◽  
Emancipatory Politics ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Racialized Other ◽  
Apartheid Regime

Intrigued by the so-called “rebellion of the poor,” this paper traces back the current South African concern with popular protest to its reconfiguration during the last years of the apartheid order. Focusing on the discourse around grassroots resistance in the mid- to late-1980s, I begin by showing how, in juxtaposition to an ideal notion of civil society, popular mobilization had been largely delegitimized and the emancipatory politics of ungovernability recast as antidemocratic by the first few years of the post-apartheid regime. In deploying particular notions of violence and culture, this discursive shift, I suggest, fed into reconstructing the ungovernable subject as the racial other of the new South Africa’s citizenry. The second part of the paper mobilizes Foucault’s genealogy of liberalism to draw parallels between this process and the liberal effort to resolve the potentially conflicting principles of governing the economic subject and the subject of rights within the realm of civil society. Finally, via the postcolonial critique of liberal notions of civility and their rootedness in racial thinking, I suggest that civil society secures the governability of the population through rendering the potentially disruptive freedom of the people as the excess freedom of the racialized other.

Housing Citizenship Through the Federation of Urban Poor in South Africa

2018 ◽  
pp. 119-137
Author(s):  
Ndwakhulu Stephen Tshishonga
Keyword(s):  
South African ◽  
Urban Poor ◽  
Document Analysis ◽  
Poor People ◽  
Capability Development ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Development Framework ◽  
The Poor ◽  
The People ◽  
Human Capability

This chapter explores the notion of housing citizenship through the Federation of Urban Poor (FEDUP) among the poor and homeless in South African townships. Through the Federation of Urban Poor, the poor people have been instrumental and pragmatic in promoting housing citizenship self-funded and with the help of the Department of Human Settlement both locally and nationally. The chapter makes use of human-capability development framework to draw lessons for active participation and empowerment in the delivery of services such as houses. The chapter found that the people involved in FEDUP managed to transform their dire situation from marginalization to empowerment and have managed to further outsource both government and private sector resources in the form of finances and human expertise. The data in this chapter are collected through face-to-face interviews, document analysis, and observations.

scholarly journals Book review: “Into the people effectiveness arena: Navigating between chaos and order”

2003 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Herman J. Pietersen
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Human Resource Management ◽  
South African ◽  
Human Resource ◽  
New South ◽  
Strategic Human Resource Management ◽  
Knowledge Resources ◽  
The People ◽  
Management Issues

Veldsman, T.H. (2002) "Into the people effectiveness arena: Navigating between chaos and order", Randburg, South Africa: Knowledge Resources, 364 pages. In a noteworthy new South African management text, Theo Veldsman, consultant in the strategic human resource management (SHRM) field, brings together the fruit of many years of experience and thought on people management issues in an exciting new way.

Affirmative Action versus Nonracialism in the New South Africa

2003 ◽  
Vol 32 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Nicholas L. Waddy
Keyword(s):  
South African ◽  
New South ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
South Africans ◽  
Local Newspaper ◽  
Family Tradition ◽  
The Family ◽  
Real Value ◽  
The Government ◽  
Apartheid Regime

Last year, a distant cousin, who also happens to be a white South African, sent me a fascinating article from her local newspaper. The article was about her husband’s family, the Moores, and specifically about a claim the family made recently with South Africa’s Commission on Restitution of Land Rights (see Segar 2003). The claim is remarkable, because it has been one of the few lodged by white South Africans to obtain compensation for land that was taken from them under the apartheid regime. It seems that in 1965, several trading stores that had been owned by the Moores since the 1880s were confiscated by the South African Bantu Trust because they stood on land that was to become part of the independent black homeland known as the Transkei. The confiscation and the family’s eviction from the area were deeply traumatic—they were uprooted from their home, separated from friends and loyal customers (including Xhosa), and forced to witness the end of a family tradition. But the Moores had no choice, and the government offered them only one-third of the real value of the property as compensation. Today the family is seeking restitution, but as with most of the injustices perpetrated under apartheid, there is little that can be done to restore a way of life that was destroyed long ago.

scholarly journals The social dimension of multi-racial advertising: Its impact on consumers’ attitude

2009 ◽  
Vol 40 (2) ◽  
pp. 45-52 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. D. Johnson
Keyword(s):  
South African ◽  
Brand Equity ◽  
Attribution Theory ◽  
New South ◽  
Social Dimension ◽  
Socially Responsible ◽  
The Social ◽  
Study Support ◽  
Apartheid Regime ◽  
The Ideal

Since the end of the apartheid regime, the number of advertisements casting actors from different racial backgrounds simultaneously has significantly increased. Comments about this development are multi-faceted. While some observers praise this technique as the ideal social mirror of the “new” South Africa, others criticize it as a pervasive commercial tactic. Consistent with this debate, it is important for brands to understand consumers’ perceptions of multi-racial advertising. Indeed, these perceptions are also assumed to influence consumers’ attitude towards the advertised brand. Based on the attribution theory, this study investigates whether South African companies, by integrating a multi-racial feature in an advertisement, create the perception amongst consumers that their advertisement is socially responsible and, in so doing, increase their brand equity. The empirical results of this study support that consumers’ attitude towards a brand is significantly influenced by the extent to which they attribute a social responsibility to its advertisements. Nevertheless, it is also found that using multi-racial advertising is a necessary but not sufficient condition to generate this social attribution.

scholarly journals POLÍTICA EXTERNA DA NOVA ÁFRICA DO SUL: REINSERÇÃO E AFIRMAÇÃO REGIONAL

2014 ◽  
Vol 3 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kamilla Raquel Rizzi ◽  
Nathaly Xavier Schutz
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
South African ◽  
New South ◽  
International System ◽  
African Countries ◽  
Nelson Mandela ◽  
Strategic Position ◽  
Apartheid Regime ◽  
In The Beginning ◽  
Indian And Atlantic Oceans

South Africa is a country of singular importance for the understanding of contemporary International Relations. Situated at the Southernmost region of the African continent, coasted by the Indian and Atlantic oceans, South Africa occupies a geopolitical and geoeconomic strategic position. In the beginning of the 1990s, with the end of the Apartheid regime, the country starts a period of international reinsertion that presents as a fundamental feature the stabilization of the relations with the other African countries, especially its neighbors of Southern Africa. The objective of this article is to analyze the foreign policy of the New South Africa (from Nelson Mandela to Jacob Zuma), presenting as a central thread the role played by regional insertion for the South African ambitions in the international system.

New African Initiated Pentecostalism and Charismatics in South Africa

2005 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 66-92 ◽  
Author(s):  
Allan Anderson
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
South African ◽  
New South ◽  
Pentecostal Churches ◽  
Ambivalent Relationship ◽  
Run Up ◽  
Apartheid Regime ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Charismatic Christianity

AbstractThe new Pentecostal churches in South Africa, while not as numerically significant as those elsewhere in Africa, follow similar patterns. Tracing the rise of white megachurches in the 1980s and the subsequent emergence of black Charismatic churches similar to those found elsewhere in Africa, this article outlines their ambivalent relationship with the apartheid regime and the increasing disillusionment of black Pentecostals in the run-up to the 1994 elections. It traces the roles of Pentecostal and Charismatic leaders in the new South Africa and the impact of African Charismatic preachers from elsewhere, pilgrimages to other Pentecostal centres and other factors of globalization. After a survey of different Pentecostal churches, it discusses how new South African Pentecostals illustrate Coleman's dimensions of a globalized Charismatic Christianity.

scholarly journals The Perpetual Uncertainty of Civil Society: Case Study of an Anti-Hunger Organization in South Africa

2015 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 91-109
Author(s):  
Daniel N. Warshawsky
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Civil Society ◽  
South African ◽  
State Funding ◽  
Civil Society Organizations ◽  
Organizational Stability ◽  
Apartheid Regime ◽  
State Programs ◽  
Institutional Challenges

AbstractSouth Africa has one of the most active civil societies in the world, with more than 85,000 registered civil society organizations (CSOs). However, the growth of CSOs in post-apartheid South Africa does not necessarily imply that the sector is strong. While it is true that the demise of the apartheid regime increased democratic representation within South Africa, CSOs have experienced a series of institutional challenges which have weakened their organizational stability. This has included increased oversight by the state, inefficient and inconsistent funding from government, fickle demands by private donors, and competition from other sectors. Through an in-depth case study of a historically prominent CSO in South Africa, this paper critically analyzes the institutional challenges faced by CSOs in South Africa. Data findings suggest that lack of long-term funding support, ineffective state funding mechanisms, and competition from state programs and new CSOs have resulted in perpetual uncertainty for some CSOs. In all, these institutional problems may have the potential to shrink, destabilize, and limit the viability of South African CSOs. Moreover, this suggests that South African democratization may have simultaneously produced new opportunities for some CSOs, yet reinforced unequal power relations for other CSOs and thus produced a highly polarized CSO landscape.

scholarly journals Arts and censorship in South Africa 1948-2000

2000 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Raymond H. Allard
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
South African ◽  
Art Making ◽  
The Arts ◽  
The People ◽  
Look Ahead ◽  
Personal Experiences ◽  
Apartheid Regime ◽  
Arts Community

This dissertation is concerned with the effects of censorship on the arts community during the apartheid era in South Africa, and in the post apartheid era that followed. Through interviews and various sources, a picture will be presented that examines the contrasts and similarities of the two eras. Chapter One will present an overview of South African history, from its beginnings in 1653 to the first popular election in 1994. It will show how the religious beliefs and accompanying attitudes of the in-coming colonialists created a social atmosphere in which the system of apartheid was able to flourish and grow. It will also show how apartheid ultimately crumbled under pressure from growing resistance and violence among the people it sought to control. Chapter Two is comprised primarily of the results of several interviews with selected artists, showing how the various individuals thought about censorship, how they dealt with all the restrictive laws, and how they were able to pursue their art making under these conditions. Personal experiences illuminate the effects of such censorship, and opinions about the value and necessity of censorship are summarized. Various of the interviewees talk specifically about what actions they took under the apartheid regime, and how they viewed, and continue to view, the role of the artist in society. Chapter Three uses several case studies to illustrate what is currently happening concerning censorship and art in the post-apartheid era. Opinions and reactions to current conditions will be presented, and specific instances of censorship or attempted censorship will offer a comparison with the previous era. This will illustrate how much liberty artists today enjoy in South Africa. Several significant issues are raised by such examples; Issues of potency and importance to any culture. Finally, the artists themselves look ahead, and provide a picture of the future for arts in this society .

Celebrity Election versus Lottery Selection: A Reconsideration

2012 ◽  
Vol 33 (01) ◽  
pp. 33-44
Author(s):  
Carl Rapp
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Social Institutions ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
The Political ◽  
Ethical Life ◽  
Sovereign State ◽  
The People ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Leadership Class

In The Just State, Richard Dien Winfield has completed his exposition of the immanent logic of ethical life, the earlier parts of which are developed in his books The Just Economy, The Just Family, and Law in Civil Society. The purpose of his exposition is not to discuss isolated or miscellaneous topics pertaining to politics or ethics. Instead, his goal from the beginning has been to show objectively what justice looks like when it is fully embodied in a state's political and social institutions. The just state, as he presents it, is simply the largest possible political framework for maintaining equitable arrangements within a country's already established civil society, a framework that permits civil society to adjust to new contingencies as they arise, be they domestic or international. The purpose of the just state is to preserve, not to tamper with, the political and nonpolitical freedoms of its citizens. The essence of these freedoms is that they are all modes of self-determination, whereby what one does is freely determined by oneself and not by the arbitrary controlling authority of others. An individual whose life is determined by family, by tradition, or by commandment, is unfree. A state whose people are imposed on by a leadership class, or by any authority other than that of the people themselves, is likewise unfree. In order to establish freedom and justice, the citizens of a sovereign state must codetermine their own institutions. In accordance with this purpose, their institutions must be constructed in a particular way, which is the subject of The Just State.

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