The South African Folle volo: Dante's Ulysses reinvented

2021 ◽  
pp. 153-167
Author(s):  
Sonia Fanucchi
Keyword(s):  
South African ◽  
The South ◽  
Moral Language ◽  
African Students

The figure of Ulysses haunts the pages of Dante’s Commedia, embodying a tension between past and present, and the potential and dangers inherent in any attempt at transformation. In this chapter I focus on four creative pieces by young South African students for whom Dante’s Ulysses becomes a rich and suggestive symbol. Despite their overt differences in approach, I argue that these pieces are all connected by a creative response to Dante, translating and conversing with his Ulysses from their personal and political perspectives. They are notable for their paradoxical approach to Dante’s hero, as they attempt to fashion new identities, to break free of the destructive influence of South Africa’s past, and to develop a more authentic, moral language.

scholarly journals Insights into the reversal error from a study with South African and Spanish prospective primary teachers

Pythagoras ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 42 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Calos Soneira ◽  
Sarah Bansilal ◽  
Reginald Govender
Keyword(s):  
South African ◽  
Word Order ◽  
Word Problems ◽  
Explanatory Power ◽  
The South ◽  
African Students ◽  
Bachelor Of Education ◽  
Reversal Error ◽  
Matching Strategy ◽  
Direct Proportionality

This study, using a quantitative approach, examined Spanish and South African pre-service teachers’ responses to translating word problems based on direct proportionality into equations. The participants were 79 South African and 211 Spanish prospective primary school teachers who were in their second year of a Bachelor of Education degree. The study’s general objective was to compare the students’ proficiency in expressing direct proportionality word problems as equations, with a particular focus on the extent of the reversal error among the students’ responses. Furthermore, the study sought to test the explanatory power of word order matching and the static comparison as causes of the reversal error in the two contexts. The study found that South African students had a higher proportion of correct responses across all the items. While nearly all the errors made by Spanish students were reversals, the South African group barely committed reversal errors. However, a subgroup of the South African students made errors consisting of equations that do not make sense in the situation, suggesting that they had poor foundational knowledge of the multiplicative comparison relation and did not understand the functioning of the algebraic language. The study also found that the word order matching strategy has some explanatory power for the reversal error in both contexts. However, the static comparison strategy offers explanatory power only in the Spanish context, suggesting that there may be a difference in curriculum and instructional approaches in the middle and secondary years of schooling, which is when equations are taught.

Some Observations on Resistance and Revolution in Contemporary Africa

2012 ◽  
Vol 47 (3) ◽  
pp. 279-290 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ted R Gurr
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
South African ◽  
Expert Witness ◽  
Stage Model ◽  
The South ◽  
African Students ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Critical Understanding ◽  
Political Trials ◽  
The Revolution

This unique essay, in which the author reminisces on and draws from his involvement as an expert witness in one of South Africa’s apartheid era political trials, is testimony that ideas live independently of their creators. Although the author was initially mentioned in the trial by the prosecution, which claimed that his book, Why Men Rebel, provided a four-stage model of revolutionary strategy for cadres of the Black People’s Convention (BPC) and the South African Students’ Organization (SASO), his subsequent testimony was for the defense, and was used to counter the prosecution. Here, the author applies the Why Men Rebel theory to South Africa to assess the issues raised in Kwandiwe Kondlo’s book, In the Twilight of the Revolution (2009), which examines the role played by the Pan-Africanist Congress (PAC) as well as the resultant multi-racial democratic dispensation in post-apartheid South Africa in South Africa’s anti-apartheid struggle. The essay and the revelations it encompasses are quite deep and relevant for a critical understanding of the trend of politics in post-liberation South Africa, in particular, and post-colonial Africa in general.

Exploring recidivism in the South African context.

1998 ◽  
Author(s):  
Belinda Bedell ◽  
Nicholas Challis ◽  
Charl Cilliers ◽  
Joy Cole ◽  
Wendy Corry ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
South African ◽  
South African Context ◽  
The South ◽  
African Context

Macroinvertebrate variability between microhabitats of peritidal stromatolites along the South African coast

2018 ◽  
Vol 605 ◽  
pp. 37-47 ◽  
Author(s):  
RA Weston ◽  
R Perissinotto ◽  
GM Rishworth ◽  
PP Steyn
Keyword(s):  
South African ◽  
The South ◽  
African Coast
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