scholarly journals Masekitlana re-membered: A performance-based ethnography of South African black children’s pretend play

2014 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 25
Author(s):  
Esther Ofenste Phetlhu
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
South African ◽  
Empirical Research ◽  
Pretend Play ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Performance Ethnography ◽  
Black South African ◽  
Complex Relation ◽  
Solitary Play ◽  
African Black

<p><em>The extensive empirical research inspired by Piaget and Vygotsky’s theories of make-believe play has been criticised for restricting data to western, urban, middle-class children. We seek to redress this bias by researching a traditional black South African Pedi children’s game </em>Masekitlana<em>. Our data relies on embodied memories enacted by Mapelo (one of the authors), and interviews of two other informants. The analytical framework draws upon ‘emergent methods’ in ethnography such as performance ethnography, autoethnography and memory elicitation through ‘bodynotes’ within a Vygotskyian orientation to play. The findings show that </em>Masekitlana<em> shares features common to all pretend play, but others unique to it  including: i) extended monologue, ii) metacommunicative frames for realistic thinking, and iii) a complex relation between social and solitary play. These findings support Vygotsky. However, ‘the long childhood’ of Masekitlana suggests that the stages theory of Piaget, as well as  Vygotskyian ideas that have come down to us via Cole &amp; Scribner and Valsiner, require revision in the light of Bruner’s two modes of cognition, and Veresov’s reinterpretation of the theatre movement, within which Vygotsky’s central ideas are embedded.</em></p>

The Black South African Middle Class

2017 ◽  
Vol 43 (6) ◽  
pp. 1313-1314
Author(s):  
Jason Sumich
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
South African ◽  
Black South African

scholarly journals Understanding consumption patterns of the established and emerging South African black middle class

2014 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-56 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ronelle Burger ◽  
Megan Louw ◽  
Brigitte Barbara Isabel de Oliveira Pegado ◽  
Servaas van der Berg
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
South African ◽  
Consumption Patterns ◽  
Black Middle Class ◽  
African Black

scholarly journals A missiological glance at South African Black theology

2010 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kalemba Mwambazambi
Keyword(s):  
South African ◽  
Black Theology ◽  
Political Orientation ◽  
Raw Material ◽  
Biblical Hermeneutics ◽  
South Africans ◽  
Black South African ◽  
Black South Africans ◽  
African Black ◽  
African American Theology

Black South African theologians created South African Black theology during the late 1960s and early 1970s as a conscious and theological dimension of the liberation struggle against apartheid. They drew inspiration from African-American theology, biblical hermeneutics and the raw material of their own experiences and suffering, whilst simultaneously creating a new theological paradigm and political orientation to liberate Black South Africans from apartheid and European domination. Inevitably, South African Black theology was a liberation theology aimed at helping to eradicate the existing socio-political order. This article gave a missiological overview of Black theology and examined and assessed the relevance of this theology to contemporary post-apartheid South Africa. The critical-theological research method was used.

The Irrational Beliefs Inventory: Cross-Cultural Comparisons between South African and Previously Published Dutch and American Samples

2004 ◽  
Vol 95 (3) ◽  
pp. 841-849 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marilize Du Plessis ◽  
André T. Möller ◽  
Henry R. Steel
Keyword(s):  
South African ◽  
Irrational Beliefs ◽  
Ad Hoc ◽  
Rank Order ◽  
Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
African Students ◽  
Black South African ◽  
Psychometric Scales ◽  
African Black

The Irrational Beliefs Inventory gives a measure of irrational beliefs, as postulated by Ellis's Rational Emotive Behavior therapy. Given the increasing cross-cultural use of psychometric scales, it is important to assess whether the psychometric properties of the inventory are consistent across cultures. In the present study cross-cultural applicability, in terms of internal consistency and independence of subscales, was investigated for an ad hoc sample of White ( n = 100, M age = 21.3 yr., SD = 4.0) and Black ( n = 82, M age = 19.8 yr., SD = 2.2) undergraduate South African university students. Cronbach coefficients alpha for the subscales and Pearson correlations between subscales for American and Dutch students, as reported by Bridges and Sanderman, were compared with those indices for the South African students. The magnitude and rank order of Cronbach α, as well as the correlations between subscales for the three groups showed strong similarities. Values of alpha for the Black South African students were lower in magnitude on all subscales than those for American, Dutch, and White South African samples, but intercorrelations between subscale scores were consistent. Findings in the present study are supportive of the cross-cultural applicability of the Irrational Beliefs Inventory to White South African students but not to South African Black students.

scholarly journals Understanding Consumption Patterns of the Established and Emerging South African Black Middle Class

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ronelle Burger ◽  
Megan Louw ◽  
Servaas Van der Berg ◽  
Brigitte Barbara Isabel de Oli Pegado
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
South African ◽  
Consumption Patterns ◽  
Black Middle Class ◽  
African Black

Reframing Xenophobia in South Africa as Colour-Blind: The Limits of the Afro Phobia Thesis

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 433-444
Author(s):  
Amanuel Isak Tewolde
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
South African ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Conflict Theory ◽  
Black African ◽  
South Africans ◽  
Theoretical Perspectives ◽  
Online Newspaper ◽  
Close Proximity ◽  
Realistic Conflict Theory

Many scholars and South African politicians characterize the widespread anti-foreigner sentiment and violence in South Africa as dislike against migrants and refugees of African origin which they named ‘Afro-phobia’. Drawing on online newspaper reports and academic sources, this paper rejects the Afro-phobia thesis and argues that other non-African migrants such as Asians (Pakistanis, Indians, Bangladeshis and Chinese) are also on the receiving end of xenophobia in post-apartheid South Africa. I contend that any ‘outsider’ (White, Asian or Black African) who lives and trades in South African townships and informal settlements is scapegoated and attacked. I term this phenomenon ‘colour-blind xenophobia’. By proposing this analytical framework and integrating two theoretical perspectives — proximity-based ‘Realistic Conflict Theory (RCT)’ and Neocosmos’ exclusivist citizenship model — I contend that xenophobia in South Africa targets those who are in close proximity to disadvantaged Black South Africans and who are deemed outsiders (e.g., Asian, African even White residents and traders) and reject arguments that describe xenophobia in South Africa as targeting Black African refugees and migrants.

The Socio-Economic Challenges of South African Indigenous Musicians: A Case Study of Venda-Based Vho-Ntshengedzeni Mamphodo

2019 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
N G Mugovhani ◽  
Lebogang Lance Nawa
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
South African ◽  
Empirical Data ◽  
Cultural Policy ◽  
Qualitative Case Study ◽  
Arts Management ◽  
Black South African ◽  
Indigenous Music ◽  
Entire Country

This article discusses and raises awareness about the socio-economic plight of indigenous musicians in South Africa. Through a qualitative case study of the Venda musician, Vho-Talelani Andries Ntshengedzeni Mamphodo, dubbed the “Father of mbila music,” the article highlights the fact that the welfare of Black South African artists, particularly indigenous musicians in South Africa, is generally a precarious affair. Their popularity, at the height of their careers, sometimes masks shocking details of exploitation, neglect, and the poverty they are subjected to, which are exposed only after they have died. Empirical data identifies this as a symptom of, among other things, cultural policy and arts management deficiencies in the promotion of indigenous music. The article aims to find ways to redress this unfortunate situation, which is partially a product of general apathy and scant regard that these artists have perennially been subjected to, even by their own governments, as well as some members of their societies. All these factors mentioned are compounded by ignorance on the part of South African artists. Part of the objective of this study was to establish whether the exposition of the Vhavenda musicians is a typical example of all Black South African indigenous musicians and, if this is the case, whether the suggested ways to redress this unfortunate situation could contribute to or play a role in alleviating the plight of such artists in the entire country.

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