scholarly journals Assessment in multicultural groups: The South African case

2004 ◽  
Vol 30 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
A. J. R. Van De Vijver ◽  
S. Rothmann
Keyword(s):  
South African ◽  
The South ◽  
Employment Equity ◽  
Psychometric Instruments ◽  
Key Concepts ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Multicultural Assessment ◽  
New Instruments

It is argued that the 1998 Employment Equity Act, in which the onus of the proof to demonstrate the adequacy of psychometric instruments is on psychology as a profession, creates daunting tasks, but also creates unique opportunities. Recent developments in the assessment of multicultural groups are described, with an emphasis on procedures to enhance the validity of measures for all groups involved and on procedures to examine validity. Bias and equivalence are treated as key concepts in multicultural assessment. Four kinds of procedures for dealing with multicultural assessment (namely, establishing equivalence of existing instruments, defining new norms, developing new instruments, and studying validity-threatening factors in multicultural assessment) are described and illustrated. Opsomming Daar word geredeneer dat die Wet op Billike Indiensneming, 1998, waarvolgens die onus om die geskiktheid van psigometriese instrumente te bewys na psigologie as professie verskuif, nie net oorweldigende take nie maar ook unieke geleenthede skep. Onlangse ontwikkelings rakende die evaluering van multikulturele groepe word beskryf, met die klem op prosedures om die geldigheid van metings vir alle groepe te verhoog en op prosedures om hierdie geldigheid te ondersoek. Sydigheid en ekwivalensie word as sleutelkonsepte in multikulturele evaluering behandel. Vier soorte prosedures om multikulturele evaluering te hanteer (te wete bepaling van die ekwivalensie van bestaande instrumente, definiëring van nuwe norme, ontwikkeling van nuwe instrumente en ‘n studie van faktore wat die geldigheid van multikulturele evaluering bedreig) word beskryf en geïllustreer.

scholarly journals Reconciliation, Forgiveness and Violence in Africa: Biblical, Pastoral and Ethical Perspectives.

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 523-525
Author(s):  
Demaine Solomons
Keyword(s):  
South African ◽  
South African Context ◽  
The South ◽  
Key Concepts ◽  
African Context ◽  
To Come ◽  
Systemic Nature ◽  
Ethical Perspectives

There is no shortage of scholarly contributions grappling with the key concepts of “reconciliation” and “forgiveness” as it pertains to the African and more poignantly the South African context. These notions have a longstanding, yet, contested history and evokes an array of responses ranging from cheering enthusiasm to utter despondency. This contestation has to be understood in relation to the various forms of historical violence inflicted on the peoples of Africa as well as ongoing debates concerning the need to come to terms with the systemic nature of such violence. For the most part, reconciliation and forgiveness and its seemingly contradictory relationship with violence elicit further debates. The question thus remains: at the intersection of ethics and theology, how does one engage such complexity in a way that is distinct from what we have seen and heard before?

scholarly journals Recent developments in South African Jesus research: From Andrie du Toit to Willem Vorster

1993 ◽  
Vol 49 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
A. G. Van Aarde
Keyword(s):  
South African ◽  
North American ◽  
Historical Research ◽  
Historical Jesus ◽  
African Studies ◽  
The South ◽  
Recent Developments

Besides the introductory remarics this area report consists of five sections, published in two articles: ‘From Andrie du Toit to Willem Vorster’ and ‘From Willem Vorster to Andries van Aarde’. As part of the introductory remarks the titles of various articles that recently appeared on the South African scene are brought together in the first article. With respect to Du Toit, the overview focuses inter alia on an evaluation of his p re view of historical Jesus research in the light of the results of recent North American and South African studies. Vorster’s contribution is discussed according to two themes: the epistemology of ‘post-critical’ historical research and the presuppositions regarding the ‘Jewishness’ of Jesus.

Bibliographical Progress in South Africa 1967-1968

1969 ◽  
Vol 12 (03) ◽  
pp. 305-314
Author(s):  
Reuben Musiker
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
South African ◽  
The State ◽  
The South ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Interim Period

This is a two-year survey of bibliographical work completed in the Republic of South Africa. Recent developments in current and retrospective national bibliography are outlined. The South African National Bibliography has been mechanised and good progress has been made with the retrospective volume for 1926-1958. Attention is drawn to the State Library's work on the documentation of banned books. Catalogues of important collections completed are briefly described, and recent developments in the field of periodical lists and indexes are outlined. Special attention is paid in the review to Africana indexes and bibliographies. The author concludes that despite lacunae which remain to be filled, the bibliographical scene in South Africa is satisfactory and full of promise. This review, like its forerunner covers a two-year period and is based on information derived from a questionnaire sent to the major libraries of South Africa. The interim period has also been covered to some extent by a number of informal bibliographical progress reports published in the South African Library Association Newsletter.

A Survey of African Material in the Libraries and Archives of Protestant Missionary Societies in England

1981 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
pp. 277-307 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maidel Cason
Keyword(s):  
South African ◽  
The South ◽  
Christian Missions ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
History Of ◽  
African Writer ◽  
Unique Source ◽  
Missionary Societies ◽  
The Individual ◽  
African Missions

The libraries and archives of mission societies provide rare, often unique, source material concerning the last two centuries of African history. The following survey of Protestant mission societies in England is based on a survey done in 1970. In 1978 letters were written to all societies listed in order to update the material. Replies were received from twenty-one. When no information was received in 1978 this has been indicated in the text. Bibliographical and reference material has also been updated. Included for each of the societies covered is a list of the areas where the society worked in Africa, the types of material held, the mission periodicals produced and notes about access.There are two guides available which cover some of the groups considered. Rosemary Keen's A Survey of the Archives of Selected Missionary Societies (1968) describes the archives of nineteen societies. It is very uneven in coverage and includes a number of inaccuracies. A Guide to Manuscripts and Documents in the British Isles Related to Africa compiled by Noel Matthews and M. Doreen Wainwright was published in 1971 based on a survey done in 1965. It covers eleven of the societies listed here and the extent of coverage is indicated in the individual sections.Early in this century a South African writer attempted to cover all of African missions south of the Sahara. Du Plessis' A History of Christian Missions in South Africa (1911) and his Evangelization of Pagan Africa (1929) are carefully done, detailed accounts from the South African viewpoint. In 1958 Gerdener continued the coverage of South African work with his Recent Developments in the South African Mission Field.

Investigating measurement invariance in the South African Personality Inventory: English version

2019 ◽  
Vol 50 (2) ◽  
pp. 274-289
Author(s):  
Nadia Morton ◽  
Carin Hill ◽  
Deon Meiring ◽  
Fons JR van de Vijver
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Measurement Invariance ◽  
South African ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Personality Inventory ◽  
The South ◽  
Employment Equity ◽  
Modelling Analysis ◽  
Ethnocultural Groups ◽  
Official Languages

We are interested in the psychometric properties of the South African Personality Inventory, a personality measure developed to apply equally to speakers of all official languages in South Africa, by testing for measurement invariance across the four ethnocultural groups in South Africa. We conducted an exploratory structural equation modelling analysis to eliminate any restrictions on the variables and to allow them to covary. While measurement invariance was found on configural and metric levels, scalar invariance was not found. The results advance the aim of the South African Personality Inventory to comply with stipulations in South Africa’s Employment Equity Act regarding fair and unbiased assessments.

Gender inequality in the South African labour market: Insights from the Employment Equity Act data

Agenda ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 33 (4) ◽  
pp. 44-61
Author(s):  
Gabriel Espi ◽  
David Francis ◽  
Imraan Valodia
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
South African ◽  
Gender Inequality ◽  
The South ◽  
Employment Equity

scholarly journals Parodies of whiteness: Die Antwoord and the politics of race, gender, and class in South Africa

2020 ◽  
Vol 49 (1) ◽  
pp. 115-147
Author(s):  
Ian Bekker ◽  
Erez Levon
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
South African ◽  
The Political ◽  
The South ◽  
The Social ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
New Nation ◽  
Politics Of Race ◽  
And Gender

AbstractThe dramatic reconfiguration of the social, political, and ideological order in South Africa since 1990/1994 has demanded a concomitant reconceptualization of (white) Afrikaner notions of self and belonging in the (new) nation. In this article, we draw on recent developments in the study of varidirectional voicing (polyphony), performance, and mediatization to examine how the South African rap-rave group Die Antwoord makes use of parody and metaparody in their music to critique emerging ‘new Afrikaner’ identities and the racial, class, and gender configurations on which they are based. We also discuss the structural limits of these critiques and the political potential of (meta)parodic performance more generally. ((Meta)parody, polyphony, performance, race, class, gender, South Africa)*

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