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How does anybody live in this strange place? A reply to Samantha Vice
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of Philosophy • Authors: David Benatar --- Philosophy Department, South Africa c/oSamantha Vice has argued that ‘white’ South Africans are so tainted by the history of racial oppression in their country that they are incapable of attaining a great degree of moral virtue. She recommends that they should live in humility... -
Untold Stories of a Group of Black South Africans about the Apartheid Era
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Ernst J. van der Merwe --- North-West University (Potchefstroom Campus), South Africa Chris A. Venter --- North-West University (Potchefstroom Campus), South Africa Q. Michael Temane --- North-West University (Potchefstroom Campus), South AfricaThe aim of this research was to explore the alternative stories of a group of black adults who survived the apartheid years in South Africa. It was surmised that the lives of many of the black adults who experienced the... -
A Group of Black South Africans' Experience of Telling their Untold Stories about the Apartheid Era
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Jacques Vermeulen --- North-West University, South Africa Chris A. Venter --- North-West University, South Africa Q. Michael Temane --- North-West University, South Africa Ernst J. van der Merwe --- North-West University, South AfricaThe aim of this research was to explore a group of black South Africans' experiences of telling their untold stories of survival about the apartheid era. The expectation was that if they did become more aware of these alternative stories,... -
Exploring Young Black Persons' Narratives About the Apartheid Past
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Cheryl Petersen --- North-West University (Potchefstroom Campus), South Africa Chris Venter --- North-West University (Potchefstroom Campus), South Africa Karel Botha --- North-West University (Potchefstroom Campus), South AfricaThis study examined intergeneration narratives about the apartheid past through the retelling of 14 young black South Africans aged 16 to 21 (males =6, females =8). A qualitative categorical-content data analysis underpinned by social constructionism, explored these secondary narrative segments... -
Science, transformation and society: a contextual analysis of South Africa’s SANCOR-managed marine and coastal research programmes
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Marine Science • Authors: D Scott --- School of Built Environment and Development Studies, Howard College Campus, South AfricaThe paper aims to describe and analyse three research programmes over the period 1995–2011 managed by the South African Network for Coastal and Oceanic Research (SANCOR), namely the Sea and Coast programmes I and II and the Society, Ecosystems and... -
Public holidays as lieux de mémoire: nation-building and the politics of public memory in South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Sabine Marschall --- Cultural and Heritage Tourism Programme, South AfricaThis article engages with public holidays in post-apartheid South Africa as lieux de mémoire, ‘sites of memory’ that preserve particular interpretations of historical events and selected heroes for inscription into the collective memory of the nation. It first traces the... -
Just living: genealogic, honesty and the politics of apartheid time
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Kathleen Lorne McDougall --- Department of Anthropology, South Africa“We were just living,” I was told of growing up an Afrikaner as apartheid was born. Is it possible for living at this time to be anything but political? To say “we were just living” of being an Afrikaner at... -
Generational forgiveness and historical injustices: perspectives of descendants of victims of Apartheid-era gross human rights violations in South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Cyril K. Adonis --- Department of Interdisciplinary Research, College of Graduate Studies, South AfricaThis study explored the issue of generational forgiveness in the political sphere in contemporary South Africa. It is based on qualitative interviews conducted with 20 children and grandchildren (females = 10, males = 10) of victims of Apartheidera gross human rights violations. The interview... -
Case pending: practices of inclusion and exclusion in a class of plaintiffs
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Rita Kesselring --- Institute of Social Anthropology, University of Basel, SwitzerlandApartheid victims have had a difficult standing in South Africa in the years that followed the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC). In the government's perspective, the TRC had conclusively dealt with apartheid victimhood. Consequently, when victims turned to US courts... -
Land is for people—experiences of the community of Khuis
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: PA Erasmus --- Department of Anthropology,This study is an investigation into the social history of the Tlharo, with the aim of articulating and clarifying the particular nature of their experiences in respect of land-related issues. Their circumstances are described against the background of the course... -
From exposé to care: Preliminary thoughts about shifting the ethical concerns of South African social anthropology
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Andrew Spiegel --- Department of Social Anthropology, South AfricaSocial anthropologists working in South Africa during the late apartheid period expressed their abhorrence of the apartheid system in the preamble to the association that they formed. Many set as their goal the work of ‘exposé anthropology’, using anthropology to... -
The end of culture? Some directions for anthropology at the University of Pretoria
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: John Sharp --- Department of Anthropology and Archaeology,This is the text of on inaugural lecture as Professor of Anthropology and Head of the Department of Anthropology and Archaeology at the University of Pretoria delivered on 19 October 2004. Several changes have been made to the text to... -
The possibility of a critical anthropology after apartheid: relevance, intervention, politics
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Kelly Gillespie --- University of Pretoria, Anthropology and Archaeology, South Africa Bernard Dubbeld --- University of Pretoria, Anthropology and Archaeology, South AfricaThis paper, prompted by an Anthropology Southern Africa conference around the theme ‘Public Anthropology’, argues that any post-apartheid anthropology that abandons criticality as a core disciplinary principle risks dispelling any radical content that anthropology may have to offer South African... -
Shoveling sand or changing the nation?: transformation activism in Cape Town
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Catherine Besteman --- Department of Anthropology, -
Racism as epithet in the context of post-apartheid's demographic parity goals
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Andrew Spiegel --- University of Cape Town,Nearly twenty years after the capitulation of the apartheid state, South Africa's post-apartheid government continues to find it necessary to seek means to direct change in the demographic profile of the country's leading institutions towards a situation where it reflects... -
The burden of responsibility and the breakdown of traditional paternalism on farms in the Western Cape
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Handri Walters --- Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology, South AfricaThe transition that followed the 1994 democratic election in South Africa brought with it a host of progressive legislation aimed at the provision of a secure environment for those previously marginalised. The Extension of Security of Tenure Act (ESTA) (1997)... -
Public holidays as lieux de mémoire: nation-building and the politics of public memory in South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Sabine Marschall --- Cultural and Heritage Tourism Programme, South AfricaThis article engages with public holidays in post-apartheid South Africa as lieux de mémoire, ‘sites of memory’ that preserve particular interpretations of historical events and selected heroes for inscription into the collective memory of the nation. It first traces the... -
Church rules? The lines of ordentlikheid among Stellenbosch Afrikaners
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Annika Teppo --- Nordic Africa Institute, SwedenEthnographic accounts of South African moral codes have mostly focused on so-called black and coloured areas, while the ideals and practices of white people have remained largely invisible and undiscussed. In the post-apartheid era, Afrikaners’ everyday religious practices as well... -
The familiar labyrinth: practicing urban disorientation in post-apartheid Cape Town
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Giovanni Spissu --- Department of Social Sciences, United KingdomIn this article, I discuss how urban disorientation can be used in ethnographic research as an investigative tool to explore the city. In particular, I examine how urban disorientation can be taken as an ethnographic tactic with the purpose of... -
Nostalgia in the post-apartheid state
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Amber R. Reed --- Anthropology and Africana Studies Departments, USAIn this article, I join recent theorists in furthering an “anthropology of nostalgia,” seeking connections between disparate parts of the globe through a shared sense of loss in the face of global capitalism and liberal democracy. Highlighting contemporary work, I... -
Private and public collective self-esteem among black and white South African students
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Tsholofelo A. Thomas --- Department of Psychology, South AfricaThis study explored the salience of ethnic public and private collective self-esteem among South African students contrasting by race. Participants were 89 black and 55 white undergraduate students (93 females, 51 males; mean age: 20 years). They completed two subscales... -
The fathers of Destiny: Representations of fatherhood in a popular South African magazine
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Bertrand Leopeng --- Department of Psychology, South Africa Malose Langa --- Department of Psychology, South AfricaThis study utilised textual analysis to characterise the representation of fatherhood in the eight issues of Destiny Man magazine published in 2014. Stories that pertained to fatherhood and that were related to aspects of contemporary family construction, work, and identity... -
Double vision and suspended conversations: reconstituting landscapes of memory in Port Elizabeth, South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Naomi Roux --- Department of Architecture and Planning, South AfricaBetween 1968 and 1975, the neighbourhood of South End in Port Elizabeth underwent a traumatic process of destruction as its residents were forcibly removed under the Group Areas Act and the suburb was razed. This paper traces some of the... -
Belonging, Memory and Subaltern Voices: Reflecting on Sindiwe Magona’s To my Children’s Children
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies • Authors: Puleng Segalo --- , South AfricaFor many black people, the act of writing and expressing one’s thoughts was an exercise of resistance and defiance, one that often meant risking losing one’s freedom or one’s life. Sindiwe Magona’s works challenge the commonly held assumption that writing... -
The socio-ecology of childcare in Apartheid South Africa: Retrospective experiences of a sample of caregivers
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Jené Pretorius --- , South Africa Carinne Annfred Lorraine Petersen --- , South Africa Athena Pedro --- , South AfricaWe sought to retrospectively understand current caregivers’ childhood experiences of apartheid in South Africa. A sample of eight caregivers (black = 3, white = 2, mixed race = 3; age range = 29 to 55 years) took part in the... -
Caregivers of early adolescent children: Influences of their apartheid experiences on their intergenerational learning practices
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Jené Pretorius --- , South Africa Carinne Annfred Lorraine Petersen --- , South Africa Athena Pedro --- , South AfricaThis study aimed to explore the experiences of apartheid that South African caregivers share with their early-adolescent children. Utilising a qualitative exploratory inquiry approach, we interviewed eight participants (male = 1; age range: 29–55 years old; black = 3; coloured... -
Urbanization and housing development in South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development • Authors: Simona Totaforti --- , ItalyThe South African urban system is a significant testbed for the analysis of urban forms in emerging economies. On the one hand, the urbanization processes have similar characteristics to those found elsewhere in the world, while on the other they... -
Afrikaner networks for volksdiens: Stellenbosch volkekundiges, 1926–1997
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: C.S. (Kees) van der Waal --- Stellenbosch University, South AfricaSeveral critical exposés of volkekunde at Stellenbosch University have focused on dominant figures up to the 1960s but have not sufficiently considered how they engaged with Afrikaner nationalism. This article introduces questions around solidarity, discontinuity and dissent amongst volkekundiges up... -
Policing the (post)colonial body: The Covid-19 lockdown in South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Amber Reed --- , United States of America Ziyanda Xaso --- , South AfricaIn March 2020, South Africa enacted one of the world’s most severe lockdowns to combat the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. Whilst this action received international praise, its implementation by the armed security forces in many ways mirrored colonial and apartheid-era controls on... -
Exploring the interplay of local language(s) and transformation to facilitate communication and change in (South) Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of African Languages • Authors: Mogomme Alpheus Masoga --- University of the Free State, South Africa Allucia Lulu Shokane --- University of Zululand, South AfricaThis research explores local language(s) and transformation as key facilitators of a dynamic interplay between the power of communication and the capacity for change. It is argued that language serves as a multifaceted tool that not only conveys thoughts and...