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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... -
Delegitimisation of Disliked Political Organisations Through Biased Language and Acronyming
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Tadios Chisango --- University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa Calvin Gwandure --- University of the Witwatersrand, South AfricaThe study investigated the use of biased language and acronyming in political organisations in South Africa and Zimbabwe. The study surveyed the discourses of political parties that were posted on the internet. Thematic content analysis was used to analyse the... -
Does conflict increase vulnerability to HIV infection? Issues for a research agenda
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Janet GruberMuch action has been taken in the last ten years to prevent and mitigate HIV infection in times of conflict, yet two fundamental questions remain unanswered: Does conflict always and everywhere increase vulnerability to HIV infection, and are women and... -
The making of vulnerabilities: understanding the differentiated effects of HIV and AIDS among street traders in Warwick Junction, Durban, South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: May Chazan Alan WhitesideThe end of apartheid in South Africa has led to political-economic transition, the deregulation of cities, and increased population mobility, with growing numbers of people living and working in sub-standard and 'informal' urban conditions. These processes have created a fertile... -
Embodied history. Uniqueness and exemplarity of South African AIDS
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Didier Fassin --- ,The exceptionality of AIDS in South Africa, both for its epidemiological features and public controversies, seems to have its correspondence in the exceptionalism of South African history, with its unprecedented regime of apartheid and its unexpected turn to democracy. The... -
Church mobilisation and HIV/AIDS treatment in Ghana and Zambia:a comparative analysis
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: AmyS. Patterson --- Department of Political Science, United StatesThis article compares Ghanaian and Zambian church mobilisation on HIV and AIDS. It analyses why long-term interest in HIV and AIDS has declined in Ghana but increased in Zambia, and why church involvement in promoting access to HIV/AIDS treatment has... -
The rise and fall of HIV prevalence in Zimbabwe: the social, political and economic context
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Stephen O'Brien --- School of Social Science, Australia Alex Broom --- School of Social Science, AustraliaFor more than 10 years Zimbabwe has experienced social, political and economic instability, including the near collapse in 2008 of its health system. Paradoxically, this period has also seen a fall in estimated HIV prevalence, from 25.6% in 1996 to... -
Water policy in southern Africa: A brief synopsis of some of the macro driving forces
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Aquatic Science • Authors: AR TurtonThe water sector reforms that are underway in many parts of southern Africa are a manifestation of a global phenomenon. This is rooted in the human response to the undesirable consequences of development, and seeks to introduce the notion of... -
Cognitive dissonance as an explanation of the genesis, evolution and persistence of Thabo Mbeki's HIV denialism
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Chris KenyonThe ongoing damage that the newer forms of HIV denialism are visiting upon our country is evidenced by the recent firing of Nozizwe Madlala-Routledge, the South African Deputy Minister of Health. It is widely believed that the underlying reason for... -
Daniel arap Moi and the politics of HIV and AIDS in Kenya, 1983–2002
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Samwel Ong'wen Okuro --- Department of History, KenyaThe contrasting outcomes to HIV/AIDS prevention and mitigation processes in sub-Saharan Africa have not been adequately investigated or explained. Specifically, few scholars have attempted to root the responses to HIV and AIDS within the socio-economic and political realities of those... -
Developing and implementing global gender policy to reduce HIV and AIDS in low- and middle -income countries: Policy makers’ perspectives
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Shannon Olinyk --- University of Michigan Columbus, USA Andrew Gibbs --- Health Economics and HIV/AIDS Research Division (HEARD), South Africa Catherine Campbell --- Institute of Social Psychology, London School of Economics and Political Science, UKGender inequalities have been recognised as central to the HIV epidemic for many years. In response, a range of gender policies have been developed in attempts to mitigate the impact and transform gender relations. However, the effects of these policies... -
Most at-risk populations: contextualising HIV prevention programmes targeting marginalised groups in Zanzibar, Tanzania
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Naheed Ahmed --- Department of Anthropology, FloridaAccording to a 2009 UNAIDS report the HIV/AIDS prevalence rate in Zanzibar, Tanzania, is low in the general population (0.6%), but high among vulnerable groups, specifically sex workers (10.8%), injecting drug users (15.1%), and men who have sex with men... -
The Female Condition as Double Incarceration in Wambui Otieno's Mau Mau's Daughter
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies • Authors: Ken Walibora Waliaula --- Nation Media Group (NMG), KenyaFocusing on Kenyan freedom fighter Wambui Otieno's narrative Mau Mau's Daughter 1998), this article discusses the interplay between incarceration and the female condition. It bears clarifying that Otieno's narrative of confinement was written and published forty years after the fact... -
Political intolerance: the role of intergroup threat and negative intergroup emotion
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Melina Ojiambo --- Department of Psychology, South Africa Johann Louw --- Department of Psychology, South AfricaThis study investigated whether the perception of intergroup threat, and intergroup emotion, are related to political intolerance. One hundred and twenty three South African undergraduate students (females = 76%; males = 24%; White = 65%; Coloured = 24%; Indian = 8%; Chinese = 2%; mean age = 19.8, SD = 3.03 years) were randomly assigned... -
Four principles of South African political culture at the local level
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Robert Thornton --- Department of Anthropology,Standard models of political thought derived from Liberal, Democratic and Classical models of political theory do not appear to fully comprehend the structure and processes of political action and culture at the local-level in South Africa. I present a concise... -
Imfobe: self-knowledge and the reach for ethics among former, young, anti-apartheid activists
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Pamela Reynolds --- Department of Anthropology, USAThe paper explores the reach for ethics among young people engaged in opposition to the apartheid state in the 1980s. Structured around the Xhosa concept imfobe, variously translated as morality, virtue, goodness, grace, the paper seeks to locate young peoples'... -
Reconsidering displacement in southern Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Chris de Wet --- Department of Anthropology, South AfricaIn the light of developments in the southern African region over the last number of years, the paper argues for a reconsideration, and an extension, of the way in which the concept of ‘displacement’ has conventionally been understood. It considers... -
Mangrove reforestation: greening or grabbing coastal zones and deltas? Case studies in Senegal
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Aquatic Science • Authors: MC Cormier-Salem --- IRD, UMR PALOC, Senegal J Panfili --- IRD, UMR MARBEC, FranceBesides their important contribution to global biodiversity, mangroves provide many services. Nevertheless, due to an increase of human activities and to climate change, in less than 20 years these ecosystems have lost one fifth of their global surface area. In... -
Casts, bones and DNA: interrogating the relationship between science and postcolonial indigeneity in contemporary South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Katharina Schramm --- Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, GermanyThis paper discusses the articulation and complex enactment of postcolonial indigeneity, commonly referred to as Khoesan revivalism in contemporary South Africa. Through a close examination of the “substances of indigeneity,” i.e. body casts, human remains and DNA, it interrogates the... -
(Re)politicising and (re)positioning prevention: community mobilisations and AIDS prevention in the new AIDS era
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Imara Ajani Rolston --- Department of Social Psychology & Centre for the Study of Human Rights, United KingdomAn increasing focus on the relationship between AIDS prevalence and socio-economic inequality signals the need for a revaluation of the role of “politics” and “power” in AIDS prevention. This revaluation bears great significance when considering the future trajectories of the... -
Political Risk and Chinese Outward Foreign Direct Investment to Africa: The Role of Foreign Aid
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Africa Journal of Management • Authors: Jane Lu --- Department of Management and Marketing, Faculty of Business and Economics, Australia Xueli Huang [cor1] Michael Muchiri --- School of Management, RMIT University, AustraliaWe investigated the role of Chinese Aid in mitigating the political risk for Chinese outward foreign direct investment (OFDI) in Africa, especially in resource-abundant countries. Using panel data for 50 African countries that have received Chinese OFDI from 2002 to... -
Democracy as technopolitical future: delivery and discontent in a government settlement in the South African countryside
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Bernard Dubbeld --- Department of Sociology and Anthropology, South AfricaThis paper is concerned with how democracy is understood and experienced in a KwaZulu-Natal municipal administration and one of the settlements it governs. Considering that democracy has a range of popular meanings, and that in South Africa it has been... -
Unemployment experiences in context: A phenomenological study in two townships in South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Melinda du Toit --- Optentia Research Focus Area, South Africa Hans De Witte --- Optentia Research Focus Area, South Africa Sebastiaan Rothmann --- Optentia Research Focus Area, South Africa Anja Van den Broeck --- Optentia Research Focus Area, South AfricaThis study aimed to explore the unemployment experience of residents of a historically disadvantaged South African neighbourhood. Informants were twelve black community members (females = 75%; age ranges: 20 to 29 = 58.3%, and 30 to 39 = 33.3%). Individual interviews were conducted with the participants... -
Supervisor developmental feedback and employee performance: The roles of feedback-seeking and political skill
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Weilin Su --- School of Labor and Human Resources, China Bei Lyu --- Chinese Graduate School, Thailand Yanjun Liu --- School of Labor and Human Resources, China Hui Chen --- Chinese Graduate School, Thailand Jiayu Fan --- School of International Education, ChinaThe present study investigated the positive influence of supervisor developmental feedback on employee performance through feedback-seeking, as well as the moderating role of political skill. Employees (n = 327, females = 59.6%) of a high-tech company completed measures of supervisor... -
The politics of corporate social responsibility in the mining industry in Burkina Faso
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Africa Journal of Management • Authors: Rabake Kinba Hermelline M. Nana --- Huddersfield Business School, United Kingdom Eshani Beddewela --- Huddersfield Business School, United KingdomThis paper examines the non-market strategy of a multinational corporation in an institutionally weak country, specifically focusing on its corporate social responsibility. Theoretically, the paper argues that the motives and outcomes of corporate social responsibility could facilitate corporate political activity,... -
Care, contagion and the good mother: narratives of motherhood, tuberculosis and healing
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Ziyanda Majombozi --- School of African and Gender Studies, Anthropology and Linguistics, South AfricaSouth Africa is reported as one of the countries with a high burden of tuberculosis (TB). In response to the epidemic, the country’s national Department of Health attempted to improve access to health care and TB treatment with a variety... -
Celebrity Politics, Political Cynicism and Contestations of Credibility in Lucius Banda’s Songs
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies • Authors: Syned Mthatiwa --- Department of English, MalawiLucius Banda is one of the renowned popular musicians in Malawi. His songs explore a wide range of political and social issues. In 2003 he joined the United Democratic Front (UDF) party and decided to run for parliament representing Balaka... -
Contesting the Subaltern Narrative: The Trickster Trope in the Kenyan Political Autobiography
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies • Authors: Stephen Mutie --- , KenyaThis article is a critique of the idea of subalternity 1 as it is used in the Kenyan political autobiographies of leaders who have reigned but never ruled. 2 The study is largely located within postcolonial theory, with particular emphasis... -
Persistent essentialism in Polish nationalist discourse: a Wittgensteinian critique
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Witold Jacorzynski --- , MexicoEssentialism, an erroneous way of thinking that can be traced to classical philosophy, assumes a thing to hold necessary intrinsic characteristics. Such thinking has been commonly employed for a popular understanding of bounded groups of people, establishing imaginary communities and... -
Employee followership predispositions: Their perceptions of narcissistic traits in supervisors
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Jianjia He --- , China Shengmin Liu --- , China Jianbo Liu --- , China Thi Hoai Thuong Mai --- , ChinaWe investigated the relationship between employee perceptions of narcissistic supervision and employee followership. Further, we investigated the influences of employee proactive personality, self-efficacy, political skill, and team political climate on said relationship. Data were from 383 employees of a large... -
Managerial ties and access to finance in weak institutional contexts: Does CEO duality matter?
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Africa Journal of Management • Authors: Tahiru Azaaviele Liedong --- , UK Tazeeb Rajwani --- , UKThough managerial ties are substitutes for the weak market-supporting institutions in developing and emerging countries, little is known about the contingent value of these ties in credit markets. In this study, we disintegrate managerial ties into political and financial ties,... -
Presidential communication approaches and the impact on public health: a comparative analysis of three South African presidents’ communication on AIDS and COVID-19
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Nompumelelo Gumede --- University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa Emma Durden --- University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa Eliza Govender --- University of KwaZulu-Natal, South AfricaThe HIV response in the African continent over past decades demonstrates the potency that the words and actions of political leaders have in either expediting or impeding the implementation and adoption of preventive measures at the individual and community levels... -
The quest(ion) of Leaning Towards a Liberal Historiography in Edgar Tekere’s A Lifetime of Struggle (2007) and Cephas Msipa’s In Pursuit of Freedom and Justice: a Memoir (2015)
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies • Authors: Walter Kudzai Barure --- , South AfricaZimbabwe’s historiography is commonly confined to a singular narrative that glorifies the deeds of a few prominent figures while sidelining the contributions and perspectives of other political actors. This paper redirects the narrative focus by examining Edgar Tekere’s A Lifetime... -
Tourism resilience in Iran: navigating sanctions, diplomacy and emerging opportunities
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Masood Khodadadi --- University of the West of Scotland, United KingdomThe re-election of Donald Trump as the 47th president of the United States in 2024 marks a significant shift in US-Iran relations, with far-reaching consequences for Iran’s tourism sector. This brief report examines the potential impact of Trump’s foreign policy,... -
Ukufundiswa kwemibhalo yobuciko emakilasini esiZulu ngenhloso yokufundisa abafundi ngekhono lokuhlaziya izinkinga zomphakathi
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of African Languages • Authors: Nokuthula Ntombenhle Mbata --- University of KwaZulu-Natal, School of Education, Language and Media Studies, Sicelo Ziphozonke Ntshangase --- University of KwaZulu-Natal, School of Education, Language and Media Studies,Inhloso yale athikili ukubheka ukufundiswa kwemibhalo yobuciko emakilasini esiZulu ngenhloso yokufundisa abafundi ngekhono lokuhlaziya izinkinga zomphakathi. Lolu wucwaningo oluyikhwalithethivu, olwethulwa ngendlela esakuxoxa, kusetshenziswa ipharadayimi esakuhumusha. Ucwaningo lubeka ukuthi ukulahlekelwa yisimilo, ubuqili nokungathembeki kuwumthelela wokwehluleka kwesikole, othisha kanye nomphakathi ukutshala ubuntu... -
Political commitment, Science, Technology, and Innovation (STI) policy design and sustainable development: Lessons from Nigeria
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development • Authors: Olawale Rafiu Olaopa --- Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, Kingdom of Saudi ArabiaScience, Technology and Innovation (STI) is significant from the perspective of ‘Global Agenda of 2030’ and for realizing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) for enhanced productivity and value addition that can accelerate the competitiveness of a nation. However, the seemingly... -
Ukuphithikeza nokugxobha ingcingane yeelwimi zaseAfrika njengeelwimi ezenziwa ubunkcubabuchopho
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of African Languages • Authors: Simthembile Xeketwana --- Stellenbosch University, South AfricaIilwimi zaseAfrika kudala zaba nobungqondi kwaye obo bungqondi kumele bugqobhozele kwiindlela ezi lwimi ezisetyenziswa ngayo, ncakasana kumaziko emfundo ephakamileyo. Ngoko ke, iilwimi zaseAfrika aziqalanga ukuba nobungqondi emva kowe1994, okanye ukufika kwamamishinari kweli lo Mzantsi Afrika, neAfrika iphela. Ngokukhokelwa yinkcazobungcali yasemva...