[PDF] Situating South Africas Past Present And Future John W Forje eBook

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These books are in fact indicative of the state of intellectual maturity and discourse in the country; the determination to develop and properly utilise human capital resources, the state of freedom and quality of publishing which few African countries can march. [...] He points out the importance of the political economy of language: "in order to get rid of the myth of purity and essentialism that are crippling FORJE: BOOK REviEWS 187 successful dialogue, it is necessary to embrace variety and process in their place." The paper by Ruth Teer-Tomaselli looks at the relationship between the public broadcaster, the public, the nation and the state and problematises. [...] Tiyo Soga embodied the paradox of the civilising mission, personified the modernising influence of the missionary enterprise, but was also an indictment of the supposed moral virtue of the colonial establishment. [...] Generally, the papers, individually and collectively, present an overview of the changing dynamics of the political, economic and social landscape of the new South Africa, drawing implications for policy articulation FORJE: BOOK REviEWS 191 in the second decade of the country's post-apartheid governance system. [...] Third, the role of information and knowledge networks was severely undermined for the 70 percent of the unemployed, as the employed and union 194 AFRicAn SOciOLOGicAL REviEW members were predominantly located in the middle-to-upper end of the expenditure distribution.

Author : Forje, John W.
Publisher : Langaa RPCIG
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 26,84 MB
Release : 2019-08-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9956550957

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The ever growing disparity in living standards between the developed and developing polities constitutes a striking feature of life on Planet Earth. This publication is an attempt to highlight some of the factors dividing the worlds apart. A new North-South synergy is needed in creating a balanced world at peace with itself. As long as more than half-the population of the world go to bed hungry there can be no peace. A sting rich world and a sting poor world cannot cohabit peacefully. How to build a more equitable and balanced world is the challenge facing us. We need to embrace and practice our long-aged concepts of ‘ubuntu’, ‘harambee’ and ‘batho pele’ among others in creating, and consolidating the new world order. Africa is underdeveloped. It requires serious structural modification in our current mindset, thinking and actions which calls for total involvement of every citizen. The ideas advanced in this book are strategies and pathways for dealing with the problems of poverty, corruption, the distribution of power, deterrence, good governance, health, human capacity building and the challenge of bringing about a systemic structural-functional governance construct for the African continent.

Author : Jacqueline Ki-Zerbo
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 16,48 MB
Release : 1990
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520066960

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"This volume covers the period from the end of the Neolithic era to the beginning of the seventh century of our era. This lengthy period includes the civilization of Ancient Egypt, the history of Nubia, Ethiopia, North Africa and the Sahara, as well as of the other regions of the continent and its islands."--Publisher's description

Author : David A. McDonald
Publisher : Zed Books
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 33,24 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Business & Economics
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There has been a dramatic shift worldwide from welfare municipalism - where the state both subsidized and provided essential municipal services - to a neoliberal vision of balanced budgets, fiscal restraint and privatization. Cost recovery is at the heart of this new municipal vision with far reaching implications for access to services, affordability and privatization. This book brings together a theoretical and empirical review of the impact of cost recovery on basic municipal services such as water, refuse collection and electricity, with particular reference to South Africa. It describes the theory and practice of cost recovery and presents six case studies drawing on participatory and ethnographic research. The final chapter examines alternative future possibilities, reformist or equity-oriented.

Author : M. Eze
Publisher : Springer
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 18,34 MB
Release : 2016-04-30
Category : History
ISBN : 0230109691

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In examining the intellectual history in contemporary South Africa, Eze engages with the emergence of ubuntu as one discourse that has become a mirror and aftermath of South Africa s overall historical narrative. This book interrogates a triple socio-political representation of ubuntu as a displacement narrative for South Africa s colonial consciousness; as offering a new national imaginary through its inclusive consciousness, in which different, competing, and often antagonistic memories and histories are accommodated; and as offering a historicity in which the past is transformed as a symbol of hope for the present and the future. This book offers a model for African intellectual history indignant to polemics but constitutive of creative historicism and healthy humanism.

Author : Wim M. J. van Binsbergen
Publisher : African Dynamics
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 25,61 MB
Release : 2004
Category : History
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This volume should be of great value to all readers interested in the study of cultural globalization from the perspectives of anthropology, philosophy, cultural studies, political science and international relations."--Jacket.

Author : V. Y. Mudimbe
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 29,52 MB
Release : 1994-11-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780253208729

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"... this is a remarkable book. It will occupy a significant place in the critical literature of African Studies." --International Journal of African Historical Studies "To read Mudimbe is to walk through a museum of many exhibits in the company of an erudite companion who explains, with much learned commentary, what you are seeing." --American Anthropologist "Mudimbe's sympathetic yet rigorous accounts of such diverse Africanist discourses as Herskovits's cultural relativism and contemporary Afrocentricity bring to the surface the underlying goals and contexts in which these were produced." --Ivan Karp A sequel to his highly acclaimed The Invention of Africa, this is V. Y. Mudimbe's exploration of how the "idea" of Africa was constructed by the Western world.

Author : Lars Buur
Publisher : HSRC Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 40,16 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Africa, Southern
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The link between security and development has been rediscovered after 9/11 by a broad range of scholars. Focusing on Southern Africa, the Security-Development Nexus shows that the much debated linkage is by no means a recent invention. Rather, the security/development linkage has been an important element of the state policies of colonial as well as post-colonial regimes during the Cold War, and it seems to be prospering in new configurations under the present wave of democratic transitions. Contributors focus on a variety of contexts from South Africa, Mozambique and Namibia, to Zimbabwe and Democratic Congo; they explore the nexus and our understanding of security and development through the prism of peace-keeping interventions, community policing, human rights, gender, land contests, squatters, nation and state-building, social movements, DDR programmes and the different trajectories democratization has taken in different parts of the region.

Author : Laura Anne German
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 435 pages
File Size : 11,14 MB
Release : 2009-12-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1136545514

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Many countries around the world are engaged in decentralization processes, and most African countries face serious problems with forest governance, from benefits sharing to illegality and sustainable forest management. This book summarizes experiences to date on the extent and nature of decentralization and its outcomes - most of which suggest an underperformance of governance reforms - and explores the viability of different governance instruments in the context of weak governance and expanding commercial pressures over forests. Findings are grouped into two thematic areas: decentralization, livelihoods and sustainable forest management; and international trade, finance and forest sector governance reforms. The authors examine diverse forces shaping the forest sector, including the theory and practice of decentralization, usurpation of authority, corruption and illegality, inequitable patterns of benefits capture and expansion of international trade in timber and carbon credits, and discuss related outcomes on livelihoods, forest condition and equity. The book builds on earlier volumes exploring different dimensions of decentralization and perspectives from other world regions, and distills dimensions of forest governance that are both unique to Africa and representative of broader global patterns. The authors ground their analysis in relevant theory while drawing out implications of their findings for policy and practice.

Author : V. Y. Mudimbe
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 20,30 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780852552032

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What is the meaning of Africa and of being African? What is and what is not African philosophy? Is philosophy part of Africanism? These are the kind of fundamental questions which this book addresses. North America: Indiana U Press