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Student protest and the culture of violence at African universities: An inherited ideological trait
(The South African Society for History Teaching (SASHT) under the auspices of the School of Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2017)
Since the advent of independence in African countries, education generally focused on transforming these nations and redressing the ills of colonialism. Education in countries like Ghana, and Kenya, amongst others aimed ...
A transdisciplinary approach to understanding the causes of wicked problems such as the violent conflict in Rwanda
(North-West University, 2012)
The paper is presented against a background of many wicked problems that confront us
in the world today such as violent crime, conflict that emanates from political power
seeking, contests for scarce resources, the ...
The role of technology in the economic growth of South Africa: The case of frequency allocations to cellular operators
(2007)
Economists associate long-term economic growth with technological progress. Earlier growth
literature, as well as modern literature, states to sustain a positive growth rate of output per
capita in the long run, there ...
Controlling the farmer: colonial and postcolonial irrigation interventions in Africa
(2008)
Aiming at full control over farmer actions was a shared characteristic of colonial irrigation
engineering approaches. However, the way control was sought in African irrigation
projects was different from Asian colonies. ...
The world of spirits and the respect for nature: towards a new appreciation of animism
(2006)
The belief in spirits has diminished in Western thought since Enlightenment.
But it has not disappeared totally. In the subconscious of people and in different
subcultures and also in literature and art it is still alive. ...
Hominisation and humanisation: a perspective from the sociology of technics
(Department of Philosophy, University of Pretoria, 2006)
This essay will present a few challenges to a new Humanism from the
perspective of the sociology of technics. For this purpose Humanism will be described
as an effort to intervene in the process of human formation or ...
What is the Future of Polygyny (Polygamy) in Africa?
(NWU, 2017-11-06)
The traditional practice of polygyny, whereby only a man is allowed to marry more than one wife in a customary marriage, has long been perceived to be an offender of women's rights. Recent family law reforms on the African ...
Governance, 'sovereignty-state-territory triad', human population migration and xenophobia in (South) Africa
(2015)
This article seeks to examine the association of the concept of governance of
international relations and, by implication, human population migration, through the
rigid practices of “sovereignty-state-territory triad” ...
Anti-Afrophobia policy shortfall and dilemma in the New Partnership for Africa’s Development and South Africa
(2015)
Since 1994, South Africa witnessed various xenophobic attacks, the two recent ones
leaving over 60 Africans dead in 2008 and 17 in 2015. Xenophobia is an embarrassment
to the new South African Government, which is ...
Reflections on applying critical discourse analysis methodologies in analysing South African history textbooks
(The South African Society for History Teaching (SASHT) under the auspices of the School of Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2015)
This article is a reflection on the choice to apply Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA)
in a large scale study in which South African history textbooks were analysed for
their construction of African consciousness. The ...