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Non-Racialism in South Africa
0R295,00At the time of his death in August 2012 Neville Alexander was undoubtedly one of South Africa’s foremost proponents of the philosophy of non-racialism. He had devoted his life to fighting against the evils of racism, sexism and economic injustice. He understood how these social realities not only divided but also ranked human beings in terms of human worth and value. He saw how these realities diminished the whole society, both the perpetrators and victims. And so he gave over his life as a scholar and a political activist to challenging these realities.
This volume brings together the reflections of a group of activists and scholars on the significance of Neville Alexander to the cause of freedom and justice in South Africa. The reflections are essentially the keynote speeches and the responses to them that were made at a conference in Alexander’s honour held at the Centre for Non-Racialism and Democracy at the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University in July 2013.
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Non-racialism in South Africa
0R0,00At the time of his death in August 2012 Neville Alexander was undoubtedly one of South Africa’s foremost proponents of the philosophy of non-racialism. He had devoted his life to fighting against the evils of racism, sexism and economic injustice. He understood how these social realities not only divided but also ranked human beings in terms of human worth and value. He saw how these realities diminished the whole society, both the perpetrators and victims. And so he gave over his life as a scholar and a political activist to challenging these realities.This volume brings together the reflections of a group of activists and scholars on the significance of Neville Alexander to the cause of freedom and justice in South Africa. The reflections are essentially the keynote speeches and the responses to them that were made at a conference in Alexander’s honour held at the Centre for Non-Racialism and Democracy at the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University in July 2013.
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Noordwaartse Beweging van die Boere voor die Groot Trek (1770-1842)
0R360,00Hierdie reeks van 4 historiese boeke deur P.J. van der Merwe herleef weer deur middel van digitale druk-tegnologie. Die oorpronklike boeke is geskandeer en is nou beskikbaar in druk- en PDFformaat, as ‘n stel of individueel.Die ander boeke in die reeks is Die Noordwaartse Beweging van die Boere voor die Groot Trek (1770’1842) en TREK – Studies oor die Mobiliteit van die Pioniersbevolking aan die Kaap (1770’1842).
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On Record
0R0,00Popular Afrikaans music artists have done well in post-apartheid South Africa and enjoy the enthusiastic support of loyal fans. This support is fuelled by a complex set of emotions linked to “e;being Afrikaans”e; in a culturally pluralistic society. In On Record, van der Merwe investigates the interplay between popular music and the unfolding of Afrikaans culture politics from the start of the twentieth century to the present. It includes a search for the earliest recorded Afrikaans songs and documents subsequent phases of music development that reflect the agency of ordinary individuals – artists and listeners – against a background of fundamental societal and political change. It regards both the music mainstream and the alternative, and reveals, among other things, historical cases of compliance and resistance regarding the master narrative of Afrikaner nationalist ideology, the attempts by cultural entrepreneurs to establish authority over popular Afrikaans culture, class tension, lasting racial exclusivity, protest and censorship, and the post-apartheid invocation of Afrikaner nostalgia and white victimhood. Ultimately, On Record provides an uninterrupted account, and a critique, of the entire history of recorded popular Afrikaans music up to the present.
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On Record
0R435,00Popular Afrikaans music artists have done well in post-apartheid South Africa and enjoy the enthusiastic support of loyal fans. This support is fuelled by a complex set of emotions linked to ?being Afrikaans? in a culturally pluralistic society. In On Record, van der Merwe investigates the interplay between popular music and the unfolding of Afrikaans culture politics from the start of the twentieth century to the present. It includes a search for the earliest recorded Afrikaans songs and documents subsequent phases of music development that reflect the agency of ordinary individuals – artists and listeners – against a background of fundamental societal and political change. It regards both the music mainstream and the alternative, and reveals, among other things, historical cases of compliance and resistance regarding the master narrative of Afrikaner nationalist ideology, the attempts by cultural entrepreneurs to establish authority over popular Afrikaans culture, class tension, lasting racial exclusivity, protest and censorship, and the post-apartheid invocation of Afrikaner nostalgia and white victimhood. Ultimately, On Record provides an uninterrupted account, and a critique, of the entire history of recorded popular Afrikaans music up to the present.
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On Strategy
0R315,00The literature on the art of war over centuries presupposed that the decision maker was a single entity with a coherent and unitary political will. The ideal strategy maker was thus Alexander the Great, or a Napoleon. Little was written on the policy- and strategy-making process when there were multiple decision makers. Strategy in peace was recognized especially in the Cold War as something just as real as strategy war.
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On the way to the best possible science
0R265,00The road to the best possible science runs along all kinds of ondulary paths of peer evaluation with the preferences, assumptions, prejudices and convictions of the evaluating readers. It runs over the bumpy roads of ideological preferences and obstinacies that are mostly negatively affected (muddled) by the urge for power and money of institutional and political botching, so that any pure outcome will be difficult to achieve. There are also all sorts of detours and side tracks, inspired by the obsession with instant solutions, reductionistic and absolutising oversimplifications of the full multiple reality, and the complex knowledge world, but above all by the intriguing fickleness of impulsive and ever-present fallible human beings. With this in mind, the best possible science, as emphasised in this publication, can never be defined in any final sense, nor can it ever without any doubt be achieved, although this remains our firm ideal.
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Onderweg na die beste moontlike wetenskap
0R265,00Die roete na die beste moontlike wetenskap gaan langs allerlei kronkelwee van ewekniebeoordeling met die voorkeure, aannames, vooroordele en oortuigings van die beoordelende lesers.
Die boek behels n ondersoek van interdissiplinere en filosofiese aard na die geldigheid en probleme met ewekniebeoordeling, beleidsake wat wetenskapkwaliteit mag bedreig of bevorder, n soeke na die beste maniere om wetenskap wel te bevorder en die voorwaardes waaraan so n aktiwiteit behoort te voldoen, en n alternatief vir die beoordelingstelsel met sterk beklemtoning van kommunikasie deur die hele proses heen.
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Onderweg- ‘n musiekstorie van 40 jaar
0R295,00Jannie du Toit vertel die verhaal van sy opwindende loopbaan in Afrikaanse musiek. Foto’s, koerantknipsels en briewe illustreer die verhaal van ligte Afrikaanse musiek wat veertig jaar gelede nog in kinderskoene was, tot waar Jannie vandag ‘n legende in die Afrikaanse musiekbedryf is.
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Ons ongehoorde soort
0R340,00Die opstelle in die boek gee erkennning aan Antjie Krog se veelsydigheid as skrywer deurdat dit ondersoek instel na die werk wat Krog op die gebied van die poasie, prosa en vertaling doen. Daar word aandag gegee aan belangrike temas in haar werk en rekenskap gegee van bepaalde ontwikkelinge in haar oeuvre. Die fokus val op haar verhouding met die literore tradisie waarbinne sy skryf, haar interaksie met vroulike literore voorgangers en vroue uit die Suid-Afrikaanse geskiedenis, haar bemoeienis met die transformasies van identiteit binne die Suid-Afrikaanse en Afrika-konteks, haar pogings om deur vertaling die ruimte van Afrikaans uit te brei en haar gedurfde hantering van vroulike liggaamlikheid.
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Oom Bey for the Future
0R265,00EOLook towards the future not as a disaster but as a challenge, not as a problem, but as an opportunity … we have a common future: live, work, build together.O
Beyers Naud
A Future Beyond Apartheid
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Opera in Cape Town: The Critic’s Voice
0R290,00The writings of art critics voicing their opinions on opera in newspaper reviews have charted a unique performance history of opera in Cape Town. In post-apartheid South Africa, these critical voices have particularly engaged in public discourse around the transformation of opera as an art form amidst a myriad of socio-political shifts in the country. This book traces the trajectory of these discourses and initiates a conversation on the development of a distinctly South African operatic expression and aesthetic in the 21st century. These published perspectives of art critics, who reviewed opera for the local daily newspapers Cape Times and Die Burger from the 1980s until now, portray the transformational power of opera in a country burdened by a history of colonialism and apartheid but determined to showcase a democratic Orainbow nationO on stage. Themes covered in the book include the dominance of Western European opera as a measure of taste, blackness on the operatic stage, the transformation of opera after apartheid, the Africanisation and localisation of opera, and the performance of indigenous South African operas.
