Authors:Rachel Bray, Imke Gooskens, Lauren Kahn, Sue Mose
Publisher: Human Sciences Research Council
Keywords: post, apartheid, cape, town, adolescence, childhood, new, south, africa, growing
Number of Pages: 448
Published: 1969-12-31
ISBN-10: 0796923132
ISBN-13: 9780796923134

How has the end of apartheid affected the experiences of South African children and adolescents? This pioneering study provides a compelling account of the realities of everyday life for the first generation of children and adolescents growing up in a democratic South Africa. The authors examine the lives of young people across historically divided communities at home, in the neighbourhoods where they live, and at school. The picture that emerges is one of both diversity and similarity as young people navigate their way through a complex landscape that is unevenly ’post’-apartheid. Historicall

Author: Premesh Lalu
Publisher: Human Sciences Research Council
Keywords: shape, recurring, pasts, africa, south, hintsa, post, apartheid, deaths
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2009-04-01
ISBN-10: 0796922330
ISBN-13: 9780796922335

Following the tracks of South African traditional leader Nicholas Gcaleka, this account explores the reasons for his postapartheid journey to Great Britain as well as the public derision that accompanied him. Arguing that the sources of derision can be found in the modes of evidence established by colonial power, this exploration traces Gcaleka’s search for the remains of the tribal leader Hintsa, who was killed by British troops during the South African colonial period. Calling for a postcolonial critique of apartheid and for new models for writing histories, this reconstruction offers

Author: Vishnu Padayachee
Publisher: Human Sciences Research Council
Keywords: south, africa, change, social, decade, economic, development
Number of Pages: 484
Published: 2007-04-01
ISBN-10: 0796921237
ISBN-13: 9780796921239

Locating the South African challenges within a broader international perspective, this study covers all the major economic growth challanges from employment, industrial policy, urban governance, and the informal economy to the social challenges of poverty, inequality, HIV/AIDS, and health policy. The key development debates of the post-apartheid era are outlined and the success of a decade of reform and experimentation is considered by a wide range of international development specialists, including American economists Gil Hart and Michael Carter; British economist Jonathan Michie; and South A