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Searchlight South Africa: a Marxist Journal of Southern African Studies Vol
Searchlight South Africa: a marxist journal of Southern African studies Vol. 2, No. 7 http://www.aluka.org/action/showMetadata?doi=10.5555/AL.SFF.DOCUMENT.PSAPRCA0009 Use of the Aluka digital library is subject to Aluka’s Terms and Conditions, available at http://www.aluka.org/page/about/termsConditions.jsp. By using Aluka, you agree that you have read and will abide by the Terms and Conditions. Among other things, the Terms and Conditions provide that the content in the Aluka digital library is only for personal, non-commercial use by authorized users of Aluka in connection with research, scholarship, and education. The content in the Aluka digital library is subject to copyright, with the exception of certain governmental works and very old materials that may be in the public domain under applicable law. Permission must be sought from Aluka and/or the applicable copyright holder in connection with any duplication or distribution of these materials where required by applicable law. Aluka is a not-for-profit initiative dedicated to creating and preserving a digital archive of materials about and from the developing world. For more information about Aluka, please see http://www.aluka.org Searchlight South Africa: a marxist journal of Southern African studies Vol. 2, No. 7 Alternative title Searchlight South Africa Author/Creator Hirson, Baruch; Trewhela, Paul; Ticktin, Hillel; MacLellan, Brian Date 1991-07 Resource type Journals (Periodicals) Language English Subject Coverage (spatial) Ethiopia, Iraq, Namibia, South Africa Coverage (temporal) -
MOTHER of the NATION: Saint and Sinner
MOTHER OF THE NATION: Saint and Sinner By Isaac Otidi Amuke ‘‘They set up my father as the saint and set up my mother as the sinner,’’ Zindzi Mandela is quoted saying about her famous parents in Pascale Lamche’s film Winnie. Of all front-row ANC freedom fighters – men and women – Winnie Madikizela-Mandela was singled out as the only leader to appear before South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) in her personal capacity, where she was implored by Desmond Tutu o apologise to the country for whatever might have gone wrong under her watch. Tutu had argued then that her confession would be good for the country. The ANC employed the use of violence during the anti-apartheid struggle, including deploying bombs in strategic government installations, some of which exploded and killed the wrong targets. It was widely held – and as stated by ANC stalwart Ahmed Kathrada during a BBC HardTalk interview – that some bombings were carried out by unruly ANC cadres. These crimes were pegged not on individuals but on the ANC, which sent senior representatives to the TRC to either explain and defend its position or to apologise. The same collective leniency of being represented by the ANC was not extended to Madikizela-Mandela. The liberation sins attributed to her and those around her were placed squarely at her feet, prominent among them being the 1989 killing of 14-year-old Moeketsi “Stompie” Seipei, who was suspected of being a police informer. ‘‘The one person who kept the fire burning when everyone was petrified,’’ Madikizela-Mandela said of her essential if lonely and thankless role in the anti-apartheid struggle in Lamche’s film, a moment in which moment her eyes got watery. -
Native Foreigners’
From ‘Foreign Natives’ to ‘Native Foreigners’ Contents, Neocosmos2.pmd 1 29/04/2010, 17:26 Contents, Neocosmos2.pmd 2 29/04/2010, 17:26 From ‘Foreign Natives’ to ‘Native Foreigners’ Explaining Xenophobia in Post-apartheid South Africa Citizenship and Nationalism, Identity and Politics Michael Neocosmos Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa Contents, Neocosmos2.pmd 3 29/04/2010, 17:26 First published under the CODESRIA Monograph Series, 2006 © CODESRIA 2010 Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa, Avenue Cheikh Anta Diop, Angle Canal IV BP 3304 Dakar, 18524, Senegal Website: www.codesria.org All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopy, recording or any information storage or retrieval system without prior permission from CODESRIA. ISBN: 978-2-86978-307-2 Layout: Hadijatou Sy Cover Design: Ibrahima Fofana Printed by: Graphi plus, Dakar, Senegal Distributed in Africa by CODESRIA Distributed elsewhere by the African Books Collective, Oxford, UK. Website: www.africanbookscollective.com The Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA) is an independent organisation whose principal objectives are to facilitate research, promote research-based publishing and create multiple forums geared towards the exchange of views and information among African researchers. All these are aimed at reducing the fragmentation of research in the continent through the creation of thematic research networks that cut across linguistic and regional boundaries. CODESRIA publishes a quarterly journal, Africa Development, the longest standing Africabased social science journal; Afrika Zamani, a journal of history; the African Sociological Review; the African Journal of International Affairs; Africa Review of Books and the Journal of Higher Education in Africa. -
Afric~ Hope ,~~1~
SOUTH AFRIC~ I FAITH· HOPE &LOVE ,~~1~ E:f-~ fzPn1 titL d4du ~ 1-~ /'IS'~ PtUA4L-~~ i!J'!- t VA~ Wiu-n#A<J .. · . r~ 'PA-4~~4-... ~. ~,AI-Y ~~~ ~lifU- r~, ~ (1'j StrUn-~ ~ ~~A.t.U~· ~ ~cl. ~ u/. ~~~ ;(~"F~ ~ ~~ During the summer of 1988 my wife and I spent five ' weeks in Cape Town and its environs while I served as exchange pastor of the Central Methodist Mission, a church formed by the recent merger of an all-white congregation and an essentially "coloured" congregation. Following the exchange period, we spent an additional month travelling throughout Namibia and South Africa getting to know the people and the apartheid situation in other parts of the country. We do not claim to be experts on South Africa. We did see the South Africa which tourists see and listened to those carefully screened South Africans whom the government presents to tourists as representative voices of their country. We also saw a South Africa very few tourists see and which, in fact, very few South African whites see. Most whites there never get into townships (black• "coloured" and Indian communities) and know people of color only as their servants. At my co~issioning by presbytery I was charged to learn what the conditions were in South Africa, what challenges the church of Jesus Christ was facing there, how it was responding to those challenges, and what the future looked like. I was also charged to bring back the story to our presbytery and to its churches. This diary/journal is part of my fulfillment of that charge. -
PDF Hosted at the Radboud Repository of the Radboud University Nijmegen
PDF hosted at the Radboud Repository of the Radboud University Nijmegen The following full text is a publisher's version. For additional information about this publication click this link. http://hdl.handle.net/2066/177429 Please be advised that this information was generated on 2021-10-04 and may be subject to change. The fndings from this study go beyond biblical-theological scholarship on forgiveness. Dion Forster boldly succeeds in showing that creating conditions for deeper human connection transforms impossibility into possibility and shines a light on the face of “the Other”, who can now be forgiven. he (im)possibility Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela, Professor and Research Chair of Historical Trauma and Transformation, Stellenbosch University Dion Forster refuses to accept the conclusion that understandings of forgiveness may be so different and complex across social, racial and cultural groups in South Africa that actual of Forgiveness? forgiveness may be impossible. Using Matthew 18:15-35 as a meeting ground, he gathers ordinary Methodist Christians for cross cultural, intergroup Bible reading. He draws upon the philosophical AN EMPIRICAL INTERCULTURAL BIBLE READING OF MATTHEW 18:15-35 integral theory of Ken Wilber, the insights of intergroup contact theory and the methods of critical biblical exegesis to organize, analyse and understand this encounter. What emerges is a hopeful conclusion that difering conceptions of forgiveness – its challenges and possibilities – can be understood, shared and perhaps, actualized across social, racial and cultural barriers.” Bruce C. Birch, Dean and Professor of Biblical Theology, Wesley Theological Seminary Reading Dion Forster on the (im)possibility of forgiveness, I was once again struck by our desperate need to learn more about ourselves and one another, but also about the meaning of forgiveness in our respective communities. -
Call for Critical Engagement – Study Document’
Foreword Dear friends Below you will find ‘A call for critical engagement – study document’. 145 people have endorsed this Call since Monday 17 October and we now distribute it as widely as possible. During the process of receiving endorsements technical problems resulted in the loss of certain names. We apologize to those affected and hope that you will resend your name. This document should not be seen as conclusive but as an invitation to an ongoing conversation. Since Monday some of the endorsers made critical and important contributions. In addition to what the Call currently articulates, we acknowledge that further attention should be given to the facts that the church is present on all campuses in the widest sense of the word – management, lecturers, workers, students and security staff – and we acknowledge our pastoral responsibility to care for everyone equally in a time of conflict, tension, polarization and uncertainty; the Call in its current format does not speak adequately and directly enough to government – calling it to provide leadership at a time such as this and to cease from fuelling further polarization. We also realize that much of what is contained in this Call needs deeper collective reflection and the diverse insights of both those who have endorsed it and many others who did not yet have a chance. Therefore this is an invitation to go on deep journeys together in times to come. Over the next days we would like to explore possible ways in which engagement can take concrete shape. Any suggestions or thoughts can be emailed to [email protected]. -
Two Hundred Years of Methodism! a Black Theological Inquiry Into the Heritage of Methodism in Southern Africa 1816-2016
TWO HUNDRED YEARS OF METHODISM! A BLACK THEOLOGICAL INQUIRY into THE HERitage OF METHODISM IN SOUTHERN AFRICA 1816-2016 Ndikho Mtshiselwa Department of Biblical and Ancient Studies University of South Africa [email protected] ABSTRACT A proverb of the Yoruba people of Nigeria says: ‘However far a stream flows, it never forgets its origin.’ The proverb gives credence to the epochal stories of the human race, and more importantly of the Methodist people in Southern Africa. This article evaluates the history of Methodist people in Southern Africa in the period 1816-2016 from a black theological perspective. First, the paper describes the black theological perspective from which the inquiry into the story of the Methodist Church of Southern Africa (MCSA) is approached, a perspective which is based on the philosophy of black consciousness, the black liberation theology and Methodist theology. Second, the article offers a black theological reflection on selected figures in the history of the MCSA. As a way of concluding, the article considers the prophetic implications of the heritage of Methodism in the MCSA for the Methodist people today. Keywords: Methodism; philosophy of black consciousness; black liberation theology; John Wesley; Sefako M. Makgatho; Peter J. Storey; Purity Malinga. INTRODUCTION The Yoruba proverb ‘However far a stream flows, it never forgets its origin’ highlights the importance of history in both foregrounding an understanding of the present, and navigating the future. Based on the proverb, this article sets out to reflect on aspects of South African church history, specifically on 200 years of the Methodist Church university of south africa Studia Historiae Ecclesiasticae DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.17159/2412-4265/2016/1248 Volume 42 | Number 3 | 2016 | pp. -
L “Mandela United Football Club” E Altre Mascherate Africane – Di
http://www.riscossacristiana.it/il-mandela-united-football-club-altre-mascherate- africane-di-roberto-dal-bosco/ Riscossa Cristiana - 10 dicembre 2013 l “Mandela United Football Club” e altre mascherate africane – di Roberto Dal Bosco Storia di un terrorista razzista, dei suoi colleghi, di crudeltà tribali, di legami internazionali, di interessi inconfessabili… di Roberto Dal Bosco Il necklacing, il modello di esecuzione per combustione tramite cui Vinnie Mandela intendeva «purificare la nazione». La regina-strega e le collane della morte Lo chiamavano così, aggiungendo il nome Mandela a quello della squadra più amata d’Inghilterra – perché, nonostante tutto, gli africani vanno pazzi per il calcio inglese. Ma anche se in teoria il Mandela United Football Club (MUFC) era una squadra, non giocava a pallone: era il gruppo deputato alla sicurezza di Vinnie Mandela, la seconda moglie di Nelson. In pratica, le SS della famiglia Mandela. Nel 1989 Vinnie ordinò al MUFC di rapire quattro bambini neri che erano ospitati a casa di un pastore protestante bianco, Paul Verryn. In presenza di Vinnie, i quattro furono picchiati sino a che non “confessarono” che erano stati abusati sessualmente dal reverendo. Al processo, molti anni dopo, Vinnie disse infatti che non li aveva rapiti, ma solo portati via temendo che il pastore fosse pedofilo. Peccato che uno dei quattro bimbi, il quattordicenne Stompe Moeketsi, fu trovato poi semisepolto con la gola squarciata: era, qualcuno aveva detto, un informatore. 1 Il dott. Abu-Baker Asvat, un medico di famiglia che visitò il bambino a casa di Vinnie, venne poi trovato ucciso da una pistolettata poco dopo. -
GIBS Forums 2018
GIBS Forums 2018 13 FEBRUARY Winning Through People > Leslie Benson is a senior managing director in the Strategic Communications segment at FTI Consulting and is based in London. 28 FEBRUARY Water as a Business Risk and Opportunity in light of Day Zero > Amit Lev is the Trade & Investment Consul, head of the Economic Mission at the Israeli embassy in South Africa. > Kevin James founded GCX (then Global Carbon Exchange) in 2006 and as CEO drives innovation across the company’s significant client base. > Prof Anthony Turton is a political scientist with 24 years of strategic-level experience, Anthony Turton specialises in transboundary water resource management. 7 MARCH FREE Gauteng Provincial Breakfast EVENT > Barbara Creecy – Gauteng MEC for finance. 8 MARCH White Collar Crime Why they do it > Professor Michael Katz is chairperson of ENSafrica. > Kgomotso Moroka is Senior Counsel at the Thulamela Chambers. > Bonang Mohale was, until his new BLSA appointment, vice president upstream and the chairman of Shell downstream South Africa (Pty) Limited; Shell South Africa Holdings (Pty) Ltd; Shell South Africa Refinery (Pty) Ltd and South African Petroleum Refinery (SAPREF). > Mark Lamberti is the chief executive at Imperial. > Rob Rose is the editor of the Financial Mail, and author of ‘The Grand Scam’ about how Barry Tannenbaum constructed SA’s largest-ever Ponzi scheme. > Eugene Soltes is the Jakurski Family Associate Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. 1 | FORUM CALENDAR www.gibs.co.za 14 MARCH Nigeria Economic Outlook 2018 > Ambassador Ahmed Musa Ibeto took up his role as High Commissioner to South Africa. > Honourable Godwin Adama is currently Nigeria’s Consul General to South Africa. -
Contextual Theology; Skills and Practices of Liberating Faith
The authors of this volume have taken contextual theologising to a new level. While each essay is rooted in its own particular context – South Africa, Costa Rica, northern Finland, India, parts of Europe – each is also rooted in a World Christianity, postcolonial, and postmodern context as well. They demonstrate that contextual theologising needs to be and is indeed an integral, guiding perspective of any theologising today. –Stephen Bevans, SVD, Louis J. Luzbetak, SVD Professor of Mission and Culture, Emeritus, Catholic Theological Union, Chicago, United States By focusing “on those modes of doing theology that place and celebrate the context at the centre of the praxis of theology”, this book dares to call everyone who is preoccupied by God-talk to be able to put into words their daily encounters with the divine. It acknowledges what people of faith from all walks of life, especially the indigenous people with their rich experiences of the Divine, have always known and lived as theologians of life – even when the so-called classical Christian dogmatic theologies ignored or undermined their existence. In this age of the Anthropocene, this book calls us once again to listen to the heartbeat of the Creator. This heartbeat is indeed experienced by humanity and creation as a whole in their situatedness. S/He calls us to live in respect of compassionate service to our interconnectedness and interdependence. The theologies contained in this book espouse the importance of our diverse identities living, reflecting, and engaging in praxis for justice, dignity and peace so that all the inhabited earth can live in a kinship of diverse species in a living cycle orchestrated by the communion of the Creator, Sustainer, and Redeemer, Three in One. -
Muslim Portraits: the Anti-Apartheid Struggle
Muslim Portraits: The Anti-Apartheid Struggle Goolam Vahed Compiled for SAMNET Madiba Publishers 2012 Copyright © SAMNET 2012 Published by Madiba Publishers University of KwaZulu Natal [Howard College] King George V Avenue, Durban, 4001 No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, electrostatic, magnetic tape, or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage or retrieval system, without written permission from the publisher. First Edition, First Printing 2012 Printed and bound by: Impress Printers 150 Intersite Avenue, Umgeni Business Park, Durban, South Africa ISBN: 1-874945-25-X Graphic Design by: NT Design 76 Clark Road, Glenwood, Durban, 4001 Contents Foreword 9 Yusuf Dadoo 83 Faried Ahmed Adams 17 Ayesha Dawood 89 Feroza Adams 19 Amina Desai 92 Ameen Akhalwaya 21 Barney Desai 97 Yusuf Akhalwaya 23 AKM Docrat 100 Cassim Amra 24 Cassim Docrat 106 Abdul Kader Asmal 30 Jessie Duarte 108 Mohamed Asmal 34 Ebrahim Ismail Ebrahim 109 Abu Baker Asvat 35 Gora Ebrahim 113 Zainab Asvat 40 Farid Esack 116 Saleem Badat 42 Suliman Esakjee 119 Omar Badsha 43 Karrim Essack 121 Cassim Bassa 47 Omar Essack 124 Ahmed Bhoola 49 Alie Fataar 126 Mphutlane Wa Bofelo 50 Cissie Gool 128 Amina Cachalia 51 Goolam Gool 131 Azhar Cachalia 54 Halima Gool 133 Firoz Cachalia 57 Jainub Gool 135 Moulvi Cachalia 58 Hoosen Haffejee 137 Yusuf Cachalia 60 Fatima Hajaig 140 Ameen Cajee 63 Imam Haron 142 Yunus Carrim 66 Enver Hassim 145 Achmat Cassiem 68 Kader Hassim 148 Fatima Chohan 71 Nina -
THE TRIAL of WINNIE MANDELA Paul Trewhela
THE TRIAL OF WINNIE MANDELA Paul Trewhela A Change in Perceptions The prosaic spirit of the 1990s has torn the veil from the most glamourized iconography of the 1980s. In the trial of Winnie Mandela, the recent past of the African National Congress is displayed in a manner to write finis to many of the heroic myths of the period when her husband and his colleagues defied the apartheid regime in the Rivonia Trial, 27 years earlier. Then, the mystique of revolutionary violence was exalted as the antidote to the all-saturating violence of the state. Now, the balance-sheet of the past three decades of nationalist politics is drawn up, and payment must be made. This was recognized outside the courtroom before being recognized in it. The law imitated life. As the once putative First Lady of a future South Africa, Winnie Mandela was repudiated by members of her own organization before she was convicted by the white judiciary. In finding her guilty of the kidnap ping of four black youths and as accessory to their assault, the verdict of the court followed an implied act of censure by a major section of the ANC membership, which decided a week earlier by 400 votes to 196 against electing Mrs Mandela to the presidency of the ANC Women's League. This election result, an index to ANC affairs in the second year after its unbanning, was not merely a prophylactic against political contamination. It followed the open denunciation of Mrs Mandela by the most influential members and sup porters of the ANC within the country in February 1989, a year before its unbanning.