Phaswane Mpe's Welcome to Our Hillbrow
Total Page:16
File Type:pdf, Size:1020Kb

Load more
Recommended publications
-
City of Johannesburg Ward Councillors: Region F
CITY OF JOHANNESBURG WARD COUNCILLORS: REGION F No. Councillors Party Region Ward Ward Suburbs: Ward Administrator: Name/Surname & Contact : : No: Details: 1. Cllr. Sarah Wissler DA F 23 Glenvista, Glenanda, Nombongo Sitela 011 681- [email protected] Mulbarton, Bassonia, Kibler 8094 011 682 2184 Park, Eikenhof, Rispark, [email protected] 083 256 3453 Mayfield Park, Aspen Hills, Patlyn, Rietvlei 2. VACANT DA F 54 Mondeor, Suideroord, Alan Lijeng Mbuli Manor, Meredale, Winchester 011 681-8092 Hills, Crown Gardens, [email protected] Ridgeway, Ormonde, Evans Park, Booysens Reserve, Winchester Hills Ext 1 3. Cllr Rashieda Landis DA F 55 Turffontein, Bellavista, Lijeng Mbuli [email protected] Haddon, Lindberg Park, 011 681-8092 083 752 6468 Kenilworth, Towerby, Gillview, [email protected] Forest Hill, Chrisville, Robertsham, Xavier and Golf 4. Cllr. Michael Crichton DA F 56 Rosettenville, Townsview, The Lijeng Mbuli [email protected] Hill, The Hill Extension, 011 681-8092 083 383 6366 Oakdene, Eastcliffe, [email protected] Linmeyer, La Rochelle (from 6th Street South) 5. Cllr. Faeeza Chame DA F 57 Moffat View, South Hills, La Nombongo Sitela [email protected] Rochelle, Regents Park& Ext 011 681-8094 081 329 7424 13, Roseacre1,2,3,4, Unigray, [email protected] Elladoon, Elandspark, Elansrol, Tulisa Park, Linmeyer, Risana, City Deep, Prolecon, Heriotdale, Rosherville 6. Cllr. A Christians DA F 58 Vredepark, Fordsburg, Sharon Louw [email protected] Laanglagte, Amalgam, 011 376-8618 011 407 7253 Mayfair, Paginer [email protected] 081 402 5977 7. Cllr. Francinah Mashao ANC F 59 Joubert Park Diane Geluk [email protected] 011 376-8615 011 376-8611 [email protected] 082 308 5830 8. -
Middle Classing in Roodepoort Capitalism and Social Change in South Africa
Middle Classing in Roodepoort Capitalism and Social Change in South Africa Ivor Chipkin June 2012 / PARI Long Essays / Number 2 Contents Acknowledgements ..................................................................................... 3 Preface ........................................................................................................ 5 Introduction: A Common World ................................................................. 7 1. Communal Capitalism ....................................................................... 13 2. Roodepoort City ................................................................................ 28 3.1. The Apartheid City ......................................................................... 33 3.2. Townhouse Complexes ............................................................... 35 3. Middle Class Settlements ................................................................... 41 3.1. A Black Middle Class ..................................................................... 46 3.2. Class, Race, Family ........................................................................ 48 4. Behind the Walls ............................................................................... 52 4.1. Townhouse and Suburb .................................................................. 52 4.2. Milky Way.................................................................................. 55 5. Middle-Classing................................................................................. 63 5.1. Blackness -
Memories of Johannesburg, City of Gold © Anne Lapedus
NB This is a WORD document, you are more than Welcome to forward it to anyone you wish, but please could you forward it by merely “attaching” it as a WORD document. Contact details For Anne Lapedus Brest [email protected] [email protected]. 011 783.2237 082 452 7166 cell DISCLAIMER. This article has been written from my memories of S.Africa from 48 years ago, and if A Shul, or Hotel, or a Club is not mentioned, it doesn’t mean that they didn’t exist, it means, simply, that I don’t remember them. I can’t add them in, either, because then the article would not be “My Memories” any more. MEMORIES OF JOHANNESBURG, CITY OF GOLD Written and Compiled By © ANNE LAPEDUS BREST 4th February 2009, Morningside, Sandton, S.Africa On the 4th February 1961, when I was 14 years old, and my brother Robert was 11, our family came to live in Jhb. We had left Ireland, land of our birth, leaving behind our beloved Grandparents, family, friends, and a very special and never-to-be-forgotten little furry friend, to start a new life in South Africa, land of Sunshine and Golden opportunity…………… The Goldeneh Medina…... We came out on the “Edinburgh Castle”, arriving Cape Town 2nd Feb 1961. We did a day tour of Chapmans Peak Drive, Muizenberg, went to somewhere called the “Red Sails” and visited our Sakinofsky/Yodaiken family in Tamboerskloof. We arrived at Park Station (4th Feb 1961), Jhb, hot and dishevelled after a nightmarish train ride, breaking down in De Aar and dying of heat. -
Our Hillbrow, Not Only to Move in and out of the “Physical and the Metaphysical Sphere[S]” Effectively but Also to Employ a Communal Mode of Narrative Continuity
Introduction ghirmai negash haswane Mpe (1970–2004) was one of the major literary talents to emerge in South PAfrica after the fall of apartheid. A graduate in African literature and English from the Univer- sity of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, he was a nov- elist, poet, scholar, and cultural activist who wrote with extraordinary commitment and originality, both in substance and in form. His intellectual honesty in exploring thematic concerns germane to postapartheid South African society continues to inspire readers who seek to reflect on old and new sets of problems facing the new South Africa. And his style continues to set the bar for many aspiring black South African writers. Mpe’s writing is informed by an oral tradition par- ticular to the communal life of the South African xii Introduction pastoral area of Limpopo. This, in addition to his modern university liberal arts education; his experi- ence of urban life in Johannesburg; and, ultimately, his artistic sensibility and ability to synthesize dis- parate elements, has marked him as a truly “home- grown” South African literary phenomenon. It is no wonder that the South African literary commu- nity was struck by utter shock and loss in 2004 when the author died prematurely at the age of thirty- four. In literary historical terms, Mpe’s early death was indeed a defining moment.I n an immediate way, his South African compatriots—writers, critics, and cultural activists—were jolted into awareness of what the loss of Mpe as a unique literary fig- ure meant for South African literary tradition. In terms of his legacy, it was also a moment of acute revelation that the force and form of his work was a motivating influence for, just as it was inspired by, the emergence of many more writers of consider- able talent. -
A Case Study on South Africa's First Shipping Container Shopping
Local Public Space, Global Spectacle: A Case Study on South Africa’s First Shipping Container Shopping Center by Tiffany Ferguson BA in Dance BA Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Urban America Hunter College of the City University of New York (2010) Submitted to the Department of Urban Studies and Planning in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master in City Planning at the MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY June 2018 © 2018 Tiffany Ferguson. All Rights Reserved The author hereby grants to MIT the permission to reproduce and to distribute publicly paper and electronic copies of the thesis document in whole or in part in any medium now known or hereafter created. Author____________________________________________________________________ Department of Urban Studies and Planning May 24, 2018 Certified by_________________________________________________________________ Assistant Professor of Political Economy and Urban Planning, Jason Jackson Department of Urban Studies and Planning Thesis Supervisor Accepted by________________________________________________________________ Professor of the Practice, Ceasar McDowell Department of Urban Studies and Planning Chair, MCP Committee 2 Local Public Space, Global Spectacle: A Case Study on South Africa’s First Shipping Container Shopping Center by Tiffany Ferguson Submitted to the Department of Urban Studies and Planning on May 24, 2018 in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master in City Planning Abstract This thesis is the explication of a journey to reconcile Johannesburg’s aspiration to become a ‘spatially just world class African city’ through the lens of the underperforming 27 Boxes, a globally inspired yet locally contested retail center in the popular Johannesburg suburb of Melville. By examining the project’s public space, market, retail, and design features – features that play a critical role in its imagined local economic development promise – I argue that the project’s ‘failure’ can be seen through a prism of factors that are simultaneously local and global. -
Apartheid & the New South Africa
Apartheid & the New South Africa HIST 4424 MW 9:30 – 10:50 Pafford 206 Instructor: Dr. Molly McCullers TLC 3225 [email protected] Office Hours: MW 1-4 or by appointment Course Objectives: Explore South African history from the beginning of apartheid in 1948, to Democracy in 1994, through the present Examine the factors that caused and sustained a repressive government regime and African experiences of and responses to apartheid Develop an understanding of contemporary South Africa’s challenges such as historical memory, wealth inequalities, HIV/AIDS, and government corruption Required Texts: Books for this class should be available at the bookstore. They are all available online at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and Half.com. Many are available as ebooks. You can also obtain copies through GIL Express or Interlibrary Loan Nancy Clark & William Worger, South Africa: The Rise and Fall of Apartheid. (New York: Routledge) o Make sure to get the 2011 or 2013 edition. The 2004 edition is too old. o $35.00 new/ $22.00 ebook Clifton Crais & Thomas McLendon: The South Africa Reader: History, Culture, Politics (Duke: 2012) o $22.47 new/ $16.00 ebook Mark Mathabane, Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography – The True Story of a Black Youth’s Coming of Age in Apartheid South Africa (Free Press, 1998) o Any edition is fine o $12.88 new/ $8.99 ebook o On reserve at library & additional copies available Andre Brink, Rumors of Rain: A Novel of Corruption and Redemption (2008) o $16.73 new/ $10.99 ebook Rian Malan, My Traitor’s Heart: A South African Exile Returns to Face his Country, his Tribe, and his Conscience (2000) o $10.32 new/ $9.80 ebook o On reserve at Library Zakes Mda, The Heart of Redness: A Novel (2003) o $13.17 new / $8.99 ebook Jonny Steinberg, Sizwe’s Test: A Young Man’s Journey through Africa’s AIDS Epidemic (2010) o $20.54 new/ $14.24 ebook All additional readings will be available on Course Den Assignments: Reaction Papers – There will be 5 reaction papers to each of the books due over the course of the semester. -
The High Court of South Africa Gauteng Local Division, Johannesburg Criminal Court Recess Trial Roll for the 1St Term Monday 29 March 2021
THE HIGH COURT OF SOUTH AFRICA GAUTENG LOCAL DIVISION, JOHANNESBURG CRIMINAL COURT RECESS TRIAL ROLL FOR THE 1ST TERM MONDAY 29 MARCH 2021 JOHANNESBURG HIGH COURT 1 MONAMA, J COURT REF NUMBER ACCUSED CHARGES REASON ON STATE ADVOCATE DEFENCE STATUS EST 4A 10/2/11/1 THE ROLL COUNSEL DAYS 2017/050 Makgane, Matome Ellias Rape x 3 Trial Adv Ranchhod Ph 13 SS 031/2017 Moswikarang, Daniel Robbery x 4 Douglasdale Leghedima Kidnapping x 4 Bongo, Treasure Assault GHB Mkhwanazi, Themba Attempted Murder Attempted Rape 2020/009 Rampai, Thabang Victor Rape x 6 Sentence Adv Mokwatedi Ph 1 SS 068/2020 Attempted Murder Roodepoort Robbery with Aggravating circumstances 2018/020 Moyo, Mthobisi Leave to Appeal Adv Maphiri 1 SS 090/2018 Hillbrow VUMA, AJ COURT REF NUMBER ACCUSED CHARGES REASON ON STATE ADVOCATE DEFENCE STATUS EST 4B 10/2/11/1 THE ROLL COUNSEL DAYS 2019/087 Khan, Moshin Kidnapping x 2 Trial Adv Mokwatedi Ph 6 SS 097/2019 Buyan, Abu Taher Robbery Johannesburg Lat-Hanis, Jafar Assault GBH x 2 Nana, Ashwin Extortion x 2 Ismail, Mohamed 2 2018/177 Mazhanidza, Edgar Murder Trial Adv D Barnard Ph 10 SS 012/2010 Mulangeny, Calvin Attempted Murder x 4 Moffatview Robbery with aggravating In circumstances x 6 Custody Unlawful possession of Firearm x 3 Unlawful possession of Ammunition x 3 VAN VEENENDAAL, AJ COURT REF NUMBER ACCUSED CHARGES REASON ON STATE ADVOCATE DEFENCE STATUS EST 4C 10/2/11/1 THE ROLL COUNSEL DAYS 2019/125 Ncube, Effect Bruce Murder Argument Adv Zinn Ph 3 SS 011/2020 Ncube, Philani Attempted Murder Johannesburg Dube, Justine Robbery -
Infrastructures of Property and Debt: Making Affordable Housing, Race and Place in Johannesburg
Infrastructures of Property and Debt: making affordable housing, race and place in Johannesburg A DISSERTATION SUBMITTED TO THE FACULTY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA BY Siân Butcher IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY Advisors: Helga Leitner and Eric Sheppard Department: Geography, Environment and Society July 2016 ©2016 by Siân Butcher Acknowledgements This dissertation is not only about debt, but has been made possible through many debts, but also gifts of various kinds. I want to start by thanking the following for their material support of my graduate study at the University of Minnesota (UMN), my dissertation research and my writing time. Institutionally, my homes have been the department of Geography, Environment and Society (GES) and the Interdisciplinary Center for the Study of Global Change (ICGC). ICGC supported me for two years in partnership with the Center for Humanities Research (CHR) at the University of the Western Cape (UWC) through the generous ICGC-Mellon Scholar fellowship. Pre-dissertation fieldwork between 2010-2011 was supported by GES, ICGC, the York-Wits Global Suburbanisms project, and the Social Science Research Council’s Dissertation Proposal Development Fellowship (SSRC DPDF). Dissertation fieldwork in Johannesburg was made possible by UMN’s Global Spotlight Doctoral Dissertation International Research Grant (2012- 2013) and the immeasurable support of friends and family. My two years of writing was enabled by a semester’s residency at the CHR at UWC in Cape Town; a Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship from the University of Minnesota (2014-5), and a home provided by my partner Trey Smith and then my mother, Sue Butcher. -
HIST 1722-Modern South African History
HIST 1722-Modern South African History John Stoner Office: 3704 WWPH (but that won’t help you find me!) Phone: +16076219612 or 0611717830 (or Room #81 at the Protea Cape Castle) Email: [email protected] (best method of communication) Office Hours: NEVER!!! (ok really by appointment) GENERAL EDUCATION REQUREMENTS SATISFIED: (A&S) International and Foreign Culture (Regional), Historical Change, Non-Western Foreign Culture, (Pitt Business) Social Science COURSE DESCRIPTION: Apartheid South Africa captured the international imagination during the second half of the twentieth century as a so-called “pariah” state. This course connects events from earlier South African history (economic development, military conquest, popular protest, and state formation) with how things played out during and after the apartheid years. DOThe course will be organizedNOT chronologically (but in reverse!) COPY and use specific conflicts (strikes, political demonstrations, repression, etc.) to focus on key moments in South African history. It will utilize a large number of primary materials (ranging from manifestos to novels to film) as well as secondary readings from books and articles to generate discussion. This will further an understanding of the roots of conflict and the creation of identity in modern South Africa. No familiarity with African history is required. COURSE GOALS: The course seeks to give students a general background in modern South African history. In addition to becoming more familiar with the chronological narrative, students will be exposed to the parallel processes of industrial development, identity formation, and political change and resistance. COURSE OBJECTIVES: By the end of the semester, students should: • Exhibit familiarity with the general trajectory of South African history since the 1870s. -
Blood on the Page
Blood on the Page Blood on the Page: Interviews with African Authors writing about HIV/AIDS By Lizzy Attree Blood on the Page: Interviews with African Authors writing about HIV/AIDS, by Lizzy Attree This book first published 2010 Cambridge Scholars Publishing 12 Back Chapman Street, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE6 2XX, UK British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Copyright © 2010 by Lizzy Attree All rights for this book reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of the copyright owner. ISBN (10): 1-4438-2077-6, ISBN (13): 978-1-4438-2077-6 TABLE OF CONTENTS Acknowledgements ................................................................................... vii Introduction ................................................................................................. 1 Interview with Phaswane Mpe................................................................... 21 Interview with Sindiwe Magona................................................................ 33 Interview with Kgafela oa Magogodi ........................................................ 77 Interview with Alexander Kanengoni........................................................ 99 Interview with Vivienne Kernohan aka Violet Kala................................ 111 Interview with Charles Mungoshi .......................................................... -
Discourse, Disease and Displacement: Interrogating Selected South African Textual Constructions of Aids
DISCOURSE, DISEASE AND DISPLACEMENT: INTERROGATING SELECTED SOUTH AFRICAN TEXTUAL CONSTRUCTIONS OF AIDS by FELICITY JUNE HORNE submitted in accordance with the requirements for the degree of DOCTOR OF LITERATURE AND PHILOSOPHY in the subject ENGLISH STUDIES at the UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AFRICA SUPERVISOR: Dr G. Graham-Smith CO-SUPERVISOR: Prof. B. Spencer JUNE 2010 2 DEDICATION Dedicated to my late parents Margaret and Billy Kirk for giving me a love of the English language and books. 3 DECLARATION I declare that this thesis, entitled ‘Discourse, Disease and Displacement: Interrogating Selected South African Textual Constructions of AIDS’, is my own work and that all the sources that I have used or quoted have been indicated and acknowledged by means of complete references. Signed: 4 Discourse, Disease and Displacement: Interrogating Selected South African Textual Constructions of AIDS SUMMARY This thesis explores the theme of displacement in AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome)-related discourse in post-apartheid South Africa in the period 1994−2010. It contends that the subject of AIDS and the AIDS-ill is seldom confronted directly in the discourse, but displaced in various ways. Using the theory of social constructionism and the discourse theory of the French poststructuralists, particularly Michel Foucault, selected texts, both literary and non-literary, are subjected to discourse analysis, in which the interrelationships between linguistic and visual representations of AIDS, practice, knowledge and power relations are examined. Recognising that all representations are to some extent displaced constructions, the thesis investigates additional reasons for the particular kinds of displacement of AIDS seen in AIDS discourse. These include stigma, fear, defensiveness and the enduring power of pre- existing discourses onto which AIDS is grafted. -
25 January 2013 / 14 Shevat 5773 Volume 17 - Number 2 News Opinion Letters Tapestry Community Columns Youth Sports
friday 25 january 2013 / 14 Shevat 5773 volume 17 - number 2 news opinion letters tapestry community columns youth sports Aviva Pelham south african sings her mother’s story. (page 10) jewish report www.sajewishreport.co.za Likud leads, but bumpy road ahead for Netanyahu BEN SALES rupled its representation from TEL AVIV three to 12 seats. Together with the Sephardic His party shrunk, his opponents Orthodox Shas party and the grew and his challengers multi- haredi Orthodox United Torah plied. Judaism, the rightwing Knesset But with the results in, it bloc will hold 62 of the Knesset’s seems Benjamin Netanyahu sur- 120 seats - a slim majority. vived the Knesset elections on That’s anything but a mandate Tuesday to serve another term for Netanyahu, who campaigned as prime minister. on the slogan: “A strong prime Netanyahu faces a bumpy road minister, a strong Israel”. ahead. His Likud party, together Instead of being able to lead a with the nationalist Yisrael new coalition with a large party Beiteinu, fell to 31 seats in the behind him, Netanyahu will voting from its current represen- have to negotiate with rivals and tation of 42. forge compromises with oppos- The biggest surprise of the ing camps. election was the ascendance Judging from the successes of of former TV personality Yair Yesh Atid, Labour and Jewish Lapid’s centrist Yesh Atid party. Home, Israelis cast a resounding Founded just a year ago, Yesh vote for progressive economic Atid won 18 seats on a platform reform and new leaders in their of national service and pro- parliament.