Search results

Title: The use of traditional forms in community education
Creator: Dalrymple, Lynn I.
Date: 1997
Collection: Africa Media Review
Description: This paper challenges the entrenched Shannon and Weaver model of communication and suggests alternative approaches to community health education. An alternative, where the emphasis falls on the receiver or 'reader', is examined with special reference to DramAidE. DramAidE is a South African state funded HIV/AIDS education programme in which plays, workshops and community days become a process through which dialogue around health issues is established between health workers and a school...
Show moreThis paper challenges the entrenched Shannon and Weaver model of communication and suggests alternative approaches to community health education. An alternative, where the emphasis falls on the receiver or 'reader', is examined with special reference to DramAidE. DramAidE is a South African state funded HIV/AIDS education programme in which plays, workshops and community days become a process through which dialogue around health issues is established between health workers and a school community. The approach is to use local expressive forms (plays, songs, poems, dances and posters) as enabling resources or mechanisms of learning and of re-enacting and retelling the 'story' from shifting positions. The issues raised about the impact on the community of HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases are further explored in participatory workshops with the intention of changing attitudes and developing some skills. The work is based on the premise that good health is dependent on social, psychological, economic and environmental factors. Likewise, sicknesses are states which must be seen in a holistic sense. The understanding of the meaning of health in this approach is culture bound and it is important not to separate out the physiological from the cultural. A further contention is that health, as a constituent and dynamic component of subjectivity does not refer to a state so much as to a process. This means that health is about self-image, self-esteem and self-confidence. The drama based workshops offered in the progamme focus on building self-esteem and self-awareness as a first step in making choices about healthy behaviour. Therefore, health education should not be actively aimed at changing personal behaviour alone. Young people need to demonstrate skills in changing their social environment and to this end DramAidE is forming clubs in schools that will become self-sufficient and to encourage the school community to take pride in building a culture of learning and health promotion in the school. The long term aim of DramAidE is to develop a social movement around celebrating the joy of choosing to live a healthy life style. We are asking ourselves and young people to 'Act Alive'. One strategy for mobilising young people is build an awareness of the interaction between human rights and health and thus find a common theme that cuts across differences of heritage and culture
Show less

Title: On reading "The S.A. film industry"
Creator: Harvey, R. W. (Richard W.) (Of Transvaal, South Africa)
Date: 1980-03
Collection: Critical Arts
Description: Review of: Keyan G. Tomaselli. The South African film industry. Johannesburg: University of the Witwatersrand, 1979

Title: Book review
Creator: Steadman, Ian
Date: 1985
Collection: Critical Arts
Description: Review of: Robert Mshengu Kavanagh. The radical paradigm in South African theatre studies: a review of theatre and cultural struggle in South Africa. London: Zed Press, 1985

Title: South Africa - the rainbow nation and prospects for consolidating democracy
Creator: Habib, Adam
Date: 1997-12
Collection: African Journal of Political Science
Description: Since the 1994 elections ushered in the Government of National Unity (GNU) led by Nelson Mandela and his African National Congress there have been claims that a stable, multi-racial democratic society has finally triumphed in South Africa. This article refutes such thesis; it examines the prospects for consolidating democracy, and argues that the lack of significant progress regarding social (class and race) and economic (ownership) relations under the GNU is likely to precipitate a political...
Show moreSince the 1994 elections ushered in the Government of National Unity (GNU) led by Nelson Mandela and his African National Congress there have been claims that a stable, multi-racial democratic society has finally triumphed in South Africa. This article refutes such thesis; it examines the prospects for consolidating democracy, and argues that the lack of significant progress regarding social (class and race) and economic (ownership) relations under the GNU is likely to precipitate a political crisis. This could produce an authoritarian response and thereby severely compromise the democratic and socio-economic aspirations which inspired the anti-apartheid struggle.
Show less

Title: Class, race and oppression : metaphor and metonymy in "Black" South African theatre
Creator: Tomaselli, Keyan G., 1948-
Date: 1987
Collection: Critical Arts

Title: Book review
Creator: Louw, P. Eric
Date: 1992
Collection: Critical Arts
Description: Review of: David Kaplan. The crossed line: the South African telecommunications industry in transition. Johannesburg: Witwatersrand University Press, 1990

Title: Chiefs and rural local government in post-apartheid South Africa
Creator: Hendricks, Fred T.
Date: 1999-06
Collection: African Journal of Political Science

Title: Book review : Capital and ideology in South Africa, 1890-1933
Creator: Teer-Tomaselli, Ruth, 1953-
Date: 1981
Collection: Critical Arts
Description: Review of: Belinda Bozzoli. The political nature of a ruling class: capital and ideology in South Africa, 1890-1933. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1981

Title: Black housing, ideology and the media in South Africa 1970-1979
Creator: McCarthy, J. J.
Date: 1981
Collection: Critical Arts

Title: The political economy of bank failure and supervision in the Republic of South Africa
Creator: Okeahalam, Charles
Date: 1998-12
Collection: African Journal of Political Science
Description: The failure of banks has financial, economic, social and political implications. Banks serve as deposit holders and financial intermediaries. As deposit holders they are the custodians of savings and via the market for capital, transfer the savings into investment or consumption. The particular role which banks play in the modern economy is significant and accordingly they are subjected to an extensive regulatory framework to ensure that they can continue to play the role for which they have...
Show moreThe failure of banks has financial, economic, social and political implications. Banks serve as deposit holders and financial intermediaries. As deposit holders they are the custodians of savings and via the market for capital, transfer the savings into investment or consumption. The particular role which banks play in the modern economy is significant and accordingly they are subjected to an extensive regulatory framework to ensure that they can continue to play the role for which they have been designed and to maintain confidence in the monetary andfinancial system. Despite these regulations (some would argue, because of these regulations) banks still become insolvent or fail to meet the conditions for maintenance or renewal of their licences. The final arbiter of this decision is usually the central bank. In the Republic of South Africa (RSA), it has been suggested that the central bank - Reserve Bank of South Africa (RB) - has been unduly political in determining the manner in which it has applied banking regulation and conducted its role as lender of last resort. This paper contributes to this debate by discussing the manner in which the RB has performed its role and ways in which bank supervision in South Africa can be improved.
Show less

Title: Considerations on the role of media and information in building a new South Africa
Creator: Louw, P. Eric
Date: 1994
Collection: Africa Media Review
Description: If South Africa's potential is to be realized, the nation will need to be fully integrated into the global electronic information age. A future South African government can choose between two basic courses of action: (i) emphasis could be placed on reinforcing and expanding the technological infrastructures required to further the development of a post-Fordist South African information economy or (ii) emphasis could be placed on the modernist industrial base at the expense of the information...
Show moreIf South Africa's potential is to be realized, the nation will need to be fully integrated into the global electronic information age. A future South African government can choose between two basic courses of action: (i) emphasis could be placed on reinforcing and expanding the technological infrastructures required to further the development of a post-Fordist South African information economy or (ii) emphasis could be placed on the modernist industrial base at the expense of the information economy and communication technologies of post-Fordism. The challenge lies in avoiding dependency on the West by accepting the top-down relations associated with multi-national capitalism.
Show less

Title: Controlling the past in the museums of Natal and KwaZulu
Creator: Wright, John B. (John Britten), 1942-
Date: 1991
Collection: Critical Arts

Title: The World newspaper 1968-1976
Creator: St. Leger, Fred, 1927-
Date: 1981
Collection: Critical Arts

Title: Peter Davis' film view of South Africa : an American review
Creator: Safford, Kimberly
Date: 1981
Collection: Critical Arts
Description: Review of three films by Peter Davis: The White laager, Generations of resistance, and The nuclear file

Title: Book review
Creator: Chapman, Michael (Michael J. F.)
Date: 1992
Collection: Critical Arts
Description: Review of: Keyan Tomaselli, Ruth Tomaselli, Johan Muller (eds.). Narrating the crisis: hegemony and the South African Press. London: Currey, 1987

Title: Conference report : First National Student Film and Video Festival|nView 1|pTheory or practice?
Creator: Grove, Johann (Johann Heinrich Matthys)
Date: 1981
Collection: Critical Arts

Title: Levels of intervention in films made for African audiences in South Africa
Creator: Gavshon, Harriet
Date: 1983
Collection: Critical Arts

Title: Integration and policy constraints to industry and trade in Botswana, Lesotho and Swaziland
Creator: Setai, Bethuel
Date: 1988
Collection: African Journal of Political Economy
Description: The Southern African Customs Union (SACU) is comprised of Botswana, Lesotho, Swaziland (BUS) and South Africa and until 1975 when Botswana withdrew to establish her own central bank, all the four countries were members of the Rand Monetary Area (RMA). In this paper we review the performance of the BLS countries under both institutional arrangements focusing on industry and trade. The SACU and RMA are characterised by restraints and controls thathave a negative impact on the growth and...
Show moreThe Southern African Customs Union (SACU) is comprised of Botswana, Lesotho, Swaziland (BUS) and South Africa and until 1975 when Botswana withdrew to establish her own central bank, all the four countries were members of the Rand Monetary Area (RMA). In this paper we review the performance of the BLS countries under both institutional arrangements focusing on industry and trade. The SACU and RMA are characterised by restraints and controls thathave a negative impact on the growth and development of the smaller partners. While we recognise the effect of polarisation due to market forces, we point out that polarisation is a result of institutional restraints and controls which enable South Africa to take advantage of the gains of economic co-operation in all aspects of economic activity particularly consumption activities, capital, supply of raw materials and labour resources.
Show less

Title: The South African state and Africa
Creator: Nolutshungu, Sam C.
Date: 1986
Collection: African Journal of Political Economy

Title: Angsst--same time, same place
Creator: Van Zyl, J. A. F., 1934-
Date: 1980-03
Collection: Critical Arts
Description: Review of Chris Pretorius's short film "Angsst"

MSU Libraries

Digital Repository

Enabled Filters

Pages

Pages

MSU Libraries

Digital Repository

You are here

Search results

Pages

Pages