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Sustainable community engagement within the Arts: A conceptual framework
Get PDFThis conceptual paper explores the complexities of fostering sustainable community engagement within the Arts by developing a theoretically grounded framework informed by the literature and practice. Our engagement with the topic emerged through an iterative process of critical reflection and qualitative document analysis. Rather than offering prescriptive models or fixed outcomes, we present this framework as a contribution to the ongoing dialogue about the role of the Arts in higher education contexts in advancing sustainability. We begin by positioning our work within current debates on community engagement and sustainability, followed by a discussion of the theoretical framing that guided the conceptual development of our argument. The framework is structured on the basis of six interrelated themes – culturally responsive practices, integrated cross-disciplinary collaboration, dynamic impact assessment, synergistic community alliances, systems integration, and reflective practice. We offer these as entry points for further reflection and refinement, particularly for scholars and practitioners navigating the intersection of the Arts, education and sustainable community engagemen
Long live the king: The problematic nature of Davis J’s judgment in the case of Prince Mbonisi Bekithemba kaBhekuzulu v the President of the Republic of South Africa
Get PDFShaka kaSenzangakhona and Dingane kaSenzangakhona would never have imagined that today their descendants would engage in judicial warfare over the throne. This article analyses the cases Zulu v Mathe and Prince Mbonisi Bekithemba kaBhekuzulu v the President of the Republic of South Africa. I take the view that Prince Misuzulu (as he then was) is the rightful King of the AmaZulu. It would be unjust to change that position based on some procedural irregularity when even in the presence of the so-called correct procedure contemplated in section 8(4) and (5) of the Traditional Leadership and Khoi-San Act, he would still be king. The role played by the court in Zulu v Mathe was that of an investigative committee contemplated in the Leadership Act. As such, this is the exception to such a process being mandatory. In a hypothetical situation in which Prince Simakade is a contender to the throne, he falls short due to his mother’s being a spinster. The equality argument is not sufficient to change his position. As such, the prospects of invalidatingKing Misuzulu’s claim to the throne seem quite scant
The Social Politics of the Coloured Identity
Get PDFEvery few years the internet collectively happens upon a group of South Africans calling themselves coloured. In recent memory, South African singer Tyla’s identity was thoroughly scrutinized by the chronically online Americans; sparking contentious debate once again. At its essence; a divide exists, one group sees the term as racially prejudiced due to their historical relationship with it, while coloured South Africans proudly claim it as their identity, heritage, and culture. My orientation is simple; this is who I am and I am proud of it. The context of a word determines its meaning-and neither I, nor my experiences will be erased by people unable to conceptualize the importance of context
Editorial team
Get PDFThe editorial team consists of a group of students who have worked tirelessly to help develop the journal. This team helped develop the Open Mic and other events events, hosted by the library from which contributions to the journal are sourced. the team is supported by administrators from the Writing Center and the Library
Migration as Prophecy Fulfilled: The Case of Hadiya Migration from Southern Ethiopia to South Africa
No full textThis article examines the role religion has played in the process of Hadiya migration from southern Ethiopia to South Africa—from decision making to processes of settlement at destination. Religion, specifically evangelical Christianity, has played a key role in the various phases of the migration process: from imagination of a sacred destination, signification of migration as a gift of God, risk perception and negotiation through to place making and spiritual engagements to overcome specific challenges of the new migration habitus. The article situates migration processes within a broader historical context and explains how spiritually animated migratory agency has helped Hadiya migrants negotiate the historically shaped regional inequality within Ethiopia. It concludes with an emphasis on how the Hadiya migration story ethnographically demonstrates the crucial role religion plays in migration processes, with a call for migration studies to take seriously intangible factors in migration
Pandemic Mobilities, Livelihood Disruptions, and Food Insecurities among Eastern Cape Migrants in Cape Town and Johannesburg during COVID-19
Get PDFThis paper examines the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on internal migrants from the Eastern Cape in the cities of Cape Town and Johannesburg, South Africa, with a focus on mobility restrictions, livelihood disruptions, and food insecurity. Methodologically, the paper draws on a survey of 1,733 migrant households in the two cities conducted in 2023 and identifies significant economic hardships and increased food insecurity among internal migrants during the pandemic. Findings reveal that the pandemic exacerbated vulnerabilities, with many migrants experiencing job losses, reduced remittances, and heightened food insecurity. The paper underscores the need to differentiate between internal and international migrants in policy responses in times of crisis to ensure targeted support for the most affected populations
“Stopped in the middle” with Elm,arie Costandius: playing with interruptions/continuities
Get PDFThis paper is written in memory of our friend and colleague, Elmarie Costandius, a visual artist and academic, whose untimely and unexpected death deeply affected us. While we had worked with Elmarie in various research projects, short courses, and workshops, over a period of ten years or so, in this article we refer to a series of encounters, in which we came together to explore a decolonial and post qualitative inquiry practice as part of a South African Swedish Universities Forum (SASUF) project (2020 - 2022). Entitled (Re)configuring Scholarship in Higher Education, the project focused on alternative ways of doing pedagogies and inquiry in the current context of higher education precarities and the consequent imperative for transformation. We wanted to explore how feminist new materialist imaginaries could be put to work with affective embodied practices to expand our thinking and reconfigure our scholarship. Guided by Elmarie’s experimental arts-based approach, we opened ourselves to the affordances of playfulness, creative, serious and experimental thinking-making-doings, and the vulnerabilities of these embodied, relational scholarly praxes. Stopped in the middle, we show how our entangled thinking-making-doings continue Elmarie’s legacy
Kidnapped at Sea: Kidnapped at Sea: The Civil War Journey of David Henry White
No full textKidnapped at Sea tells the true story of a free black teenager, David Henry White from Delaware on the east coast of the United States, who was captured from a transatlantic merchant vessel where he served as a junior member of the kitchen staff and held as a slave on the rebel warship Alabama. Captained by slave-owner and committed rebel Raphael Semmes, Alabama roamed the north and south Atlantic and the Indian Ocean, capturing, burning or ransoming dozens of US merchant ships, fighting off one US warship and finally being sunk in battle by another. White, who could not swim, was abandoned and drowned. nThe arc of the story sweeps from Civil War US, following Alabama from its shipyard in the UK to the US, and then back across the north Atlantic, down to Brazil, to Saldanha Bay, Cape Town and Simonstown, across to south east Asia, back to the south Atlantic, to temporary respite in a French port and its demise in international waters between France and the UK. The story demonstrates how the conflict impacted many and implicated some in its global theatre of war
My Name is February
Get PDFDiane Ferrus is a poet, writer, performance artist, activist, founder member of Bush Poets, the Afrikaans Writers Association (Afrikaanse Skrywersvereniging) and Women in Xchains. She is a member of the Women’s Education and Artistic Voice Expression (WEAVE), played an instrumental role in the repatriation of Sarah Baartman’s remains from France to South Africa and was a recipient of the Minister’s Award for Women. Her work has been published in various collections and some serve as prescribed texts for high school learners. She worked for 25 years at the University of the Western Cape until she retired in 2016. She has completed a postgraduate degree in Women’s and Gender Studies.Diane performed this poem at the ‘Unbroken Spirits: Concert for Humanity’ that formed part of the Living Rights Festival. She has graciously given New Agenda permission to publish this poem