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From the collection, ‘This House’, This Pink Suitcase by Owam Heyana
Get PDFStanza Introduction: This pink suitcasewith wheels that wiggle in different directionsand is as big as if it could fit the world in itwas bought for my travels.
Our Hope
Get PDFStanza Introduction: The drain has burst, the water has flooded our roads and the municipality hasn’t come to fix it. Our cars have found way into potholes so deep they could bury us. We watch cars getting hijacked and clutch our purses to our chests
Spectres of Black Flags in the Miombo: The Islamic State\u27s coverage of their Mozambique province, 2022-2023
Get PDFThis article studies the Islamic State’s only remaining periodical, Al-Naba, identifying the most common tropes and patterns in the periodical’s Sub-Saharan Africa coverage, and on Mozambique in particular. The Islamic State’s increasingly important coverage of Africa focuses on terror attacks, military campaigns and on the fight against Christianity. However, it also employs more traditional anti-colonial arguments that have been used by other, more accepted, political actors during the struggle for decolonisation. Al-Naba also functions as a ‘shamer’ of non-African Muslims, to get them to join jihad by pointing to the African successes of the organisation and set these successes up as examples to be followed. In this sense, the article illustrates how African jihadist branches can have global agency
\u27Here we Punish, Here we Discipline\u27: Forced Displacement, Silencing and the Multiple Faces of Violence in Cabo Delgado, Mozambique
No full textForced displacement and silencing are inextricably bound for communities who have experienced different forms of violence in different contexts. This article explores the narratives about the war that began on 5 October 2017 in the district of Mocímboa da Praia, on the coast of the province of Cabo Delgado, northern Mozambique, by a group of radical guerrillas locally known as mashababe. Since then, from isolated attacks on remote villages, violence has spread to more districts in the region, with kidnappings of civilians, looting of barns and houses, thus imposing the forced displacement of hundreds of thousands of people in addition to an inestimable number of dead and missing people. This article combines the history and ethnographic work carried out between 2018 and 2021 with the homeless populations from conflict regions and hosted in the ‘Nacaca Displaced Persons Camp’ (Campo de Deslocados de Nacaca), built in the district of Montepuez, south of Cabo Delgado, a region previously considered safe. The aim of this paper is to analyse how the multiple faces of traumatic violence (physical, psychological and symbolic) are processed in which war victims are continually exposed through silencing imposed by different actors who frequent their new places of refuge
Dénètem Touam Bona, Fugitive, where are you running?
No full textIntroduction: Fugitive, Where are you Running? is a collection of essays, most of which were previously published in French, by writer, philosopher and curator Dénètem Touam Bona. The author’s inclination to straddle geographic and conceptual lines is reflected in the scope, exuberance and poetic verve of the volume. The first three chapters (‘Return of the Maroni’, ‘The Art of the Fugue’, ‘Manhunt’) lay the conceptual foundation by foregrounding categories of marronage, fugitivity and fugue. The fugitive slave is presented as the figure that haunts the establishment of capitalist modernity and the only possible ‘line of flight’ from it. The fugue is the art of subtle evasion from the prisons of racialised capitalism and an alternative to the triumphalist politics of armed liberation struggles. Touam Bona proposes an impressionistic, rhapsodic and allegorical travel through the various incarnations of the maroon community – with its spontaneous and horizontal modes of organisation and accretion – and capitalism’s death drive to surveil and suppress them
Notes on Contributors
Get PDFDuncan Brown is Professor of English in the Centre for Multilingualism and Diversities Research at the University of the Western Cape. He has published widely in the field of South African literary and cultural studies. His recent books include Wilder Lives: Humans and Our Environments (2019), and Finding My Way: Reflections on South African Literature (2020). He is Principal Investigator on the Andrew W. Mellon funded project on “Rethinking South African Literature(s)” (2019-2024), and Co-ordinator on the South African section of the University of Oslo funded project on “Global Trout: Investigating Environmental Change through More-than-Human World Systems” (2019-2024). Michael Chapman is a researcher-in-residence at the Durban University of Technology in South Africa. His creative nonfictional work Green in Black-and-White Times appeared in 2016. On Literary Attachment in South Africa: Tough Love (2022) seeks to embody in a single language of response two categories that are usually thought to be apart, criticism (conceptual) and art (creative). Andries du Toit is the director of the Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies at the University of the Western Cape, where he has spent most of the last thirteen years answering emails and navigating the university\u27s labyrinthine procurement and HR system. In his spare time he does research, focusing on the politics of landlessness, poverty, and inequality in South Africa
Applying the Routine Activities Theory to Cybercrime: A ‘Cyber’ Capable guardian.
Get PDFThis paper presents the third constitutive element of the Routine Activities Theory, the capable guardian, as a possible response to combatting cybercrime. It suggests a re-imagining of the concept of the capable guardian from its original form to what this study calls the cyber capable guardian. It argues that in order to combat cybercrime successfully, it is necessary to introduce artificial intelligence Technology in the form of machine learning to create a cyber capable guardian which will perform functions that a human capable guardian would not be able to perform. Finally, it discusses section 52 of the Cybercrimes Act, which provides for the Designated Point of Contact (DPoC). It argues that the DPoC would be a suitable capable guardian if it were to be created as an independent agency which is incorporated as a private company in terms of The Companies Act 71 of 2008. It further argues that the DPoC should be established with the chief mandate of combating cybercrime through the creation and operation of the Cyber Capable guardian
THE REALISATION OF MEDIA FREEDOM AS A TOOL TO COMBAT CORRUPTION IN ZIMBABWE: LESSONS FROM SOUTH AFRICA
Get PDFCorruption is rife in South Africa and Zimbabwe. The media plays an important role in exposing corruption. In South Africa, the media exposed a multi-billion-dollar corruption saga in 2016 involving the former president and his business associates which the media dubbed “state capture”. Most of the state-owned entities were captured and served as vehicles for grand corruption. Today, South Africa has yet to recover from the saga exposed in 2016. In fact, the incumbent South African president, Cyril Ramaphosa, has also been under investigation for money laundering and corruption while simultaneously reaffirming his ruling party’s fight against corruption. The media continues to keep the executive on its toes and should be praised for their efforts. South Africa’s neighbour, Zimbabwe, has a different outlook. While corruption in Zimbabwe is even worse than in South Africa, the media does not have the similar freedom to expose corruption. There exists a constant fear of retaliation for blowing the whistle on corrupt activities. It is common for journalists to be detained for speaking out. Media laws should be adopted to affirm media freedom. Instead they have often been adopted, especially in Zimbabwe, to demonise the media. This paper essentially analyses the importance of the media in exposing corruption in Zimbabwe and how their role can be protected and enhanced. This paper makes an important contribution towards the protection of media freedom in light of strengthening anti-corruption efforts in South Africa and Zimbabwe. It is one of the first studies to examine the achievements and shortcomings of media freedom in relation to corruption in South Africa and Zimbabwe. The article will commence by examining conceptual aspects regarding corruption and the role of the media. It will then examine the regulatory framework governing the rights of media in both jurisdictions. What follows next is an analysis of several case studies amplifying the problems faced by the media in Zimbabwe. This is followed by analysing the lessons Zimbabwe can learn from South Africa\u27s approach to media freedom. The article will conclude by providing several recommendations