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Memory and Ukuzilanda
Get PDFBackground: The concept, better yet the word ukuzilanda comprises several meanings and must be understood as a word in two parts, “landa” as being the lexical item and “ukuzi” as a combined prefix. This understanding is by no means grammatically correct or posing as though it is from a linguist. By combined prefix, I mean that “ukuzi” can be broken down further to “uku” and “zi”; one indicating the actof doing and the other indicating an individual subject respectively
“Let Them Stay There”: COVID-19 and Zimbabwe’s Indignation Against Return Migrants and Travelers
Get PDFThis paper explains the indignation against and stigmatization of return migrants and travelers when Zimbabwe first recorded cases of COVID-19 in 2020. While xenophobic hatred toward foreign migrants enjoyed much media and scholarly attention, the similar risk faced by the return migrants and travelers among “their own” during the pandemic was largely left on the back burner. The paper uses secondary analysis of information from social media, government reports, media briefings, and public utterances of government officials to provide an explanation for the negative attitudes of locals against migrants at the height of COVID-19. The findings revealed that in times of change and dealing with uncertainty, there is a tendency to redraw boundary lines between in-groups and out-groups with negative consequences for those labeled as the out-group. For some time, the returnees were stigmatized as harbingers of the COVID-19 virus and viewed as troublesome and acting in an unreasonable manner, thus courting the indignation of local Zimbabweans. This paper lends support to the view that pandemics create fear, which results in the rejection and exclusion of ordinary members of the in-group. Perceived resource competition, resource scarcity, anxiety, and fear heightened the stigmatization of return migrants and travelers. To build back better from the negative effects of the pandemic, there is a need to review COVID-19 preventive measures, avoid reckless public pronouncements that stigmatize and stoke hatred for return migrants, and invest in the healthcare system
What does it mean to be ‘progressive’ in South Africa today? Viewpoints from civil society
Get PDFAn awful lot has changed during South Africa’s 30 years of democracy – but clearly not nearly enough. The state’s provision of certain basic services is broadly recognised, and commended, but democracy is not measured according to the ability of the state to deliver services to its citizens. It is reflected in the ability of every person to exercise their human rights to secure better lives for themselves, their families and their communities. Manifesto’s aside, how could the country now move forward, from where we are? We publish three views – from the Cape Town-based Progressive Citizens Initiative, from Abahlali baseMjondolo and from My Vote Counts
Looking to the past to shape Parliament’s future: Yunus Carrim says hamba kahle, after 30 years in the House
Get PDFOn the eve of his retirement after 30 years as a Member of Parliament, Yunus Carrim shares a timely reminder of South African democracy’s “glorious” days. In an interview with MOIRA LEVY he reminisced about the 1994 Parliament, which he described as “an organic reflection of what this country is capable of”.
A long-standing veteran of student, civic, community and political struggles since the ‘70s and in what became the Mass Democratic Movement of the ‘80s and early ‘90s, Yunus Carrim says the political culture of that time was carried over into the country’s first democratic Parliament and made manifest in the ANC’s legacy of peaceful negotiations. He recalls a moment during his first term. Leaving his office at about 2am and finding that the exit gate to the parking area in the basement was closed, he had to detour past the Old Assembly chamber. As he got nearer to it, he could hear a murmur of voices and clinking of cups and cutlery
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Get PDFOwam Heyana (Poetry)Menzi Thango (Poetry)Zongezile Matshoba (Poetry)Jerome Coetzee (Poetry)Charne Williams (Cover Arts)Anna Nguyen (Creative Non-Fiction)Skye Bailey (Book Review)Dr. Ugonna Ezinne Ubah (Research Article)Tlhokomelo R.B. Monethi (Research Article
Walter D. Mignolo and Catherine E. Walsh, On Decoloniality: Concepts, Analytics, Praxis (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2018). ISBN: 978-0-8223-7177-9
Get PDFBackground: One of the intended aims of the \u27On Decoloniality\u27 series published by Duke University Press, as stated by the editors, Catherine E. Walsh and Walter Mignolo, is to create and illuminate \u27pluriversal and interversal paths, that disturb the totality from which the universal and the global are most often perceived\u27. This does not amount to a rejection of western thought, which is also part of the pluriversal, but a disavowal of the western construction of universality. It stands as a search for a respectful non-competitive coexistence of multiple, reciprocal recognitions among different intellectual traditions and geopolitical struggles from below, emerging from different parts of the world, in addition to South America, Eastern Europe, Asia and the \u27south in the north. It requires the deployment of energies and forces towards affirmative, and not merely defensive, actions
South Africa’s migration policy mess: Where did it come from, and can it be fixed?
Get PDFAlan Hirsch comments on the draft White Paper on Citizenship, Immigration and Refugee Protection issued by the South African government in November 2023. The government wants to make laws still tighter when it is unable to implement existing laws. He finds that what is proposed simply won’t help and suggests what could be done to fix the urgent need for better migration policy
The UN has failed in its mission to secure global peace and defend global citizens
No full textThe United Nations has clearly failed to uphold even the very first line of its founding Charter, which commits the nations of the world to “save succeeding generations from the scourge of war”, and has shown itself to be entirely ineffective against genocide in Gaza, civil war in Sudan and Congo, bloody assaults by Russia on its neighbour, Ukraine, and hostilities in the Middle East that raise the spectre of a inconceivably disastrous Third World War