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Weaving more-than-human connections in Danelle Heenop and Juan Steyn’s The nest and Jo Roets’s Nest series: Stairways and Ruins
No full textIn The nest sound installation series by Danelle Heenop and Juan Steyn, created for the Stairways and Ruins exhibition (2023), five structures depict the ruins of non-human animal housing structures. Bird nests are recreated in ghostly white and earth tones in The core, Masks, The conflict, Abandoned and The confrontation, each with a unique soundtrack. A parallel can be drawn between these works and Jo Roets’s air-drying clay sculptures for the Elegy exhibition (2024), which also include intricately woven bird nests. Roets emphasises the search for hidden connections to self, other people and nature in her work. Recently more-than-human connections have increasingly drawn attention as people are confronted with the effects of climate change and the impact of human activities on the environment. In this article, I argue that Heenop and Steyn’s The nest sound installation series and Roets’s Nest sculptures evoke experiences of loss and transience, with the inherent vulnerability of being on Earth connecting various more-than-human forms of existence, highlighting the interrelationship between humans and non-human agents. This focus on making hidden, often overlooked connections visible is informed by Sol Plaatje’s emphasis on the desire to return to ruins or to what remains
An alliance of style, situation and content: The design of a typeface for South Africa\u27s Constitutional Court
No full textOne of the most striking features on approaching the Constitutional Court located on Constitution Hill in Johannesburg, is the typographic application directly above the main public entrance. Bold, colourful, friendly and almost playful, the typography announces the identity of the building in the 11 official languages of the country. Unlike the formal and classical identification signage associated with many public law buildings in South Africa, this typeface signals an alternative set of core values and references. In keeping with the ideas informing the conceptual development of Constitution Hill, the typeface and signage are an example of a contemporary civic-based project that draws on South Africa\u27s political history and strives to encapsulate and mirror its democratic aspirations
Decoding Southern African Folktales using Hylistic Analysis
Get PDFIn this submission, the potential of hylistic analysis for the domain of Southern African folklore is demonstrated. For that purpose, narrative sequences of folktales are carefully re-constructed according to the new hylistic theory and analysed on a subset of 30 folktales from Henry Callaway\u27s Nursery Tales and Histories of the Zulus, a unique parallel resource in English-vernacular isiZulu.
The dataset, consisting of 5176 distinct narrative statements, so-called hylemes in 384 narrative sequences, is presented as a freely accessible resource which holds transformative potential for the re-interpretation and (automatic) processing of folktale narratives. It is the first step towards a thorough investigation of Callaway\u27s collection, and an effort to the analysis of the tales\u27 narrative structures. The dataset can be used as a resource for many future studies on folktale characters and plots as well as the study of historical isiZulu.
The role of the courts in ensuring the right to a basic education in a democratic South Africa: A critical evaluation of recent education case law
Get PDFHierdie artikel ontleed onlangse regspraak aangaande die reg op basiese odnerwys. Die “vier A-skema”, wat deur ’n voormalige spesiale rapporteur op onderwys van die Verenigde Nasies voorgestel is en deur die Komitee op Sosiale-, Ekonomiese- en Kulturele Regte in sy Algemene Kommentaar 13 ondersteun is, vorm die raamwerk vir die ontleding. Die vier A-skema omvat beskikbaarheid (availability), toeganklikheid (accessibility), aanvaarbaarheid (acceptability) en aanpasbaarheid (adaptability). ’n Kritiese ontleding van die regspraak dui aan dat daar probleme in die lewering van basiese onderwys in Suid-Afrika bestaan met betrekking tot elkeen van die vier verwante elemente. Sommige van die hindernisse het betrekking op die versuim om noodsaaklike vereistes soos infrastruktuur, skryfbehoeftes en vervoer te voorsien. Ander uitdagings hou verband met geskille rakende die magte van skoolbeheerliggame en skole teenoor die magte van provinsiale departe-mentshoofde, lede van provinsiale uitvoerende komitees en, ten opsigte van nasionale beleid, die nasionale Minister van Basiese Onderwys. Die artikel wys dat litigasie ’n belangrike rol speel om die reg op basiese onderwys te verwesenlik, geskille te besleg en die toewysing van dienste en middele aan leerders te verseker. Die slotsom is dat die soms noodsaaklik en gepas is om die geregtelike roete wat binne ’n grondwetlike demokrasie beskikbaar is, te volg om die reg op basiese onderwys te verwesenlik
Learners’ religious-cultural rights: A delicate balancing act
Get PDFSuid-Afrikaanse openbare skole konfronteer die uitdaging om duidelike riglyne te ontwikkel wat die grondwetlik-beskermende regte van alle godsdienste en kulture respekteer en eer. Die Suid-Afrikaanse Skolewet 84 van 1996 verwag van skoolbeheerliggame om \u27n Gedragskode vir Leerders daar te stel wat streng onderworpe is aan die Grondwet van die Republiek van Suid-Afrika, 1996.1 Die reg van groepe om hul godsdiens te beoefen en hul kultuur te geniet moet in lyn wees met die bepalings van die Handves van Menseregte, en dit impliseer dat daar nie onbillik inbreuk gemaak mag op die reg op vryheid van godsdiens en kultuur nie.
In die Verenigde State van Amerika verskaf die federale Grondwet op \u27n beperkte wyse beskerming vir leerders se vryheid van godsdiens en kultuur op skool. Die beskerming geld solank die uitoefen van sulke regte nie inmeng met die bestuur van die skool en die regte van ander leerders nie.3 Met die Grondwetlike Hof van Suid-Afrika wat diverse godsdiens- en kultuurregte op openbare skole erken, ontstaan daar spanning tussen die menings wat betref die menseregte van leerders wat uit verskillende godsdienstige en kulturele agtergronde afkomstig is en skoolamptenare se verantwoordelikheid om veilige en gehalte skole te bedryf. In hierdie artikel ondersoek die outeurs hierdie spanning en die implikasie daarvan op skoolbeleid vir Suid-Afrikaanse openbare skole
Compatibility of democracy and learner discipline in South African schools
Get PDFAs gevolg van die afskaffing van lyfstraf voel baie onderwysers magteloos om ernstige leerder wangedrag by skole effektiewelik te hanteer. Nogtans bevat die Skolewet kenmerke van verteenwoordigende- en deelnemende demo-krasie en is gegrond op die beginsels van aanspreeklikheid, deursigtigheid en billikheid. Demokrasie beteken nie anargie of wetteloosheid nie, maar impliseer die behoud van ’n ordelike en gedissiplineerde skoolomgewing op grond van die oppergesag van die reg. Uit die regspraak is dit duidelik dat die howe deurgaans die behoud van dissipline en respek vir gesag handhaaf, veral in gevalle van kwetsende vrye uitdrukkings en ernstige leerder-wangedrag. Fundamentele regte is ’n voorvereiste en grondwetlike element van demokrasie. Elke skool is ’n mikrokosmos van die samelewing en demokratiese praktyke, soos die handhawing van dissipline en die skepping van ’n menseregtekultuur, is in ooreenstemming met die daarstelling van substantiewe demokrasie
\u27Harnessing the Falls\u27: Early South African Electrification and the Victoria Falls and Transvaal Power Company, 1906 – 1948
No full textThe Victoria Falls and Transvaal Power Company (VFP) was the largest generator of electricity in South Africa between 1906 and 1948. This made the VFP an extremely important driving force in the country’s economy, especially as the Rand’s mines began to rely on increasing electrical consumption as part of their mechanisation. In turn, it was this economic importance that brought the VFP into conflict with other groups that were attempting to establish their own electricity generation and distribution grids, especially so with the Rand’s municipal bodies. After the enactment of the Electricity Act of 1922, the VFP was faced with further opposition in the form of the Electricity Supply Commission (hereafter referred to by its contemporary name, Eskom). While the relationships between the VFP, Eskom, and the Rand’s municipalities has been examined in the existing body of published literature, the focus of these prior analyses has largely been centred on Marxist frameworks. Instead, this article intends to examine these relationships in terms of the complex relationships between the VFP, municipal governments, local government, and their electricity consumers.
