The post-Apartheid South African corporate governance (CG) model is a unique hybridisation of the traditional Anglo-American and Continental European-Asian CG models, distinctively requiring firms to explicitly comply with a number of affirmative action and stakeholder CG provisions, such as black economic empowerment, employment equity, environment, HIV/Aids, and health and safety. This paper ...

Curriculum Change in South Africa Since 1994 The development of a national curriculum is a major challenge for any nation, and when a whole country depends on it to transform society in one broad stroke, it imposes tremendous expectations on such a curriculum. South Africa’s democratic government has inherited a divided and unequal system of education and must recognise that apartheid is not th...

There is a developing trend within mainstream South African Churches to incorporate styles of traditional music and cultural elements in liturgical functions. This happening places where such ideas were hitherto unwelcome because mission churches witnessed the denigration indigenous cultures by Europeans during eras both colonialism apartheid. Inculturation Theology underscores current drive fo...

Abstract Because discrimination is systemic, efforts to counter it must also be systemic. The South African case instructive because extreme: Apartheid deliberately excluded the majority of population, Black Africans, from fully participating in society, but post-Apartheid achieve transformation have had limited success. This article examines university system, where involves increasing size sy...

The feminist adage “the personal is political” not ahistorical. It being operationalized in a time when the relationship between private and public undergoing historic transformation. Making privatized violence under current conditions often involves channeling most authoritarian tendencies of state into relationships made increasingly desperate by contemporary capitalism. ethnographic focus es...

In this contributory essay to the 2021 Special Section of PSLR spotlighting ‘Social Justice and COVID-19’, I attempt challenge portrayals novel coronavirus (COVID-19) as an ‘indiscriminate’ ‘equal opportunity’ assailant. doing so, endeavour bring fore a reading social injustices experienced during ongoing COVID-19 pandemic that implicates not only systemic disadvantages inherited from apartheid...

The present article aims to initiate a conversation with Alena Rettová on her “Post-Genocide, Post-Apartheid: Shifting Landscapes of African Philosophy, 1994-2019” that was published in Modern Africa the Summer 2021. We identify several issues historical account philosophical thoughts need polyphonic engagement order ensure Africa’s pluralistic intellectual heritage is not reduced monophonic on...

BACKGROUND Since 1994, South Africa (SA) has faced up to the challenge of building a strong economy, to which public health provides an important underpinning. Objectives. To map the scientific research in public health in SA after the end of apartheid and to present the links between the different financing/funding systems. METHODS Bibliographic analyses utilising the Web of Science of paper...

Disability and postcolonialism are two important, and inter-related, discourses in the social construction of the nation and of those bodies deemed worthy of citizenship rights. This paper acknowledges the material dimensions of disability, impairment--and postcolonialism and its associated inequalities--but it also highlights the rhetorical connections that are commonly made between elements o...

South Africa’s young polity is faced with many challenges of addressing the socio-economic backlogs of the past. After the downfall of apartheid system in 1994, the South African government system was reengineered to address the socio-economic ills created by the apartheid legacy. In the process, detailed programmes and projects were initiated, with very insufficient and often less-developed st...