As part of a growing literature on the histories of psychology in the Global South, this article outlines some historical developments in South African psychologists’ engagement with the problem of “health.” Alongside movements to formalize and professionalize a U.S.-style “health psychology” in the 1990s, there arose a parallel, eclectic, and more or less critical psychology that contested the...

Many Christians argue that Israel does not have an apartheid regime because (a) it differs from the South African context, and (b) category of race apply. Israel’s oppression Palestinians has history, meets criteria as defined in international law. uses ethnic cleansing, occupation, settler-colonialism a body tools to justify its ongoing imperialism Palestine. This article considers scientific ...

This article aims to explore the historical link between contemporary environmental problems and the environmental, economic and political policies of the apartheid government. The analysis draws on an examination of the detrimental environmental impacts of the apartheid-era and how international isolation impacted on governmental environmental management in the country, before turning attentio...

The roots of a dysfunctional health system and the collision of the epidemics of communicable and non-communicable diseases in South Africa can be found in policies from periods of the country's history, from colonial subjugation, apartheid dispossession, to the post-apartheid period. Racial and gender discrimination, the migrant labour system, the destruction of family life, vast income inequa...

Abstract Apartheid is a crime against humanity, yet no person has ever been prosecuted for this crime. In 2021 two individuals were indicted in South Africa the of apartheid. This an historic first country which gave policy apartheid its name and material content. The indictment is, however, also reminder that non-prosecution legal moral issue to be understood context Africa’s transition from d...

This paper explores the phenomenon of latent politics in South Africa during apartheid era. The term ‘latent policy/politics’ was introduced into scientific use by Gabriel Almond. In field political science policy/politics refers to a hidden, completely or partially unobserved sphere underpinned personality factors. process shows many examples politics. For example, Soweto uprisings and wave un...

South Africa is a dynamic developing country in a challenging transition. The economic purchasing power per person increased more than 173 percent in the first 15 years after Apartheid (World Bank, 2010), while the Human Development Index (HDI) is more or less unchanged since then (UNDP, 2011). South Africa is thus not only one of a few countries in the world that has not experienced human deve...

Much has been written about the seeming inexorable march of globalization and the power of global capitalism to mold state policies according to its requirements. Yet the nation-state remains the center of political action and social solidarity. Notwithstanding the transformational power accorded to globalization, any given country's public institutions remain more tied to the specific politica...

Human rights and health care under apartheid in South Africa were studied. Human rights violations, such as detention without charge or trial, assault and torture in police custody, and restriction orders, have had devastating effects on the health of persons experiencing them. These violations have occurred in the context of a deliberate policy of discriminatory health care favoring the white ...

Abstract Despite recent and increasing attention to the wrong of apartheid in international politics, some basic definitional questions remain uncertain. This article seeks delineate definition law. Its focus is on prohibition binding States custom obligation Article 3 International Convention Elimination All Forms Racial Discrimination. In both cases, shows that Apartheid 1973 supplies wrong's...