Education: Keystone of Apartheid

Revisiting South African Journalism Education in the Post-apartheid Era

As elsewhere in the world (Frölich & Holtz-Bacha, 2003; Murray & Moore, 2003), journalism in South Africa is still, after decades, trying to find its niche within the university scholarly environment. Since the turn to democracy in 2004, journalism and journalism education have experienced profound changes. Technologically, reporting has moved from a position where conventional printed media, r...

Unemployment, Education and Skills Constraints in Post-Apartheid South Africa

This paper investigates the relationship between education and unemployment in postapartheid South Africa, and probes the argument that employment growth has been inhibited particularly by skills constraints. We use probit regression analysis to show that higher education protected against unemployment in both 1995 and 2003, and that that these aggregate trends mask substantial variation among ...

Treatment of homosexuality during apartheid.

and related mechanisms at the temporo-parietal junction might thus allow us to improve our neuroscientific models of self and corporeal awareness. Although many other cortical areas are involved in self processing, recent neuroimaging studies indicate a key role for the temporo-parietal junction. This is not only true for out of body experiences but also for many aspects of body and self proces...

South African History [Apartheid]

After the Second World War, in 1948, the NP, with its ideology of apartheid that brought an even more rigorous and authoritarian approach than the segregationist policies of previous governments, won the general election. It did so against the background of a revival of mass militancy during the 1940s, after a period of relative quiescence in the 1930s when black groups attempted to foster unit...

Apartheid Transition: Assessing a Black Township Education in South Africa's Disparate Social System