South African agriculture in transition: the 1990s

The Effect of South African Geopolitical Position in the Development of Cinema in South Africa

This paper will discuss about the role of the geopolitical location of South Africa in the development of movie and the cinema industry in this country. Despite of bringing ci-nema to South Africa by white Europeans, but the development of this phenomenon is mostly due to the geopolitical position of this country. It is interesting to know that ci-nema reached Africa in much the same time as it...

Quartz exposure in agriculture: literature review and South African survey.

OBJECTIVES To review the published literature on respirable quartz exposure and associated disease in agricultural related settings systematically and to describe personal respirable dust and quartz measurements collected on a sandy soil farm in the Free State province of South Africa. METHODS The published studies on exposure to respirable silica and quartz in agriculture and related setting...

The South African Transition: From Development to Security?

This article questions some recent analyses which claim that global neo-liberal discourses are disseminated to shift the focus away from development towards a greater emphasis on security issues. Taking as its point of departure the analysis of empirical material from Cape Town, the article shows that security and development in South Africa were never separate concerns. After the ANC came to p...

FORUM KRITIKA: THE SOUTH AFRICAN NOVEL IN TRANSITION: 1990-2010 MOVEMENT, MEMORy, TRANSFORMATION, ANd TRANSITION IN THE CITy: LITERARy REpRESENTATIONS OF JOHANNESbURg IN pOST-ApARTHEId SOUTH AFRICAN TExTS

Writing the city,” particularly writing the city of Johannesburg, in post-apartheid South African fiction can be considered a new approach to interpreting South African culture—a new approach that takes into consideration and reflects the changes taking place in present-day South African society. Texts written on Johannesburg such as Kgebetli Moele’s Room 207 (2006) and Ivan Vladislavić’s The R...

Risks Management in African Agriculture