Reconciliation and psychiatry in South Africa

Psychiatric contributions from South Africa: ex Africa semper aliquid novi.

Given that humans originated in Africa, it is likely that many seminal psychological observations and interventions originate in the continent. Relatively little attention has been paid, however, to more recent African contributions to the scientific fields of psychiatry and clinical psychology. This article notes that a number of major contributions to the understanding of brain-mind disorders...

Narrating Political Reconciliation: Truth and Reconciliation in South Africa

This article enquires into the narration of reconciliation in South Africa and its political implications. It scrutinizes the subjects, objects and material practices that flow from the reconciliation story. The investigation turns on two crucial assumptions: (a) that discourse is an ideological system of meaning that constitutes and naturalizes the subjects and objects of political life, and (...

COSMOPOLITAN AND NATIONALIST DISCOURSES OF RECONCILIATION 1 Cosmopolitan and Nationalist Discourses of Reconciliation: Memory (Re)construction in South Africa and Rwanda

Rights and Reasons: Challenges for Truth Recovery in South Africa and Northern Ireland

This Essay will argue that any transitional mechanism must be by its nature and temporal historical location a politically contested instrument. This can have differing political and social impacts, and impact on the human rights culture in the society in question. Based on the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission (”TRC”) experience, two rights-based issues – namely, human rights a...

Microbial Quality of Ready-to-Eat Street Vended Food Groups Sold in the Johannesburg Metropolis, South Africa

Background: In many developing countries, the risk of contracting a food-borne disease is high after consuming contaminated ready-to-eat Street-Vended Foods (SVFs). The main objective of this research was to assess the microbiological quality of SVF groups sold in the Johannesburg Metropolis, South Africa. Methods: A stratified random sampling procedure was used for collecting the ready-to-eat...