· The author argues that South Africa must tackle and dismantle the epistemic violence and hegemony of Eurocentrism, completely rethink, reframe and reconstruct the curriculum and place South Africa ...
· Summary Selling has been illegal in South Africa since at least the early 1900s and buying was criminalised in 2007. South African laws …
Institutions and Gender Index, South Africa was ranked fourth (the highest in Africa) in making progress in terms of gender equality and women''s rights.1 South Africa was second in Africa after Rwanda in terms of representatives in parliament, at 45%.2 These achievements are in line with Goal 3 …
· Electricity became important in South Africa after unification in 1910 because of the need for integrated infrastructure planning on a national scale in the new country as the colonial era ended. ... purpose in owning Eskom was, and remains, the promotion of the policy of modernization and industrial growth, mineral exploitation, and employment ...
· Unconventional oil and gas (UOG) exploitation may generate large volumes of wastewater, with dire environmental consequences if not properly managed. We systematically reviewed literature, reports, and fracking databases to determine possible volumes of wastewater that may be generated during UOG extraction. We then determined ranges of expected UOG extraction …
An NGO operated a National Human Trafficking Resource Line, which received 2,543 calls that led to the identification of 22 victims from South Africa, Eswatini, Ghana, and Malawi. The hotline often received calls from community members who were unable to get help from police stations on trafficking cases, as front-line officials did not know ...
· Heineken issue ferments: Labour-broking shows few signs of disappearing. Martha Xakaza is a single mother born and raised in Soweto. She takes three taxis from …
(SEC) in South Africa, and features recommendations to tackle it. The scope of this submission is limited to SEC and its different manifestations, including exploitation of children in prostitution, online child sexual exploitation (OCSE), child trafficking for sexual purposes, sexual exploitation of children in …
At a time that South Africa celebrates Labour Month, we look at some of the progress the country has made in promoting workers'' rights. Before 1994, the exploitation of workers was a feature of life in South Africa for decades. Apartheid thrived on cheap labour, workers had to contend with the migrant labour system, job reservation, and other ...
· Continental South Africa has a coastline of some 3,650 km and an Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) of just over 1 million km2. Waters in the EEZ extend to a depth of 5,700 m, with more than 65% deeper than 2,000 m. Despite its status as a developing nation, South Africa has a relatively strong history of marine taxonomic research and maintains comprehensive and well-curated museum …
In addition, the flow of US capital towards South Africa only "predicated on the overall level of profits which is steadily high, as it is based on the double exploitation of an industrially developed capitalist country operating on the economics of apartheid" (Smith 61-62) After the purchase of hese businesses and the creation of ...
· 10. 10. O n 16 August 2012, Thembisa Nkuzo was among a group of women who set out from their homes in Nkaneng settlement, in South Africa''s …
· Dark Tourism: A Fine Line Between Curiousity and Exploitation. ... South Africa, or similarly poor settlements in India, and driving through the favelas of Rio de Janeiro all belong to this category. Suicide Tourism. This particularly dark side of dark tourism generally takes two forms. The first involves people traveling to a particular ...
In 1658, a year after the first free burghers had been granted their plots of land, the first slaves were imported into South Africa, specifically for agricultural work. These slaves arrived at the Cape on 28 March 1658 on board the Amersfoort and had been captured by the Dutch from a …
· The South African Working Class andthe National Democratic Revolution. 1. Introduction. The increased tempo of struggle in our country in the last few years has stimulated a great deal of theoretical debate and political discussion among those in the very front line of the upsurge. Workers in the factories, youth in the townships, mass and ...
Or, to put it in another way, apartheid, including separate development, can best be understood as the mechanism specific to South Africa in the period of secondary industrialisation, of maintaining a high rate of capitalist exploitation through a system which guarantees a cheap and controlled labour-force, under circumstances in which the ...
Apartheid in South Africa was above all a system of economic exploitation, driven from the outset by the country''s exceptional mineral riches. Large capitalist conglomerates supported racial discrimination and political control by the white minority inasmuch as they needed to protect their economic interests and secure their profits.
· The ANC and the Exploitation of South Africa. by Eric Draitser. This week''s elective conference of the ruling African National Congress (ANC) in South Africa …
· China''s Ugly Exploitation of Africa—and Africans ''CHOCOLATE CITY'' Beijing is often a step ahead of Washington in Africa, as Secretary of State Tillerson is likely to find out this week.
The exploitation of Africa and Africans by the Western world since 1500, made an invaluable – and even an indispensable – contribution to the building of the economies of three continents (South America, North America and Europe), while products that embodied large
· Researchers said they had seen many different forms of exploitation in South Africa, from forced labour on farms, fishing trawlers, and in domestic servitude to sexual exploitation on …
· South Africa''s "born-free generation"—the name given to children born in South Africa after its first democratic elections in 1994—is now headed for the private sector, and carrying with ...
· Closing Africa''s infrastructure gap has been the obsession of multiple waves of colonists, and China is the next in line to reach into the heart of the continent with railroads, highways, and ...
South Africa''s liberation struggle history revisited. ... economic exploitation continues in the consolidation of the Free Trade Zone and creation of a mega assembly line in Caracol. Sokari Ekine traces this exploitation to the founding of the world''s first black republic in 1804
· The exploitation of Africa''s land and people ... Africa is a critical part of the emerging world economy and the strength of the African Union will allow many of the African nations to be better ...
· A prominent women''s organisation in Mauritania, l''Association des Femmes Chefs de Famille, has raised the alarm about the apparent dire situation of over 200 young women who had travelled to Saudi Arabia to do domestic work, and are said to be maltreated by their employers. According to French news reports from 29 July, a criminal […]
· In Arid South African Lands, Fracking Controversy Emerges. The contentious practice of hydrofracking to extract underground natural gas has now made its way to South Africa''s Karoo, a semi-desert known for its stark beauty and indigenous plants. But opposition is growing amid concern that fracking will deplete and pollute the area''s scarce ...
· Between East and West: The Cold War''s legacy in Africa. ''Red Africa'': From a generation of cinematographers to the end of apartheid – Africa, Cuba and …
South Africa must completely rethink, reframe and ... This is in line with Letsekha''s argument that the higher education system requires a ''fundamental overhaul of the whole epistemological model underlying the current educational system'' (2013:9). ... exploitation of resource-rich parts of the world by the
· A quarter-century after the end of apartheid, South Africa has the worst income inequality in the world—evident in the profusion of high walls, …
· Since the end of Apartheid, the use of racial capitalism in South Africa has declined. Yet, arguably, given the conditions of the Black working class, its analytical force remains, both in South Africa and globally. Below, we reproduce in full Alexander''s "Nation and Ethnicity in South Africa.". Charisse Burden-Stelly.
· A 3-year battle not yet done: Opposing the proposed legalising of ONLINE hard-core PORNOGRAPHY in South Africa. After CFJ had won a titanic 2-year legal battle in 2015 to keep hard-core pornography off South African television (both free-to …
The exploitation of Africa''s land and people
· According to the South African National Human Trafficking Resource Line (SANHTRL) the beauty and perception of economic prosperity lures people from all over Africa …
