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Does Black theology have a role to play in the democratic South Africa?
(Faculty of Theology, University of the Free State, 2016)
Black theology was conceived in South Africa in the mid-1960s and flourished from the 1970s, when White supremacy perpetuated by the apartheid state was at its zenith. The struggle against apartheid was aimed mainly at ...
Re-thinking the role of regional development funds in South Africa: reflections on international experience
(Department of Urban and Regional Planning, University of the Free State, 2010)
English: In 2010 the national government actively considered the introduction of a regional development fund to support the objectives of regional development in South Africa. Against this backdrop, this article critically ...
Administrative sociology and apartheid
(University of the Free State, 2014)
Although sociological discourses are multiple and varied, with deeply critical versions
challenging the auspices of apartheid, there is also a strand of what I call ‘administrative
sociology’ that actively defined, ...
Accented futures. Language activism and the ending of apartheid
(University of the Free State, 2015)
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Afrikaner nationalism, apartheid and the perversion of critique
(University of the Free State, 2014)
In this article I investigate the relationship between Afrikaner nationalism, apartheid and
philosophy in the context of the intellectual history of the University of the Free State.
I show how two philosophers that were ...
Working on the thresholds of memory and silence: reflections on the praxis of the Legacies of Apartheid Wars Project
(University of the Free State, 2015)
Just as stories about the past are constructed in particular ways, so too are silences
about historical events. Silences about what happened in the past are catalysed by a
range of factors including expedience, fear, ...
SADF soldiers’ silences: institutional, consensual and strategic
(University of the Free State, 2015)
This article treats silence as a collective phenomenon. Silence can be proscribed and
enforced, socially conditioned and sanctioned, or voluntarily embraced. All forms were
evident in the case of soldiers who served in ...
The storms of reforms: South Africa's reform-strategy, c. 1980-1989
(Faculty of Humanities, University of the Free State, 2013)
2013 marks the thirtieth anniversary of South Africa’s 1983 referendum in which the majority of
whites voted in favour of Pretoria’s proposed reformist constitution. The reform strategy, set out as
a 12 Point Plan, was ...
Vlaandere en Suid-Afrika: die donker skaduwee van apartheid
(Faculty of the Humanities, University of the Free State, 2010-06)
In view of their history, the Flemish people always had a greater understanding of the Afrikaner’s striving to preserve their identity. Even during the dark days of apartheid they were quite sympathetic towards the Afrikaner. ...
The willing and the not so willing: conscription and resistance to compulsory military service in South Africa, 1968-1989
(Faculty of Humanities, University of the Free State, 2012)
South Africa participated in two world wars without implementing compulsory military service.
Following the Second World War, the Union Defence Force relied on the Active Citizen Force to
supplement its manpower needs. ...