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Daedalus articles from January 2001
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Daedalus archives from January 2001
Preface to the Issue "Why South Africa Matters".
January 1, 2001... IN THE SPRING of last year, Daedalus published an issue entitled "Brazil: The Burden of the Past; The Promise of the Future." In choosing to publish an issue dealing with the new South Africa, as that nation has evolved in recent years,...
Citizenship Challenges for South Africa's Young Democracy.
January 1, 2001... INTRODUCTION
THE IDEA OF CITIZENSHIP is at the heart of democratic political systems. It embodies the rights and responsibilities of those living under the rule of law. Political systems can be measured by the extent to which citizens...
Who's Got the Map? The Negotiation of Afrikaner Identities in Post-Apartheid South Africa.
January 1, 2001... INTRODUCTION
SINCE THE DISMANTLING OF APARTHEID, white people in South Africa have not experienced a tangible decline in living Standards. [1] Most still live in big suburban houses, drive expensive cars, and send their children to good...
"Two Nations"? Race and Economic Inequality in South Africa Today.
January 1, 2001... SOUTH AFRICA HAS LONG BEEN INFAMOUS for its very high level of inequality. Speaking in Parliament in 1998, then-deputy president Thabo Mbeki described South Africa as divided into "two nations, the one black and the other white":
One of...
Economic Scenarios for South Africa: A Business Perspective.
January 1, 2001... INTRODUCTION
IN 1994, SOUTH AFRICA'S new democratic government inherited an economy in which growth had been feeble for Several decades, and a social system in which a majority of laborers had been denied access to education and...
Minerals and Migrants: How the Mining Industry has Shaped South Africa.
January 1, 2001... Here was an industry which feared neither locusts nor cattle diseases, neither drought nor summer floods. Its product always commanded a ready sale in the financial centres of the world. War or peace, depression or inflation--none seemed to...
Can South Africa Avoid a Malthusian Positive Check?
January 1, 2001... ... both historically and philosophically the doctrine of Malthus was a corrective reaction against the superficial optimism diffused by the school of Rousseau. It was the same optimism, with its easy methods of regenerating society and its...
AIDS: Losing "The New Struggle"?(South Africa)
January 1, 2001... We have a noble task ahead of us--reconstruction of our country. We cannot afford to allow the AIDS epidemic to ruin the realisation of our dreams.
Chris Hani, May 1991 [1]
As A POLITICAL EXILE who had lived in African countries...
Education and Democracy in South Africa Today.
January 1, 2001... INTRODUCTION
IN EUROPE AND NORTH AMERICA, schooling first became a government function in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, with the rise of the nation-state. But it was only in the decades after World War II that governments...
Science and Technology in South Africa: Regional Innovation Hub or Passive Consumer?
January 1, 2001... SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, AND GLOBAL CURRENTS
THE TWENTIETH CENTURY IS CHARACTERIZED, above all, by an explosive growth in knowledge, coupled with equally striking developments in technology. This has permitted access to knowledge and...
Stealing the Show? Crime and its Impact in Post-Apartheid South Africa.
January 1, 2001... ON SATURDAY NIGHT, JUNE 13, 1998, four young African men from Alexander township broke into a house in a neighboring suburb. The young men, who had been drinking heavily, found a white suburban family, the parents and two young children,...
In Search of Safety: Police Transformation and Public Responses in South Africa.
January 1, 2001... INTRODUCTION
DURING HIS TERM OF OFFICE, President Mandela laid great stress on the need for reconciliation and on the importance of developing a new South African patriotism that would shape the "rainbow nation." The newly elected...
Repackaging the Past for South African Tourism.
January 1, 2001... TOURISM TO SOUTH AFRICA is not merely a business. It is also about the packaging of images that represent the society and its past. In the 1990s, the tourist industry consolidated an image of South Africa as a "world in one country." [1] With...