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    Islamic Politics in South Africa between Identity and Utopia
    (2008) Tayob, Abdulkader
    This article identifies three sites of Islamic politics in South Africa for closer and critical analysis and appraisal. It proposes that Islamic politics inscribed an idealistic vision for the future. It promoted a utopian vision that was by definition unattainable. Secondly, the paper argues that Islamic politics was preoccupied with representation, a relentless and somewhat impossible task of representing Islam and Muslims in the public. Utopia and perfect representation, then, were the chimeral quests of Islamic politics.
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    The judiciary and government
    (2014-09-23) Davis, Dennis; Le Roux, Michelle
    This lecture series will be of interest to law students, legal practitioners and others in fields related to human rights, freedom of information and the reform and redistribution of land. Lecture series coordinated by Judge Dennis Davis, Judge of the High Court of South Africa & Michelle le Roux, Advocate of the High Court and Senior Visiting Fellow, Mandela Institute, Wits Law School. Tension between the elected government and the judiciary is common in constitutional democracies which feature the separation of powers between the judiciary, executive and legislature. However, in South Africa, concerns about excessive judicial intervention in politics and the unsuitability of our constitution to the social and economic developmental needs of the country have increasingly become more vocal. This lecture series will consider the role of the judiciary in our developing country as it strives to embed constitutional democracy. It will look at the dangers of judicial over- or under-reach and the possible threats to and opportunities for our constitutional model. Two panel discussions will focus on recent challenges related to land reform and information freedom respectively. LECTURE TITLES: *1. The good, bad and ugly: models of constitutional adjudication - Michelle le Roux; *2. How have we done? An examination of court success and failure through key cases - Judge Dennis Davis; *3. Panel on slow land reform and redistribution: the challenge to align the constitution - Mazibuko Jara (Law, Race & Gender Research Unit, UCT); *4. Panel on media and information freedoms under threat - Okyerebea Ampofo-Anti; *5. How concerned should we be about our constitutional health? - Judge Dennis Davis & Michelle le Roux.
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    Media and National Development Policy
    (2013) Saleh, Ibrahim
    This lecture introduces the role of media in national development. This particular lecture series explores the role of communication in the development of an effective socio-political relationship between the government and its people, and the development of effective information and innovation dissemination models to encourage the development of a national discourse. Part 1 of a series on the role of the media in national development.
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    Media and National Development Policy (3)
    (2013) Saleh, Ibrahim
    Part three in a series on the role of the media in national development. This lecture explores the different developmental paradigms that have informed South Africa's approach to using the media for the cause of national development. Specific topics discussed include the conceptualisation of information literacy in the South African school curriculum and the role of ICTs in national development.
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    Media and National Development Policy (5)
    (2014) Saleh, Ibrahim
    This lecture looks at the role of the media in South Africa's national development paradigm. Part 5 of the lecture series on the role of the media in national development policy. Click for Part 5.
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    Media and National Development Policy (6)
    (2014) Saleh, Ibrahim
    This lecture looks at the role of the media in disseminating and developing information about climate change in South Africa. Part 6 of the lecture series on the role of the media in national development policy.
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    Media and National Development Policy (8)
    (2014) Saleh, Ibrahim
    This is the final lecture series in the Media and Development set, focusing on the interplay (or lack thereof) of public and academic journalism in South Africa, including media reform and the democracy. Part 4 of the lecture series on the role of the media in national development policy.
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    Media and National Development Policy - 7
    (2013) Saleh, Ibrahim
    These lecture notes looks explore the role of the media in the development, refinement and criticism of the 'African Renaissance' concept, specifically with regard to the development of a shared social imaginary or political vocabulary in South Africa. This resource is part of the Media and National Development in South Africa lecture series.
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    Media Representations of Gender-Based Violence Against Black Women: A Decolonial Feminist Analysis
    (2024) Thusi, Khanyisile S; Boonzaier, Floretta
    Gender-based violence (GBV) is a well-known problem, with South Africa having one of the highest rates of GBV in the world. Additionally, South African media plays a role in how and what information about GBV is disseminated. This work looks at two case studies to investigate how the media represents GBV against black women in the South African context. It uses Decolonial Feminist theory to frame and contextualise current forms of violence against black women, to the colonial history of violence against them. This approach serves to call attention to the fact that GBV against black women does not exist simply as a problem of the present. Instead, there are narrative and physical continuities of the historical dynamics of power and domination against black women, that have founded GBV's present state, and which allow it to continue. These colonial narratives and the violences they perpetuate must be investigated in the various ways in which they may manifest themselves, such as through the media. This research draws to light the ways in which the media reinforces narratives that further marginalise black women, and in so doing, perpetuate black women and their bodies as sites of violence. The project explores how black women are decentred from their own stories and experiences of GBV, and how this decentring is normalised. It also seeks to further the work within Decolonial Feminism of conscientising society to the colonial legacies of violence perpetrated against black women. Finally, it poses questions concerning black women's positionality and safety within primary modalities of justice that exist within and from colonial structures of the law and criminality.
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    The men who shaped the South African media: the untold story
    (2014-09-29) Matisonn, John
    The media was one of the first sectors to change in South Africa after apartheid. This three-lecture course will argue that its future is now at risk not only because of government measures such as the Secrecy Bill but also because of changes of ownership amid the technological revolution. The course will draw on new research as well as the lecturer’s firsthand knowledge of key events, including the original exposés of the Broederbond and Muldergate, apartheid era attempts to stop reporting on corruption, the downfall of the Rand Daily Mail, the establishment of the Nigerian-backed and short-lived THISDAY newspaper, the Truth Commission hearings on the media, and the opening of the airwaves after 1994. It will describe the influence of two men who set the philosophy of the SABC: Lord John Reith, founder of the BBC, and Dr Piet Meyer, a Nationalist leader. The role of Charles Bloomberg, a journalist who pioneered the exposure of Meyer and the Afrikaner Broederbond, will be explored, as will Muldergate, the scandal driven by Prime Minister John Vorster’s determination to stop the anti-apartheid Rand Daily Mail newspaper. The course will show how the apartheid government spent millions of rands to influence, buy, bribe or close newspapers and media, civil society organisations and churches around the world. The final lecture will explain how the media changed at the end of apartheid, how the Truth Commission hearings on the media influenced that change, the new era of the Secrecy Bill and new ownership of key media institutions.
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    Reporting on children in the context of HIV/AIDS: a journalist's resource
    (Children's Institute, 2005) Bird, William; Bray, Rachel; Harries, Gemma; Meintjes, Helen; Monson, Jo; Ridgard, Natalie
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    Revolution in Egypt and the Middle East
    (2014-09-08) Pallo, Jordan Z.; Jeppie, Shamil; Saleh, Ibrahim; Tayob, Abdulkader
    This lecture can be used to supplement lectures in history, film and media or politics related to the 2011 revolution in Egypt. The lecture can be used as a general interest podcast. This seminar discusses the revolution in Egypt and the Middle East, specifically: 1. Events in Egypt and how it relates to politics in Africa and South Africa 2. Events that led to the revolt in Egypt 3. Egypt and political communication - as well as personal reflections by Dr Ibrahim Saleh 4. Role of islam and politics of the Muslim Brotherhood The image used is Victory-Crowd by darkroomproductions and is available under a Creative Commons Non Commercial Lincese.
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    The role of nostalgia in reality television’s representation of rural lives
    (2019) Edwards, Abigail; Smit, Alexia
    This dissertation examines the role of nostalgia in reality television’s representation of rural lives. My study merges a theoretical and critical investigation. I take Alaska: The Last Frontier as my case study and argue that the programme responds to social change and urban living conditions in the United States by creating a nostalgic and idealistic representation of preindustrial American life. While the text is largely reactionary and calls upon a restorative nostalgia that imagines ideal American life as rural, white and heteronormative, the show also exhibits elements of reflective nostalgia, using the Kilcher family’s lifestyle to critique contemporary late capitalist lifestyles. Furthermore, I argue that this use of nostalgia conveys a dissatisfaction with post-industrial and urban life by foregrounding an idealistic settler narrative that implies it is not through progressive reform that America will find its nostrum but through a return to conservative values. The chapters in this thesis examine aspects of contemporary urban life that have drastically changed since the onset of America’s industrial revolution. My first chapter argues that nostalgia can manifest in an individual and potentially, a nation. I also argue that reality television plays a significant role in evoking nostalgia and uses it to respond to the sociological conditions of late capitalist urban life. Chapter 2 explores the relationship between the wilderness and nostalgia. In particular, I consider how the 'frontier myth’ structures the show’s nostalgic representation of rural living. In my third chapter I discuss how Alaska: The Last Frontier evokes nostalgia for a lost sense of kinship and community, reminiscent of a preindustrial revolution American culture. This chapter also uses the condition of anomie to further understand how the seemingly disparate relationship between the urban setting in which the programme is largely consumed and the nostalgia for a sense of family and community that the programme evokes, relate. Chapter 4 argues that the representation of labour in Alaska: The Last Frontier constructs a 'fantasy of wholeness’ and that this process potentially evokes nostalgia for an idealised set of labour relations that are perceived to be lost in the late capitalist age. I present a case study from Alaska: The Last Frontier to show how the programme constructs a 'fantasy of wholeness’ through representing idealised labour relations that are in stark contrast to Marx’s theory on how capitalist labour conditions are experienced. Finally, my fifth chapter reflects on the complex and integral role that nostalgia plays in Alaska: The Last Frontier’s representation of rural lives and discusses how the work I have presented in this thesis may provide a basis for future enquiries.
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