From the outcome of the 2006 local elections and the state of public hospitals to environmental issues and concerns about tourism, leading South African intellectuals explore a variety of issues central to the country's development in this annual collection of essays. Insightful discussions of contemporary South Africa also address key topics such as violence against women, prison reform, the vast Zimbabwean exile community, and the role of the post-apartheid church.
From the outcome of the 2006 local elections and the state of public hospitals to environmental issues and concerns about tourism, leading South Afric...
Here are eighty-three poems on the eternal and timely themes of nature, written by both eminent poets and emerging talents. In various forms of verse, they bring to these pages a vigorous diversity of creatures, weathers, and landscapes from all regions of America. They decry ecological injuries, celebrate nature's beauties and point to its many mysteries, and bear witness to our ever-available opportunity to recognize ourselves as rightful members of the evolutionary flow of earthly life.
Poetry has a distinct and indispensable role to play in our evolving relationship with the natural...
Here are eighty-three poems on the eternal and timely themes of nature, written by both eminent poets and emerging talents. In various forms of ver...
Education for All (EFA) has been a top priority for governments and intergovernmental development agencies for the last twenty years. So far the global EFA movement has placed its principal focus on providing quality universal primary education (UPE) for all children by 2015.
The latest addition to The Open and Flexible Learning series, this bookaddresses the new challenges created by both the successes and the failures of the UPE campaign. This book advocates new approaches for providing access to secondary education for today's rapidly growing population of...
Education for All (EFA) has been a top priority for governments and intergovernmental development agencies for the last twenty years. So far the gl...
The South African general elections of April 2009 were the most momentous and important since the 'miracle' elections for a democratic Parliament in 1994.
The South African general elections of April 2009 were the most momentous and important since the 'miracle' elections for a democratic Parliament in 1...
Publication of the New South African Review, produced from the department of sociology at the University of the Witwatersrand, represents the launch of an exciting new annual series of studies in South African politics, economics, and society. Drawing together original contributions, Volume 1 2010 will range widely over South Africa's location in the global economic crisis, the mounting environmental challenges facing the country, and the extent of poverty and unemployment through to the state of Zuma's ANC, land reform, and other critical issues confronting South African...
Publication of the New South African Review, produced from the department of sociology at the University of the Witwatersrand, represe...
