Addressing Historical Inequalities in Institutions of Higher Learning in South Africa: The Government's Response to Student Protests and Movements | Chapter 7 | Progress in Language, Literature and Education Research Vol. 5

This study investigated whether democratic South Africa embraces democratic principles to respond to domestic problems or is merely an extension of colonial and apartheid states in implementing the same brutal means to address the challenges it faces. In contrast to the colonial and apartheid policies which resolved challenges through violence carried out by police, army, imprisonment, exile, or banishment from the country against protesters who demanded democratic rights, democratic states are expected to use democratic means such as engagement, negotiation, discussion, persuasion, and participation. This is a qualitative study that used secondary data extracted through the desktop.  The reviews of journal articles, newspaper articles, and books were done to obtain data for this study. The study has found that democratic South Africa still embraced the same violence meted out by colonial and apartheid machinery to suppress demands from its citizens. Finally, it found that decolonization in South Africa was about the replacing of a ‘species’ of men with another ‘species’ of men without any change towards addressing student problems. This is revealed by the manner it handled the #FeesMustFall campaign. #FeesMustFall leaders as students were shot at, arrested, and imprisoned in the same jails built and used by the colonial and apartheid states. During the 1976 uprisings, the apartheid state unleashed its army and police on black children, with arrested, and murdered, others were forced into exile. This study recommends that South Africa should adopt democratic means that are within the parameters of human rights to resolve issues.

Author(s) Details:

Mavhungu Elias Musitha,
Department of Development Studies, University of South Africa (UNISA), Pretoria, 0001, South Africa.

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Recovery from Fire Hazzard in Informal Settlements of the Western Cape Province, South Africa | Chapter 2 | Contemporary Perspective on Science, Technology and Research Vol. 3

 On west side when facing north Africa has been through a ending of evolution from colonialism, to racism to democracy and informal conclusions have become a important social problem in the post – racism South Africa. Fire hazards are suitable prevalent and has had a serious impact primarily on the poor and marginalised. Informal buildings are often built nearly each other and as a result fires frequently spread quickly that could result in demolition of the structures, serious harms and sometimes lead to a attainable death.  As a result, the results can be catastrophic. Then, the aim of this study is to investigate and examine the existent recovery strategies secondhand by ordinary communities and administration interventions and how two together are combined to assist communities to manage and recover from fire hazards. In order to realize the above objective, this desktop study depended secondary dossier as sources of information. They contained the existing reports, available history, experts and professional’s analysis, societies’ testimonies available connected to the internet in the form of audios YouTube videos. Television, Transmission News, interviews provided rich facts to the study. The findings have proved that the impact of fire hazards is devastating are becoming weighty threat to safety of simple dwellers. The communities contend and recover from fire hazards.  Communities counter as the disaster occurs. Moreover, the findings showed that while the administration has intervened this has enhance a major issue that requires administration intervention.

Author(s) Details:

Joseph Rudigi Rukema,
School of Social Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.

Soomaya Khan,
School of Social Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.

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Historical Antecedents and Contemporary Challenges of the Legislatures in Africa | Chapter 11 | Recent Trends in Arts and Social Studies Vol. 2

 The study examined the historical ancestries of the underdevelopment of Africa’s representative institutions. Despite allure global predominance, the author eminent that the legislature has existed involved in struggles for political capacity and relevance across governmental systems. The general resurgence of democracy accompanying the attendant collapse of global socialism in the last decade of the Twentieth Century has interpreted to increased perceptibility for the legislatures as many African dictatorships got swept continuously by the waves, inflicting a return to self-governing rule. But then, the democratic governments excessively weighed governmental capacities in favour of the executive. The author considered in what way or manner ‘Colonialism in Africa shapedAfrican experiences, in relation to the legislature. In many nations, the legislatures were part of the pioneering governmental machinery handed over at or before independence. In the position, the workings and challenges of representative organizations in Africa had to be implicit within the framework of the historical forces that shaped and resumed to shape their emergence and modern relevance. The author recognized people-centred constitutional re-engineering, full of enthusiasm posture on the part of legislators themselves, and revised capacity-construction supports tailored towards the needs and oddities of individual parliaments as the irreducible minimum for strengthening the legislatures and designing responsive and taxpayers-friendly surroundings for sustainable democracy and good government in Africa.

Author(s) Details:

Mojeed Olujinmi A. Alabi,
Department of Public and International Law, Osun State University, Nigeria.

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Reconnoitering Settler Colonization Part I: Its Philosophy and Praxis | Chapter 8 | Research Developments in Arts and Social Studies Vol. 5

The overview covers colonial studies, poststructuralism (with its emphasis on using language [rhetorics] as a tool of comprehending, controlling, and subjugating others), and the emergence of postcolonial studies after that. This analysis sheds light on postcolonial studies' flaws, including their emphasis on theoretical consistency at the expense of cultural and historical distinctiveness, their fixation on the past, and their obscuring of the existence of settler colonial regimes or circumstances in modern civilizations. As a result, they begin a study of settler-colonization on a worldwide scale from the time of the Bible to the present, paying close attention to its nature, ideology, methods, and practise. The theoretical foundation is based on settler-colonial studies, a growing field, and the approach includes literary and historical study. Part II of the project, which will apply settler-colonial studies to the situation in Nigeria, is laid out in this essay.

Author(s) Details:

Cephas T. A. Tushima,

University of South Africa (UNISA), City of Tshwane, South Africa.

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Fanonian Decolonization and Purple hibiscus | Book Publisher International

 The book Fanonian Decolonization and Purple Hibiscus aims to highlight the irreconcilable cultural contrasts that exist between the colonising West and the colonised Igbo in order to demonstrate how the Igbo tribe separates itself from the colonial dominance of the West. Purple Hibiscus is well recognised for being a work about the protagonist Kambili and her brother Jaja's coming-of-age storey. In Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Purple Hibiscus, the concept of Fanonin decolonization and the use of violence delve into the text's decolonizing depths. It explores the depths of power relationships produced by colonial control and colonialism, particularly through the introduction of Christianity, Western language, and Occidental cultures.

Author(s) Detalis

Aby John
Researcher, Postgraduate and Research Department of English, Presidency College (Autonomous), Chennai, India.

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