Transformation 

About: Transformation is an academic journal published by SAGE Publishing. The journal publishes majorly in the area(s): Identity (social science) & Context (language use). It has an ISSN identifier of 0265-3788. Over the lifetime, 498 publications have been published receiving 2203 citations. The journal is also known as: An international journal of holistic mission studies.

What's in a name? Racial categorisations under apartheid and their afterlife

Abstract: Among the many paradoxes of South Africa’s transition from apartheid, one of the more obvious and prominent concerns the fate of race. We have been entrusted with a new democratic constitution that enshrines a thoroughgoing commitment to non-racialism, invoking the claim to our common humanity as the basis for the allocation of shared human rights and the eradication of discrimination. But this juridical assertion of human sameness cohabits with existential reiterations of racial difference and separation. An interesting survey conducted by the Institute for Justice and Reconciliation gives some indication of the lingering power of racial reasoning in the everyday lives of South African citizens. Disturbing proportions of respondents make lifestyle choices and judgements about others that reiterate and entrench existing norms of racial separateness. While it might be unsurprising that 51 percent of whites surveyed agreed that ‘despite abuses, apartheid ideas were good ones’, it is striking that 35.5 percent of Africans, 34 percent of Coloureds and 42 percent of Indians thought likewise. According to the survey, several of the markers of a strong sense of racial distance are more prominent among Africans than whites. For example, 56 percent of Africans, 33.4 percent of whites, 26.6 percent of Coloureds and 41.6

COVID-19 Shows the Need to Make Church More Flexible

Abstract: The COVID-19 challenge is unprecedented. It has caused enormous trauma, disrupted economies, social life, mass transportation, work and employment, supply chains, leisure, sport, international rela...

High Productivity Now: A Critical Review of South Africa's Growth Strategy

Abstract: In order to make any dent on unemployment, South Africa's growth path needs to become significantly more labour-demanding. But what is the best way of achieving that end? On the face of it, the problem is simple: job creation depends crucially on investment growth, hence appropriate strategies are those which encourage capital accumulation and ensure that as many jobs as possible are created per unit of investment. But this apparently focussed answer raises two further fundamental questions: what drives investment; and what kind of investment is best suited to sustainable, labour-demanding growth?

Where green turns to gold: strip cultivation and the Gold Coast hinterland

Abstract: The social and cultural relationships between a rapidly expanding coastal tourist city (the Gold Coast) and its hinterland are explored through the analysis of local media representations.