Cet article retrace le developpement d'attitudes europeenne, blanche, concernant les comportements sexuels entre hommes dans les mines d'Afrique du Sud au debut du 20eme siecle Les tensions politiques se refletent dans les interdits d'une sexualite extra-europeenne, tel que l'expension du pouvoir portugais et la moralite britannique dans les colonnies sud-africaines

The life of a South African tribe

Randy on the Rand: Portuguese African Labor and the Discourse on "Unnatural Vice" in the Transvaal in the Early Twentieth Century

In this paper, we examine how Black youth in rural South Africa construct role models and connect them to their own life aspirations. We pay particular attention to individual and group identity development in shaping these perceptions. Based on analysis of qualitative data from 99 Black male and female youth aged 14–22, we find that 1) the choice of role models reflects a balancing strategy to reconcile individual and group identity development; 2) while the reasons they give for choosing role models are aligned with dominant models of upward mobility in the new South Africa (and globally), our respondents are also attuned to the difficulty of attaining such success and 3) the choices underscore the continued importance of close and extended kin amidst an increasingly ego focused life strategy aimed at individual status attainment. These findings can contribute to strengthening the effectiveness of intervention programs aimed at strengthening positive influences in the lives of Black youth in South Africa.

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Who Would You Like To Be Like? Family, Village, and National Role Models Among Black Youth in Rural South Africa

This paper reports on an investigation of the abilities of literates and adult nonreaders to recall and use information from a national network television news program. On a test of unaided recall of news stories the literates recalled 55% more stories than the nonreaders. On a multiple-choice test of information gain from the news program, the literates performed 63% better than the nonreaders. The samples were found to be virtually identical in their use of and opinions about television news. A control group of college students was given the information test without first seeing the news program and did no better than chance.The most important factor affecting recall was the length of time the story was on the air. Human interest stories were recalled much better by both groups than any other type of story. The level of performance among the adult nonreaders correlated highly with their reading levels.

Literacy, Illiteracy, and Learning From Television News

Abafazi Bathonga Bafihlakala

IN his 'English Contributions to Renaissance Colonisation' Professor Quinn treats one only of the interactions between humanism and overseas expansion. He does not here discuss, as he has done elsewhere, the stimulus to speculation about human history and society which was given by the discovery of new worlds of custom. He concentrates rather upon the ways in which those who advocated, planted and managed colonies were inspired by or appealed to humanist learning, and in particular the example of Rome. In much the same way I am not centrally concerned in this paper to discuss the stimulus given to academic enquiry by the intensified encounter of Europe with the rest of the world during the last hundred years. My main concern is with the ways in which those who advocated, pacified and administered colonies were inspired by or appealed to the new sciences of man. Of course, many of those who colonized Africa in the nineteenth century were themselves the product of a classical education. They continued to appeal back to the example of Rome, though this time to Imperial Rome rather than to Rome as the progenitor of colonies. His biographers tell us that the favourite saying of CecilJohn Rhodes -who carried his copy of Marcus Aurelius about with him and who was flattered to be told that he resembled Imperial Roman bustswas 'remember always that you are a Roman'.1 Rhodes' ally, Lord Grey, when Administrator in Rhodesia, deplored his predecessor's employment of Matabele policemen with the comment that 'the right principle is that followed by Caesar when he kept England quiet with a legion raised from the Danube and the Danube quiet with a British legion'.2 And Lord Lugard maintained that Britain stood in a kind of apostolic succession of empire-'as Roman 1J. G. Lockhart and C. M. Woodhouse, Rhodes, (London, 1963), p. 31. 2 Cited in T. O. Ranger, Revolt in Southern Rhodesia, 1896-7 (London, 1967), p. x9g.

The life of a South African tribe

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Randy on the Rand: Portuguese African Labor and the Discourse on "Unnatural Vice" in the Transvaal in the Early Twentieth Century

Who Would You Like To Be Like? Family, Village, and National Role Models Among Black Youth in Rural South Africa

Literacy, Illiteracy, and Learning From Television News

Abafazi Bathonga Bafihlakala

From Humanism to the Science of Man: Colonialism in Africa and the Understanding of Alien Societies

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