Author: Roger Southall Henning Melber
Publisher: HSRC Press
Keywords: power, legacies
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2006-01-02
eBookDB-ID: 0796921022

It was a widely held dominant perception until the early 1990’s that African rulers do not vacate their office alive. But even in the brutal reality of African politics, transition takes place and different former presidents have dealt with how to maintain power and priviledge very deffrently. With case studies examining the post-presidential years of the iconic Mandela in South Africa, Daniel arap Moi in Kenya, Nyerere in Tanzania, Rawlings in Ghana, Charles Taylor in Liberia, as well as the experience of Botswana, Zambia, Namibia, Zimbabwe, Uganda, Malawi, and Nigeria, this volume exam

Authors: Adrian Hadland, Eric Louw, Simphiwe Sesanti, Herman
Publisher: HSRC Press
Keywords: african, media, south, identity, politics, power
Number of Pages: 416
Published: 2008-01-02
ISBN-10: 0796922020
ISBN-13: 9780796922021

South Africa offers a rich context for the study of the interrelationship between the media and identity. The essays collected here explore the many diverse elements of this interconnection, and give fresh focus to topics that scholarship has tended to overlook, such as the pervasive impact of tabloid newspapers. Interrogating contemporary theory, the authors shed new light on how identities are constructed through the media, and provide case studies that illustrate the complex process of identity renegotiation taking place currently in post-apartheid South Africa. The contributors include est

Author: Vasu ReddyTheo Sandfort & Laetitia Rispel
Publisher: HSRC Press
Keywords: social, science, silence
Number of Pages: 296
Published: 2009-01-02
ISBN-10: 0796922764
ISBN-13: 9780796922762

This book presents a unique and innovative effort to examine what we know about homosexual transmission of HIV and AIDS in South Africa. It reverses the trend whereby categories of same sex sexual practice are almost always excluded from research of HIV and AIDS, as well as from care and intervention programmes. The varied contributors (academics, activists and programme planners) draw attention to the risk behaviours and treatment needs of people who engage in homosexual sex, and explain why same-sex sexuality has to be seen as key within South African efforts to study, test and prevent HIV i

Author: Murray Rothbard
Publisher: Ludwig von Mises Institute
Keywords: banking, mystery
Number of Pages: 298
Published: 2008-09-10
ISBN-10: 1933550287
ISBN-13: 9781933550282

Talk about great timing. Rothbard’s extraordinary book unravels the mystery of banking: what is legitimate enterprise and what is a government-backed shell game that can’t last. His explanation is clear enough for anyone to follow and yet precise and rigorous enough to be the best, textbook for college classes on the topic. This is because its expositional clarity--in its hitosry and theory--is essentially unrivaled. Most notably, he uses the T account method of explaining the relationship between deposits and loans, showing the inherent instability of fractional reserve banking a