Routledge/UNISA Press Series
Social Memory as a Force for Social and Economic Transformation
1st Edition
Edited
By Muxe Nkondo
October 09, 2024
This volume of essays is a reflection on social memory as a force for social and economic transformation. Written by scholars and organic intellectuals, it focuses on the uses of social memory, in particular the conflict between the legacies of colonialism and the movement for fundamental change. ...
Spiritual Path, Spiritual Reality: Selected Writings of Shaykh Yusuf of Macassar
1st Edition
Edited
By Yousuf Dadoo, Auwais Rafudeen
October 09, 2024
A prominent mystic and renowned anti-colonial warrior from Indonesia, Shaykh Yusuf of Macassar (1626–1699), was exiled to South Africa where he played a pioneering role in laying the foundations of Islam. Offering a rich translation of Shaykh Yusuf’s Arabic writings, Spiritual Path, Spiritual ...
The 'Valiant Englishman': Christopher Bethell, Montshiwa’s Barolong and the Bechuanaland Wars, 1878–1886
1st Edition
By Andrew Manson
October 09, 2024
This book describes the career of an English aristocrat, Christopher Bethell, who arrives in southern Africa in 1878 as the classic "remittance" man, despatched to the colonies to avoid a scandal at home. Bethell, an intelligence officer and later, a border agent, is the protagonist who facilitated...
Transito: The Truth behind the Big-Money Robberies
1st Edition
By Hennie Lochner, Peet van Staden
October 09, 2024
This book is an important resource for the cash in transit (CIT) companies, financial services industries and criminal justice system. With one of the authors having used convicts of CIT crimes as participants for a PhD study, he solicited data from the lived experiences of CIT robbers that ...
Corporate Governance in Zimbabwe’s Public Entities: Comparisons with South Africa and Australia
1st Edition
By Nomsa Jane Moyo
August 26, 2024
This study focuses on the corporate governance initiatives, laws and regulations aimed at enhancing the effectiveness of boards of public entities in Zimbabwe. The key question addressed is whether or not the corporate governance initiatives and legal and regulatory reforms in Zimbabwe are ...
Media Diversity in South Africa: New Concepts from the Global South
1st Edition
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By Julie Reid
August 26, 2024
This timely book argues that the Global North’s research methods and traditional assumptions are not valid to the media landscapes and audiences of the Global South. With South Africa as the focus, the authors offer a new understanding of media diversity along an audience-centred approach. ...
The God in Us: How African Spirituality Ignited World Religion and Global Civilisation
1st Edition
By Hlumelo Biko
June 07, 2024
This book traces the unitary source of all of the world’s major religions. The book underscores the fact that there are many ways in which humanity has sought revelation of God, yet there is a common inspiration behind humanity’s God concept. The author’s analysis of world religions or faiths ...
Opportunities for Biomass and Organic Waste Valorisation: Finding Alternative Solutions to Disposal in South Africa
1st Edition
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By Linda Godfrey, Johann F. Görgens, Henry Roman
July 07, 2021
Following an active science-meets-industry approach on dealing with biomass and organics waste streams, this timely book foregrounds key issues facing South African policy makers, industry practitioners and scholars. The editors drew together a wide pool of experts in the biomass and organic ...