Understanding Apartheid in South Africa through the Racial Contract

Mhlauli, Mavis B.; Salani, End; Mokotedi, Rosinah

doi:10.18488/journal.1/2015.5.4/1.4.203.209

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“…The transport system was a reflection of the spatial arrangements of the apartheid system-the previous political and social system of racial segregation and discrimination enforced by the white minority population. 23 As indicated earlier, the introduction of the applicationbased Uber service to the South African transport industry has had mixed reactions. The South African transport industry has been plagued by a number of problems, primarily as a result of the way urbanization was promoted, to only cater for the white minority race, while the majority black population struggled.…”

Section: Uber In South Africamentioning

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Behavioural Intention Factors Influencing Sharing Economy Innovations: An Exploratory Research of Uber in South Africa

Molobi

Kabiraj

Siddik

2020

Metamorphosis: A Journal of Management Research

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This research explores factors associated with the use of the Uber application, a successful sharing economy innovation, in South Africa. The exploratory research adapted a technology acceptance model with two other factors, perceived risks and company characteristics on behavioural intention to utilize Uber. Using a survey data of 396 respondents, this research empirically finds that ease of use, company characteristics, attitude, perceived usefulness, and level of education have significant positive impacts on behavioural intention to use Uber applications. Meanwhile, gender and age groups have negative impacts on behavioural intention. Furthermore, the study found that perceived risk has a negative impact on behavioural intention to use Uber. The research findings are of significance for management on how user insights can be applied to take advantage of new prospects to innovate and to expand their businesses and for policymakers on how to seize the opportunities presented by such innovation and develop appropriate policy frameworks.

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Section: Uber In South Africamentioning

confidence: 99%

Behavioural Intention Factors Influencing Sharing Economy Innovations: An Exploratory Research of Uber in South Africa

Molobi

Kabiraj

Siddik

2020

Metamorphosis: A Journal of Management Research

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“…In South Africa, socioeconomic status is more prominent due to the history of racial disparity that was legislated under the apartheid system (Seekings, 2011;Mhlauli et al, 2015). These racial disparities have affected every aspect of life, leaving South Africa with immense income disparities, which rank amongst the highest in the world.…”

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The Association Between Sexual Behaviours and Initiation of Post-Secondary Education in South Africa

2018

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Although young people in South Africa are growing up in an era where their socioeconomic circumstances are seemingly better than those of their parents' generation, they face greater risks in their trajectory to adulthood. This is mainly because the environment in which they are making sexual decisions is also rapidly evolving. Currently, South Africa has the highest prevalence of HIV and AIDS in the world among young people aged 15-24. This study examined the effect of sexual behaviours initiated in adolescence on enrolment in post-secondary education. The analysis was conducted using data from the longitudinal Cape Area Panel Study (CAPS, Waves 1-5) conducted in 2002-2009, which focused on young people's sexual behaviours in Cape Town, South Africa. The sample was restricted to 3213 individuals who reported sexual debut during adolescence. Using logistic regression models fitted separately for males and females, the results revealed that several factors acted as either hindrances or protective factors to enrolment in post-secondary education. Early sexual debut (by age 17) was negatively associated with participation in tertiary education. Other variables that had a negative effect included not using contraception at first sex, parenthood, engaging in risky behaviours such as illegal substance use, cigarette smoking and drinking alcohol and neglect of school homework (doing less than an hour a day). Higher levels of parental education (except for paternal education in the female model), urban residence and higher aspirations and analogous behaviours (studying) acted as protective factors and were positively associated with post-secondary education initiation. The paper also points to the relationship between early sexual debut and persistent socioeconomic inequality and provides empirical evidence for re-thinking policy development and implementation around schooling and sex education.

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“…On the issue of race, the experience of South Africa provides a relevant example regarding building of governing structure premised on Apartheid. According to Mhlauli et al (2015), the Apartheid regime of South Africa constituted an official racist policy that entailed segregation of the black communities. In fact, institution of education policy was primarily designed to reinforce the dominance of Afrikaner minority against the blacks among other tenets of racism.…”

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Postcolonial Perspectives of Terrorism in John Updike’s Terrorist and Yasmina Khadra’s the Attack

Mabonga¹

2021

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This study examines the postcolonial concepts of centralization and peripherization as depicted in terrorist by john updike and the attack by yasmina khadra. It also seeks to establish aspects of convergence between the centre and periphery as brought out in the two texts. Most studies within postcolonial framework have interrogated the tension immanent in the relationship between the west and the east in the context of cultural, political and racial subjugation of the former against the latter. However, studies which tackle the phenomenon of terrorism fiction within the postcolonial framework are scanty. This study attempted to fill the gap by investigating the occidental and oriental aspects of terrorism in terrorist and the attack. It also sought to determine elements of convergence in the relationship between the east and the west. The objectives of the study were concerned with examining the occidental perspectives in terrorist and the oriental perspectives in the attack. A third objective sought to explore concurrent elements in the occident vs orient dichotomy. The exploration exposed how terrorist portrays elements of domination and hegemony personified in the occident and how the attack depicts instances of protest and resistance typified in the orient. Within the paradigm of postcolonialism, the study adopted orientalism as postulated by edward said to examine how a dominating framework, the colonizer, exercises power and oppression against the protest and resistance of the marginalized, the colonized. The ideas of homi bhabha and gayatri spivak were also used to investigate the nature of resistance performed by the oppressed. A review of literature showed that the dichotomy of the centre vs the periphery is evident in fictionalization of terrorism hence the rationale for this study. The study relied on qualitative research design. Analysis of content involved a reading of the two texts under study which were purposively sampled. Subsequently, the occident and orient relationship is shown to be belied with power imbalances that occasions tension and conflict. An integrative approach that investigated how the tenuous relationship between the west and east can nevertheless find concurrence was also performed. This study shows that aspects of domination and hegemony are predominant in the occident's perception of the east and its consolidation of the centre. Further, discourse constitutes an integral cog of the western domination and imperialism. But the study also demonstrates that, the orient performs a mix of redemptive initiatives geared towards the resistance and contestation of the colonial discourse. Whereas the discordant nature of the occident vs orient relationship is rife with tension and incongruence, the study was still able to identify components of convergence which ultimately amalgamated the west vs east divide in the analysis of terrorist and the attack. The study concludes, the tendency of the west to ascribe unto itself power and authority of domination can be challenged and contested at...

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Understanding Apartheid in South Africa through the Racial Contract

Abstract: This article examines apartheid in South Africa and uses Mills (1992)

Cited by 15 publications

References 9 publications

Behavioural Intention Factors Influencing Sharing Economy Innovations: An Exploratory Research of Uber in South Africa

Behavioural Intention Factors Influencing Sharing Economy Innovations: An Exploratory Research of Uber in South Africa

The Association Between Sexual Behaviours and Initiation of Post-Secondary Education in South Africa

Postcolonial Perspectives of Terrorism in John Updike’s Terrorist and Yasmina Khadra’s the Attack

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