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A first generation African community grappling with urbanisation: the views of Platfontein’s San on water and sanitation service delivery [PDF]

The Journal for Transdisciplinary Research in Southern Africa, 2014
Since their relocation in 2004 to Platfontein near Kimberley in South Africa’s Northern Cape Province, members of the !Xun and Khwe San, originally from the northern parts of Namibia and southern Angola, became a first generation African community ...
Johann Tempelhoff
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Assessing “beneficiary” communities’ participation in HIV/AIDS communication through community radio [PDF]

Communicare, 2022
This article gives account of a research study that was conducted on a “beneficiary” community’s participation in HIV/AIDS communication through a community radio station.
Siyasanga Tyali, Keyan Tomaselli
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Partager des images, repenser le patrimoine rupestre : un projet de photographie participative avec les communautés !Xun et Khwe de Platfontein (Afrique du Sud)

Nouvelles perspectives en sciences sociales
Cet article revient sur un projet de photographie participative mené en 2022 avec des communautés san en Afrique du Sud. Ce projet résulte d’une démarche à la fois participative et collaborative entre une équipe de chercheurs (projet COSMO-ART ; ANR-21-CE27-0011), des institutions universitaires et culturelles sud-africaines et deux ONG locales.
Leïla Baracchini, Mélanie Duval
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On truth-telling and storytelling: Truth-seeking during research involving communities with an oral culture and a history of violent conflict [PDF]

The Journal for Transdisciplinary Research in Southern Africa, 2014
The aim of this article is to propose some principles and practices for truth-seeking during research into violent conflict. To achieve this aim, an argument is deployed by analysing the theoretical concepts “truth”, “myth” and “oral culture” as sources ...
A G Vethuizen
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What does a photovoice project contribute to the analysis of heritage representations? A critical analysis of the "Places in Me" project with the Khwe and !Xun communities in Platfontein

In the proposed talk, we will critically assess a photovoice project co-conducted between researchers and San communities in Platfontein in 2022 and that resulted in an exhibition (opening July 2023). This project emerged from a participatory and collaborative approach involving a multidisciplinary team of researchers (ANR COSMO-ART project), South ...
Leïla Baracchini, Mélanie Duval, Moshe Maghundu, Rena Maghundu, Jakob Makai, Stéphane Hœrlé, Lourenço Pinto, Zagaria Kabinda, Karina Shiwarra, David Morris, Hugo Quemin, A. Gwynn Henderson, Nadia Bélaïdi   +12 more
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Being San' in Platfontein: Poverty, landscape, development and cultural heritage [PDF]

, 2007
As people are relocated, dispossessed of land, or experience the altered landscapes of modernity, so their way of life, values, beliefs and understandings are transformed.
Talia Soskolne
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Investigating causes of the high prevalence of sexually transmitted infections in Du Noon. [PDF]

S Afr Fam Pract (2004)
Background: In South Africa, sexually transmitted infections (STIs) represent a significant public health issue. Sexually transmitted infections contribute significantly to the burden of disease in South Africa and are recognised as one of the main ...
Dookhith ABF, Razack A, Isaacs AA.
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Language attitudes as a change agent for language vitality : a case study of two Khoesan languages in Platfontein (RSA). [PDF]

, 2017
Doctor of Philosophy in Linguistics. University of KwaZulu-Natal. Durban, 2017.Khoesan languages are considered an endangered language family. This study investigates how language attitudes influence language vitality intergenerationally in a case study
Kerry Jones
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Simulacral, genealogical, auratic and representational failure: Bushman authenticity as methodological collapse [PDF]

, 2014
This article engages with the concept of authenticity as deployed in anthropology. The first section critiques authenticity as a simple reference to cultural purity, a traditional isomorphism or historical verisimilitude or as an ‘ethnographic ...
Adorno T., Adorno T., Adorno T.W., Agamben G., Baudrillard J., Benjamin W., Berman M., Biesele M., Boydell T., Carstens P., Chanock M., Clifford J., Coetzee J.M., Derrida J., Ellis W., Erasmus P.A., Geertz C., Ghosh A., Gordon R., Guignon C.B., Heidegger M., Humphreys A.B., Isaacson R., Lindfors B., Lyotard J.F., Mahmood M., Maingard L.F., Mufti A.R., Rabinow P., Rassool C., Rheinallt J.J.D., Robins S., Roy A., Sharp J., Skotnes P., Spivak G.C., Spivak G.C., Suzman J., Tomaselli K., Tomaselli K.G., Trilling L., Walker C., Wessels M., William Ellis, Woodward W., Žižek S.   +45 more
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The quest for Great Heart Leadership to activate and promote the ending of violent conflict in Africa [PDF]

, 2016
Inspired by the never-ending quest for the end of violence in some African communities, the author asks what kind of leadership is required to lead a community from violent conf lict to peaceful coexistence.
Velthuizen, Andreas
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