In this issue Lorraine Roubertie presents “Jazz in South Africa after 1994: Heritage and Transformations” and Thomas Guignard looks at “South African and the Internet”. English version Version française  

or the Invention of a South African Youth Political Organisation. The African National Congress Youth League (ANCYL) is the youth political organisation of the ANC. It was (re)invented in 1990, when the liberation movement resettled in South Africa after being unbanned. The organisation was re-launched on the basis of the South African Youth Congress (SAYCO), […]

In this issue, we present APORDE, the African Programme on Rethinking Development Economics, and Pele le Pele, programme on the “Development and Modernisation of African Languages”. English version Version française      

This issue gives a place of honour to History and Archaeology during the second semester of 2006. English version Version française      

Representations of South Africa in Television Commercials. The essential question “what has really changed for South Africans since 1990?” cannot be answered by merely describing physical and visible changes as these may only touch the surface of society. For a more comprehensive picture which looks at the complexities of change, one has to try and […]

Transition Accomplished? For the past ten years, South Africa has been progressively coming out of the apartheid system. Although all ties with the former regime have been severed completely, managing the heavy structural legacy has made the transition a difficult as well as an ambivalent proces. The contributions gathered in this book will try to […]

GERMAIN, Eric, 2006, Paris, Karthala; Johannesburg, IFAS ISBN: 2-84586-710-7 Coll. Homme et Société : Histoire et géographie [Book in French]   The position occupied by Muslims in South African society is disproportionate to their numbers; taking an interest in their history brings new light on three centuries of European domination in Southern Africa. From the […]

(ex. Port Elizabeth) MORANGE, Marianne, 2006, Paris, Karthala; Johannesburg, IFAS ISBN: 2-84586-770-0 Coll. Hommes et sociétés; Collection directed by Jean Copans [Book in French]   This work is based on a doctoral thesis in Urban Planning that was defended at the Institut Français d’Urbanisme in 2001. Twelve years after the abolition of apartheid, it offers […]

Transcontinentales – sociétés, idéologies, système mondial, Dossier “Afrique plurielle”, n°2, 2006, Paris, Armand Colin. Ce deuxième numéro de Transcontinentales, nouvelle revue des instituts français à l’étranger, consacre son dossier à l’Afrique. Une Afrique qu’on connaît surtout par ses désastres, ses tueries et ses massacres ; une Afrique des crises de l’État, des échecs de la […]

This issue contains an interview with philospher and author Rada Ivekovic, and programme upodates on “The role of education in the construction of a participatory and multi-cultural democratic model in South Africa” and “The place of local participation in a democratising country: decentralisation, local councillors and civil society in post-apartheid Johannesburg, Ekurhuleni and Cape Town”. […]