The racialization of animal advocacy in South Africa

Ethnicities ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 146879682094676
Author(s):  
Luis Cordeiro-Rodrigues
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Cape Town ◽  
Faculty Members ◽  
Black Faculty ◽  
Racial Justice ◽  
Animal Product ◽  
Animal Advocacy ◽  
History Of ◽  
University Of Cape Town ◽  
The University

In 2015, some faculty at the University of Cape Town made a proposal to the Faculty of Humanities that no animal product be served at faculty events. Many black faculty members contested the proposal on the grounds that it was racist and disavowed the importance of the proposal. In this article, I wish to argue that the proposal’s approach neglects the racialized history of animal advocacy in South Africa, while also being carried out at an inopportune time and context. Consequently, it racializes the debate on animal advocacy in South Africa to the extent that it contributes to the African faculty’s disavowal of the proposal and of animal injustice in general. Nevertheless, I also argue that the proposal could have been more successful if it had integrated racial justice concerns and African elements. This is the case because there are good reasons for Africans to support animal justice. Particularly, in the case of South Africa, it can be argued that addressing animal justice is beneficial for improving Africans’ health, a contribution to the elimination of environmental injustice and helpful for Africanizing institutions.

Manufacturing dissent: The racialization of opposition to animal advocacy in South Africa

Ethnicities ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 146879682110205
Author(s):  
Elisa Galgut ◽  
Michael Glover
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Cape Town ◽  
Animal Products ◽  
Animal Advocacy ◽  
Humanities Faculty ◽  
History Of ◽  
University Of Cape Town ◽  
The University

In 2015, some members of the Humanities Faculty at the University of Cape Town proposed that animal products be taken off the menu at official Faculty functions. The proposal was rejected. Cordeiro-Rodrigues, in his paper “The racialization of animal advocacy in South Africa”, this journal, blames the proposers for this rejection, claiming that “the proposal’s approach neglects the racialized history of animal advocacy in South Africa, while also being carried out at an inopportune time and context.” We dispute Cordeiro-Rodrigues’ claims on a number of grounds, and argue that not only does he fail to substantiate his claims against the proposers, he also mischaracterizes the history of animal advocacy in South Africa, and, most worryingly, ignores the immense suffering perpetrated on animals in animal agribusiness.

scholarly journals South Africa: Restitution, equality and justice

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 996-1001
Author(s):  
L. S. Ruban
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Cape Town ◽  
Residential Areas ◽  
Difficult Situation ◽  
South Africans ◽  
History Of ◽  
University Of Cape Town ◽  
The University ◽  
Civilized Society ◽  
White Minority

The article is a review of the book Another Country. Everyday Social Restitution by Charlene Schwartz (Cape Town; 2016). The author believes that the history of South Africa is complex and contradictory, and the problem of equality, justice and regulation of race relations is actual under overcoming the apartheid - when passions ran high, and black South Africans want to put an end to the shameful past, when their human dignity was violated, their children did not have a decent future, because they could not get education and profession, and the cherished dream of the black child was to become white. Schwartz shows that the life of the black majority has improved in both financial and educational terms, and all changes were enshrined in law; however, in the psychological perspective, there is still a feeling of inferiority, which determines not only pain and shame, but also anger and aggression, especially among young people, and leads to calls for violence against the white minority. On the other hand, the white minority is stressed due to the transition from the privileged position to the outcasts, is often removed from prestigious jobs and elite residential areas, and the very survival of the white population often demands self-isolation. Several generations of Afrikaners consider South Africa their homeland and do not want to leave it despite all threats. Thus, the question is how to reconcile two opposing groups and ensure racial peace. This difficult situation is studied by Schwartz with trainings at the University of Cape Town - together with her students she searches for a decision urgently needed for survival and a civilized society.

scholarly journals Library Cape town (Following the Colloquium of the International Association of Bibliophiles)

2015 ◽  
pp. 89-94
Author(s):  
Valerij P. Leonov
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
South African ◽  
International Association ◽  
Cape Town ◽  
National Library ◽  
History Of ◽  
University Of Cape Town ◽  
The University ◽  
Academy Of Sciences ◽  
Private Collections

International Association of Bibliophiles (IAB), established in 1961 in Paris, brings together librarians, publishers, collectors of rare books, conservators, conservation specialists, bookbinders, businessmen, lawyers, and diplomats. The Library of the Russian Academy of Sciences (BAN) is the Member of the IAB since 1994. BAN became the organizer of the Colloquium in St. Petersburg. Meetings of bibliophiles are held annually in different countries. The article presents the activities of the Colloquium of bibliophiles in Cape town (South Africa) in 2002. There are described the exhibitions of books, manuscripts and documents from the collections of the Library of Center of Books in Cape town, the National Library of South Africa, Library of the University of Cape town, University of Stellenbosch, library of the English and South African Politician Cecil John Rhodes and private collections. Exhibition materials reflect the history of African book culture.

South Africa's First Bill of Rights: Random Recollections of One of it's Drafters

2004 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 313-321
Author(s):  
Hugh Corder
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Cape Town ◽  
Public Law ◽  
Bill Of Rights ◽  
Constitutional History ◽  
History Of ◽  
International Audience ◽  
Special Occasion ◽  
University Of Cape Town ◽  
The University

It is an honor to have been invited to deliver this paper on my experiences as a member of the group drafting South Africa's first Bill of Rights in the course of the constitutional negotiations in 1993 to such an august international audience. I am also very pleased to be sharing the podium with Christina Murray, since we were student contemporaries (although at neighboring universities) and have been close colleagues in the Department of Public Law at the University of Cape Town since early 1988. Despite our close working relationship over these years, however, I think that this is the first occasion upon which we have talked jointly about our experiences in assisting the drafting of the Constitution, which makes it a special occasion for us, too. Mine will be a very personal recollection and assessment of a period in the constitutional history of South Africa which I never believed possible, let alone that I should have played a small part in it.

van Wyk Louw, Nicolaas Petrus (1906–1970)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Heilna du Plooy
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
South African ◽  
Cape Town ◽  
Western Cape ◽  
The Family ◽  
South African Literature ◽  
Literature History ◽  
Faculty Of Education ◽  
University Of Cape Town ◽  
The University

N. P. Van Wyk Louw is regarded as the most prominent poet of the group known as the Dertigers, a group of writers who began publishing mainly in the 1930s. These writers had a vision of Afrikaans literature which included an awareness of the need of thematic inclusiveness, a more critical view of history and a greater sense of professionality and technical complexity in their work. Van Wyk Louw is even today considered one of the greatest poets, essayists and thinkers in the Afrikaans language. Nicolaas Petrus van Wyk Louw was born in 1906 in the small town of Sutherland in the Western Cape Province of South Africa. He grew up in an Afrikaans-speaking community but attended an English-medium school in Sutherland as well as in Cape Town, where the family lived later on. He studied at the University of Cape Town (UCT), majoring in German and Philosophy. He became a lecturer at UCT, teaching in the Faculty of Education until 1948. In 1949 he became Professor of South African Literature, History and Culture at the Gemeentelijke Universiteit van Amsterdam. In 1960 he returned to South Africa to become head of the Department of Afrikaans and Dutch at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johanneshurg. He filled this post until his death in 1970.

scholarly journals Supernumerary registrar experience at the University of Cape Town, South Africa

2016 ◽  
Vol 107 (1) ◽  
pp. 76 ◽  
Author(s):  
S Peer ◽  
S A Burrows ◽  
N Mankahla ◽  
J J Fagan
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Cape Town ◽  
University Of Cape Town ◽  
The University

scholarly journals Web-based Teaching Radio Interferometer for Africa

2015 ◽  
Vol 11 (A29A) ◽  
pp. 397-397
Author(s):  
Claude Carignan ◽  
Yannick Libert
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Very Long Baseline Interferometry ◽  
Cape Town ◽  
Radio Interferometer ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Long Baseline ◽  
The Future ◽  
University Of Cape Town ◽  
The University ◽  
The Web

AbstractThis presentation describes the web-based Teaching Radio Interferometer being built on the campus of the University of Cape Town, in South Africa, to train the future users of the African VLBI (Very Long Baseline Interferometry) Network (AVN).

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