Index by Issue

Alternation
Interdisciplinary Journal for the Study of

The Arts and Humanities in
Southern African
Issue Index 1994 - 2008
Compiled by
Johannes A. Smit
CSSALL
2008
Alternation Issue Index 1994 - 2008
Volume 1, Number 1, 1994

ARTICLES
Jean-Philippe Wade Introduction
Alternation 1,1 (1994) 1-7.
Helize Van Vuuren Recent Changes in South African Literary
Historiography: Theory and Practice
Alternation 1,1 (1994) 8-20.
Johan Van Wyk Dream Writing
Alternation 1,1 (1994) 21-36.
Sikhumbuzo Mngadi ‘Popular Memory’ and Social Change in South
African Historical Drama of the Seventies in English: The Case of
Credo Mutwa’s uNosilimela
Alternation 1,1 (1994) 37-41.
Jaco Alant Towards a Linguistic Definition of Orality
Alternation 1,1 (1994) 42-51.
Alan Thorold Towards an Anthropology of Writing
Alternation 1,1 (1994) 52-57.
Noleen Turner A Brief Overview of Zulu Oral Traditions
Alternation 1,1 (1994) 58-67.
Julie Pridmore The Writings of H.F. Fynn: History, Myth or Fiction?
Alternation 1,1 (1994) 68-78.
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ARTICLES
Percy More Hegel, The Black Atlantic and Mphahlele
Alternation 1,2 (1994) 2-14.
Tony Voss Avatars of Waldo
Alternation 1,2 (1994) 15-26.
David Hemson Cry, The Beloved Country: Land, Segregation and the
City
Alternation 1,2 (1994) 27-42.
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Noverino Canonici The Trickster in Zulu Folktales

Alternation 1,2 (1994) 43-56.
Helize van Vuuren Forgotten Territory: The Oral Tradition of the /
Xam
Alternation 1,2 (1994) 57-70.
Marilet Sienaert French Writing in South Africa
Alternation 1,2 (1994) 71-82.
BOOK REVIEWS
Tony Voss J.C. Kannemeyer: A History of Afrikaans Literature
Alternation 1,2 (1994) 83-84.
Alan Thorold Alan G. Morris: The Skeletons of Contact
Alternation 1,2 (1994) 85-87.
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ARTICLES
Johannes A. Smit Introduction
Alternation 2,1 (1995) 1-4.
Antony Easthope The Pleasures of Labour: Marxist Aesthetics in the
1990s
Alternation 2,1 (1995) 5-15.
Shane Moran White Mythology: What Use is Deconstruction?
Alternation 2,1 (1995) 16-36.
Sikhumbuzo Mngadi Reading in a State of Emergence: The Rhetoric
Of Cultural Transformation and the Post-colonial-Post-apartheid
Condition
Alternation 2,1 (1995) 37-45.
Jean-Philippe Wade Cultural Transformation in South Africa: The
Role of a National Literary History
Alternation 2,1 (1995) 46-50.
Johan van Wyk Social Concerns in Afrikaans Drama in the Period
1930-1940
Alternation 2,1 (1995) 51-64.
Leon de Kock Reading History as Cultural Text

Alternation 2,1 (1995) 65-78.
Hildegard van Zweel Ideological Bases of Literacy Programmes
Alternation 2,1 (1995) 79-83.
Reshma Soorajh Towards Reconstructing a Curriculum for Secondary
Schools in South Africa
Alternation 2,1 (1995) 84-93.
Michael Samuel Learning and Teaching Literature: A Curriculum
Development Perspective
Alternation 2,1 (1995) 94-107.
Nithi Muthukrishna Re-defining the Teaching of Literature in the
Primary School as Meaning Construction
Alternation 2,1 (1995) 108-116.
REVIEW ARTICLES
David Hemson Asinamali! Then and Now. A Review of: The Moon is
Dead! Give us our Money! by Keletso Atkens
Alternation 2,1 (1995) 117-146.
BOOK REVIEWS
John van Zyl Beyond a Culture of Censorship; Christopher Merrett: A
Culture of Censorship. Secrecy and Intellectual Repression in
South Africa
Alternation 2,1 (1995) 147-148.
Johan van Wyk Some Afrikaans Novels of 1993; Etienne van
Heerden: Die Stoetmeester; Eben Venter: Foxtrot van die
Vleiseters; Mark Behr: Die Reuk van Appels; Jeanne Goosen: o.a.
Daantjie Dromer; Lettie Viljoen: Karolina Fereira; Francois
Bloemhof: Die Duiwel se Tuin; Berta Smit: Juffrou Sophia Vlug
Vorentoe
Alternation 2,1 (1995) 149-151.
Helize van Vuuren Bushman and Afrikaner: Cultural Interaction; Dolf
van Niekerk: Koms van die Hyreën; Piet van Rooyen: Die
Spoorsnyer; Willem D. Kotzé: T’sats van die Kalahari
Alternation 2,1 (1995) 151-154.
Jean-Philippe Wade Recent Southern African Books from the

Heinemann African Writers Series; W.P.B. Botha: The Reluctant
Playwright; Farida Karodia: A Shattering of Silence; Réshard Gool:
Cape Town Coolie; Agnes Sam: Jesus is Indian and Other Stories;
Bessie Head: Tales of Tenderness and Power; Dambudzo
Marechera: The House of Hunger. Short Stories
Alternation 2,1 (1995) 154-157.
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ARTICLES
Alternation 2,2 (1995) 1-4.
Douglas Killam The Interdisciplinarity of Pragmatics and Politeness
Theory with Reference to Chinua Achebe’s No Longer at Ease
Alternation 2,2 (1995) 5-14.
Sabry Hafez Sexual Politics and Narrative Strategies in Modern
Arabic Literature
Alternation 2,2 (1995) 15-39.
Belinda Jeursen !Khwa and Menstruation in Narratives of the / Xam
Bushmen
Alternation 2,2 (1995) 40-54.
Noleen Turner Censure and Social Comment in the Izihasho of Urban
Zulu Women
Alternation 2,2 (1995) 55-73.
Alan Thorold The Persistence of Tribe: The Case of Southern Malawi
Alternation 2,2 (1995) 74-89.
Jacqueline Jaffe The Gentleman’s War: The Ideology of Imperialism
in Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Great Boer War
Alternation 2,2 (1995) 90-105.
Godfrey Meintjes Re-viewing the Past: Notes on the Rereading of
Canonized Literary Texts
Alternation 2,2 (1995) 106-114.
R.. Bailey African Evidence for Three Proto-World Lexical Roots

Alternation 2,2 (1995) 115-138.
Louis Molamu Wietie: The Emergence and Development of Tsotsitaal
in South Africa
Alternation 2,2 (1995) 139-158.
Jeanne Maartens Language Maintenance in South Africa: Hoarding
Dreams, Hiding the Springs of Identity?
Alternation 2,2 (1995) 159-169.
Betty Govinden Learning Myself Anew
Alternation 2,2 (1995) 170-183.
REVIEW ARTICLES
David Hemson The Antinomies of Black Rage. A Review of: I Write
What I Like by Steve Biko
Alternation 2,2 (1995) 184-206.
BOOK REVIEWS
Helize van Vuuren The Tin Shack Bushmen of Kagga Kamma; Hylton
White: In the Tradition of the Forefathers. Bushmen Traditionality
at Kagga Kamma. The Politics and History of a Performance
Identity
Alternation 2,2 (1995) 207-211.
Jean-Philippe Wade Fiction, History and Nation: Analisa Oboe:
Fiction, History and Nation in South Africa
Alternation 2,2 (1995) 211-213.
Steven Leech Popularising History; Ian Knight: The Sun Turned
Black: Isandlwana and Rorke’s Drift
Alternation 2,2 (1995) 214-216.
David Hemson A Passing Miracle?; Alan Thorold: Miracle in Natal:
Revolution by Ballot-box
Alternation 2,2 (1995) 217-219.
Betty Govinden Constructing New Objects of Reading; Joan
Metelerkamp: Stone no More
Alternation 2,2 (1995) 220-222.
Johannes A. Smit Academic Writing; C.B. Peter: A Guide to Academic

Writing
Alternation 2,2 (1995) 222-223.
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ARTICLES
Alternation 3,1 (1996) 1-4.
Bernth Lindfors African Literature Teaching in South African
University English Departments
Alternation 3,1 (1996) 5-14.
Judith Lütge Coullie and Trish Gibbon Saints and Sinners in the
Canonisation of African Literature: A Reply to Bernth Lindfors
Alternation 3,1 (1996) 15-21.
Bernth Lindfors Interrogating the Interrogators: A Reply to Coullie
and Gibbon
Alternation 3,1 (1996) 22-29.
Sikhumbuzo Mngadi The Antinomies and Possibilities of ‘Radical’
Historical Consciousness: The Case of Three South African
Playtexts in English
Alternation 3,1 (1996) 30-55.
H.J. Vermeulen Apartheid in Crisis: Lacan and a Contemporary
Afrikaans Play
Alternation 3,1 (1996) 56-81.
Miki Flockemann Medeas: From Corinth to Cape Town
Alternation 3,1 (1996) 82-93.
Richard Bartlett Beneficial Parasite to Heroic Executioner: South
Africa in the Literature of Mozambique
Alternation 3,1 (1996) 94-108.
Maboga P. More African Philosophy Revisited
Alternation 3,1 (1996) 109-129.

REVIEW ARTICLE
Johannes A. Smit Trends and Critical Dialogue in African Philosophy
of the 1980s: Tsenay Serequeberan: African Philosophy: The
Essential Readings
Alternation 3,1 (1996) 130-160.
BOOK REVIEWS
G.V. Mona The Voice of the People; J Opland and P.T. Mtuze: Izwi
Labantu (The Voice of the People)
Alternation 3,1 (1996) 161-263.
S. Leech You Can’t Escape the Past; John Laband: Rope of Sand: The
Rise and Fall of the Zulu Kingdom in the Nineteenth Century
Alternation 3,1 (1995) 163-168.
H.J. Vermeulen The Construction of Afrikaner Nationalist Identity:
Johan van Wyk: Constructs of Identity and Difference in South
African Literature
Alternation 3,1 (1996) 168-171.
David Hemson Identities within the Rainbow: Ashwin Desai: Arise ye
Coolies: Apartheid and the Indian 1960-1995
Alternation 3,1 (1996) 172-177.
Fatima Mendonca Short Stories from Mozambique; Richard Bartlett:
Short Stories from Mozambique
Alternation 3,1 (1996) 177-181.
Richard Bartlett Frontline Nationalism: Mozambique and South
Africa; David Birmingham: Frontline Nationalism in Angola and
Mozambique
Alternation 3,1 (1996) 181-183.
David Spurrett The Hermeneutics of African Philosophy; Tsenay
Serequeberan: The Hermeneutics of African Philosophy: Horizon
and Discourse
Alternation 3,1 (1996) 184-189.
Jaco Alant Words that Circle Words; Jeff Opland: Words that Circle
Words. A Choice of South African Oral Poetry
Alternation 3,1 (1996) 189-197.
Damian Garside The Grotesque in Literature? Michael J. Meyer:

Literature and the Grotesque
Alternation 3,1 (1996) 197-200.
David Johnson Rethinking South African Literary History: Johannes
A. Smit, Johan van Wyk and Jean-Philippe Wade: Rethinking
South African Literary History
Alternation 3,1 (1996) 200-202.
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ARTICLES
Alternation 3,2 (1996) 1-4.
Carole Boyce Davies African Diaspora Literature and the Politics of
Transformation
Alternation 3,2 (1996) 5-27.
Keshia N. Abraham ‘This is no Time to Gaze’: Black Feminist
Discourse and the Politics of (re) Presentation
Alternation 3,2 (1996) 28-48.
P.T. Mtuze Looking at Women: Feminist Perspectives and Concerns
in Three Xhosa Poems
Alternation 3,2 (1996) 49-66.
Pieter Conradie Redefining Identity: A Survey of Afrikaans Women
Writers
Alternation 3,2 (1996) 67-75.
Amanda Lourens The Revisionary Struggle: A Feminist Perspective
on the Canon of Afrikaans Poetry
Alternation 3,2 (1996) 76-82.
Shane Moran Prefacing Spivak
Alternation 3,2 (1996) 83-101.

David Alvarez Train-congregants and Train-friends: Representations

of Railway Culture and Everyday Forms of Resistance in Two
South African Texts
Alternation 3,2 (1996) 102-129.
Stephan Meyer Fact(or) Fiction in Dominee Du Toit’s Inscription of
the White Queen into the Origin of African Civilisation – Notes on
an Extract from Di Koningin fan Skeba
Alternation 3,2 (1996) 130-147.
Rita Gilfillan Dwaalstories – the Stories of a Roaming Bushman:
Committed to Paper by a Wandering Boer
Alternation 3,2 (1996) 148-156.
Johan van Wyk Poor White Satyrs and Nationalist Blueprints
Alternation 3,2 (1996) 157-172.
Claudia Mitchell and Ann Smith More than Just a Love Story:
Investigating the Literary and Social Significance of the Young
Adult Novel in South Africa
Alternation 3,2 (1996) 173-183
Elizabeth de Kadt Language and Apartheid: The Power of Minorities
Alternation 3,2 (1996) 184-194.
REVIEW ARTICLES
Johannes A. Smit Black Women, Writing and Identity; Carole Boyce
Davies: Black Women, Writing and Identity. Migrations of the
Subject
Alternation 3,2 (1996) 195-207.
Shane Moran Caution: Disciplinary Intersection: Leon de Kock:
Civilising Barbarians: Missionary Narrative and African Textual
Response in Nineteenth-century South Africa
Alternation 3,2 (1996) 208-217.
BOOK REVIEWS
Meredith M. Gadsby The Black Diaspora; Ronald Segal: The Black
Diaspora
Alternation 3,2 (1996) 218-222.
Meredith M. Gadsby Inventing Cultural Identities in African, African-

american, and Caribbean Drama; Tejumola Olaniyan: Scars of
Conquest, Masks of Resistance: The Invention of Cultural
Identities in African, Africa-American, and Caribbean Drama
Alternation 3,2 (1996) 223-230.
Ampie Coetzee Southern African Literatures; Michael Chapman:
Southern African Literatures
Alternation 3,2 (1996) 231-237.
Ruth Bodenstein Multilingual Education in South Africa; Kathleen
Heugh, Amanda Siegrühn and Peter Plüddemann (eds):
Multilingual Education in South Africa
Alternation 3,2 (1996) 238-241.
Philip John Breaking Barriers - and Methodological Rules; C.N. van
der Merwe: Breaking Barriers. Stereotypes and the Changing
Values in Afrikaans Writing 1875-1990
Alternation 3,2 (1996) 242-246.
Damian Garside Introducing Literature Criticism and Theory;
Andrew Bennett and Nicholas Royle: An Introduction to Literature
Criticism and Theory: Key Critical Concepts
Alternation 3,2 (1996) 247-250.
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

A Letter by Albert S. Gérard
Alternation 3,2 (1996) 251-253.
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ARTICLES
Alternation 4,1 (1997) 1-4.

Mzo Sirayi Indigenous African Theatre: The Cultural Renaissance of

the Disabled Comrade in South Africa
Alternation 4,1 (1997) 5-26.
Catherine Duggan Things of Darkness: Character Construction in the
Earlier Plays of Zakes Mda
Alternation 4,1 (1997) 27-44.
Elsie Leonora Cloete Writing around the Bushmen: The !Kung,
Anthropology and Feminism
Alternation 4,1 (1997) 45-59.
Pieter Conradie Remembering Eva: The Frontiers Within
Alternation 4,1 (1997) 60-72.
Julie Pridmore The Wives of Henry Fynn: Unwritten but Potentially
Transfiguring Texts – The Untold Biographies of Vundhlazi of the
Zelemu and Christina Brown
Alternation 4,1 (1997) 73-83.
Apollon Davidson and Irina Filatova South African Society: Soviet
Perspectives – 1917 to the mid 1950s
Alternation 4,1 (1997) 84-92.
Anand Singh Cultural Intrepreneurship and the Culturalisation of
Politics amongst Indians in South Africa
Alternation 4,1 (1997) 93-115.
Kelwyn Sole South Africa Passes the Posts
Alternation 4,1 (1997) 116-151.
Shane Moran Postal Networks
Alternation 4,1 (1997) 152-169.
Nils Erik Enkvist Thoughts about Discourse Comprehension
Alternation 4,1 (1997) 170-187.
Nils Erik Enkvist Why We Need Contrastive Rhetoric
Alternation 4,1 (1997) 188-206.
REVIEW ARTICLES
Shane Moran Derrida and the Political; Richard Beardsworth: Derrida
and the Political
Alternation 4,1 (1997) 207-219.

Johannes A. Smit Homo Hermeneuticus: Historical Narrative in the

Semiosphere; Rocco Capozzi: Reading Eco: An Anthology
Alternation 4,1 (1997) 220-246.
INTERVIEWS
Venu Naidoo An Interview with Zakes Mda
Alternation 4,1 (1997) 247-261.
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ARTICLES
Alternation 4,2 (1997) 1-4.
M. van Wyk Smith The Ethiopia Metaphor: A Dialectic Myth of Africa
Alternation 4,2 (1997) 5-18.
Walter Köppe Wilhelm Heinrich Immanuel Bleek (1827-1875): His
Contribution to the Study of Southern African Cultures
Alternation 4,2 (1997) 19-25.
Henriette Roos ‘Moon, Man, Women, Bushmen: Reconciling the
Irreconcilable?’
Alternation 4,2 (1997) 26-35.
D. Lloyd Noble Savage and Ignoble Savage: Changing Perceptions of
the Early British Period
Alternation 4,2 (1997) 36-45.
J. Pridmore Hunter, Trader and Explorer? The Unvarnished
Reminiscences of H.F. Fynn
Alternation 4,2 (1997) 46-56.
Nick Meihuizen Pringle: The Aesthetics of Empire
Alternation 4,2 (1997) 57-67.
Annie Gagiano A.C. Jordan’s Tales from Southern Africa
Alternation 4,2 (1997) 68-80.

Apollon Davidson and Irina Filatova The South African War and the
Russian Public
Alternation 4,2 (1997) 81-102.
Myrtle Hooper Nation, Narration and Cultural Translation: Heart of
Darkness and Mhudi
Alternation 4,2 (1997) 103-113.
Carli Coetzee The Afrikaans Farm Novel and Idealised Sons: C.M.
van den Heever’s Farm Novels as Narratives of the Nation
Alternation 4,2 (1997) 114-122.
R.J. Balfour Gardening in ‘Other Countries’: Schoeman, Coetzee,
Conrad
Alternation 4,2 (1997) 123-135.
Jo-Marie Claassen A Conference that Could Have Changed our
World: Fort Hare 1930
Alternation 4,2 (1997) 136-161.
Varijakshi Prabhakaran Social Stratification in South African Telugu
(Ste) – A Sociolinguistic Case Study
Alternation 4,2 (1997) 162-185.
Louise M. Bourgault Occult Discourses in the Liberian Press under
Sam Doe: 1988-1989
Alternation 4,2 (1997) 186-209.
David Attwell Teaching Colonial Discourse in South Africa/ South
African Literature as Colonial Discourse
Alternation 4,2 (1997) 210-220.
Lindy Stiebel The Return of the Lost City: The Hybrid Legacy of
Rider Haggard’s African Romances
Alternation 4,2 (1997) 221-237.
REVIEW ARTICLES
Shirley Brooks An Act of Bridging? Kate Darian-Smith, Liz Gunner
and Sarah Nuttall: Text, Theory, Space: Land, Literature and
History in South Africa and Australia
Alternation 4,2 (1997) 238-246.

BOOK REVIEWS
Keith Breckenridge On the Mfecane Aftermath; Carolyn Hamilton:
The Mfecane Aftermath: Reconstructive Debates in Southern
African History
Alternation 4,2 (1997) 247-249.
Johan van Wyk De Weg Naar Monomotapa: Post-colonial Studies and
Dutch Literature in South Africa; Siegfried Huigen: De Weg Naar
Monomotapa
Alternation 4,2 (1997) 250-253.
Stewart Crehan Colonization, Violence and Narration; Rosemary Jane
Jolly: Colonization, Violence and Narration in White South African
Writing: André Brink, Breyten Breytenbach and J.M. Coetzee
Alternation 4,2 (1997) 253-255.
Johannes A. Smit Clearing Spaces: Multilingualism in a Multicultural
Context; Guus Extra and Jeanne Maartens (eds): Multilingualism in
a Multicultural Context: Case Studies on South Africa and Western
Europe
Alternation 4,2 (1997) 256-263.
Johannes A. Smit Alternation Issue Index
Alternation 4,2 (1997) 264-271.
Johannes A. Smit Alternation Author Index
Alternation 4,2 (1997) 272-277.
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ARTICLES
Shane Moran Introduction
Alternation 5,1 (1998) 1-2.
James Ogude Ngugi’s The Devil on the Cross, The Body and Power
Alternation 5,1 (1998) 3-12.
Glen Hooper Ngugi’s Matigari and the Politics of Literature
Alternation 5,1 (1998) 13-31.

Gregory H. Kamwendo The Use of Vernacular Languages in the

Malawian Literary Industry
Alternation 5,1 (1998) 32-38.
David Kazanjian Racial Governmentality: Thomas Jefferson and
African Colonization in the United States before 1816
Alternation 5,1 (1998) 39-84.
David Johnson De Mist, Race and Nation
Alternation 5,1 (1998) 85-97.
Martin Legassick and Gary Minkley Current Trends in the Production
of South African History
Alternation 5,1 (1998) 98-129.
Jabulani Mkhize Alex la Guma’s Politics and Aesthetics
Alternation 5,1 (1998) 130-168.
Corinne Sandwith A Social Function for Literature? Two Women
Critics and South African English Literary Studies, 1939 - 1948
Alternation 5,1 (1998) 169-190.
Priya Narismulu ‘Here be Dragons’: Challenging ‘Liberal’
Constructions of Protest Poetry
Alternation 5,1 (1998) 191-214.
Shane Moran Academic Exchanges
Alternation 5,1 (1998) 215-239.
BOOK REVIEW ARTICLES

David Hemson The Worm in the Bud: The Divided African State;
Mahmood Mamdani: Citizen and Subject: Contemporary Africa
and the Legacy of Late Colonialism
Alternation 5,1 (1998) 240-255.
Kelwyn Sole Writing South Africa; Derek Attridge and Rosemary
Jolly (eds): Writing South Africa: Literature, Apartheid and
Democracy, 1970 - 1995
Alternation 5,1 (1998) 256-267.

BOOK REVIEWS
Damian Garside Playing the Postmodern Game: Michael Cawood
Green: Sinking: A Verse Novella
Alternation 5,1 (1998) 267-271.
Thengani Ngwenya Deafening Silence; John Miles: Deafening
Silence
Alternation 5,1 (1998) 271-273.
Emmanuel Mqgwashu This Day and Age; Mike Nicol: This Day and
Age
Alternation 5,1 (1998) 273-275.
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Alternation 5,2 (1998)

ARTICLES
Johannes A. Smit The Marginal
Alternation 5,2 (1998) 1-9.
Hein Viljoen Marginalia on Marginality
Alternation 5,2 (1998) 10-22.
Erhard Reckwitz Writing from the Margins, or the Decentering of
English Literature
Alternation 5,2 (1998) 23-35.
Ampie Coetzee Duytsman altyd kallom: Icke Hottentots doot Makom
Alternation 5,2 (1998) 36-42.
Marilet Sienaert A Semiotic Response to Space in South Africa:
Indigenous Rock Art and Colonial Travelogues as Marginal
‘Writing on the Earth’?
Alternation 5,2 (1998) 43-50.
Helize van Vuuren ‘/ / Kabbo’s Intended Return Home’ (1873) and
The Conversion: Death Cell Conversations of ‘Rooizak’ and The
Missionaries – Lydenburg 1875: Marginalised Early South African
Testimonies
Alternation 5,2 (1998) 51-57.
Lannie Birch James Barry’s Corporeal Archive: An Hermafrodite at

the Cape
Alternation 5,2 (1998) 58-71.
N.N. Canonici and T.T. Cele Cetshwayo kaMpande in Zulu Literature
Alternation 5,2 (1998) 72-90.
Lindy Stiebel Imagining Empire’s Margins: Land in Rider Haggard’s
African Romances
Alternation 5,2 (1998) 91-103.
Graham Stewart ‘She felt the future in her bones’ – Gibbon’s Souls in
Bondage
Alternation 5,2 (1998) 104-113.
Siegfried Huigen Dutch South African Literature
Alternation 5,2 (1998) 114-126.
Thengani H. Ngewenya B.W. Vilakazi: The Poet as Inspired Prophet
Alternation 5,2 (1998) 127-146.
Jabulani Mkhize ‘Road to Consciousness’: And A Threefold Cord and
The Stone Country
Alternation 5,2 (1998) 147-165.
Dirk Klopper Arthur Nortje and the Unhomely
Alternation 5,2 (1998) 166-176.
Michael Gardiner The Real Substance of Nightmare: The Struggle of
Poetry with History
Alternation 5,2 (1998) 177-191.
Philip John Marginality, Afrikaans Literature and ‘The Undefined
Work of Freedom’
Alternation 5,2 (1998) 192-206.
J.L. Coetser Afrikaans Theatre: A Centre Moving?
Alternation 5,2 (1998) 207-227.
Judith Lütge Coullie Rejecting the Mother Tongue: Afrikaner on the
Margins
Alternation 5,2 (1998) 228-237.
Wonderboy Peters Re-placing Dis-placed/ Missing Persons in
Vladislavic’s Short Stories
Alternation 5,2 (1998) 238-250.

James Ogude Writing Resistance on the Margins of Power:

Rampolokeng’s Poetry and the Restoration of Community in South
Africa
Alternation 5,2 (1998) 251-262.
Priya Narismulu Labour and South African Literature in the 1980s
Alternation 5,2 (1998) 263-300.
Juanita van Rensburg Van Gogh was Really a Punk: The First
Afrikaans Graphic Novel!
Alternation 5,2 (1998) 301-309.
Johan van Wyk Hedonism in the Margins: Dolf van Coller’s Die
Bieliebalies
Alternation 5,2 (1998) 310-321.
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ARTICLES
Pitika Ntuli and Johannes A. Smit Speaking Truth to Power: A
Challenge to South African Intellectuals
Alternation 6,1 (1999) 1-20.
H. Debipersad, B. Rambilaas and R. Sookrajh A Joussian Oral
Engagement with the Yajna
Alternation 6,1 (1999) 21-36.
S.J. Malungana The Relevance of Xitsonga Oral Tradition
Alternation 6,1 (1999) 37-54.
G.V. Mona National Identity and Xhosa Poetry (1880 - 1900)
Alternation 6,1 (1999) 55-73.
Sandile C. Ndaba Visionary Commitment in Mazisi Kunene’s
Ancestors and the Sacred Mountain
Alternation 6,1 (1999) 74-81.
Zola Sonkosi Stories and Rhymes in Xhosa: A Selective Overview
Alternation 6,1 (1999) 82-105.

M.C. Hoza The African Woman in Jolobe and Mema’s Poems: A

Critical Comparison
Alternation 6,1 (1999) 106-116.
Hershini Bhana ‘The Condition of the Native’: Autodestruction
in Dangaremba’s Nervous Conditions
Alternation 6,1 (1999) 117-137.
Dumisane Ngcobo Nihilism in Black South Africa: The New
South Africa and the Destruction of the Black Domestic
Periphery
Alternation 6,1 (1999) 138-154.
Annie Gagiano ‘By What Authority?’ Presentations of the
Khoisan in South African English Poetry
Alternation 6,1 (1999) 155-173.
W.J. Ndaba The Challenge of African Philosophy - A Reply to
Mabogo More
Alternation 6,1 (1999) 174-192.
M.E.S. van den Berg On a Communitarian Ethos, Equality and Human
Rights in Africa
Alternation 6,1 (1999) 193-212.
M.A. Masoga Sacrificial Cleansing: Truth and Reconciliation
Alternation 6,1 (1999) 213-224.
REVIEW ARTICLES
Rembrandt Klopper Outcomes-Based Education: Why the Alarm
Bells are Ringing, and How to Turn them Off; Jonathan Jansen and
Pam Christie (eds): Changing Curriculum: Studies on Outcomes-
based Education in South Africa and Helen van der Hors and Ria
McDonald: OBE: Outcomes-based Education, A Teacher’s Manual
Alternation 6,1 (1999) 225-236.
Johannes A. Smit Un\thinking White Mythologies; Immanuel
Wallerstein: Unthinking Social Science: The Limits of Nineteenth-
century Paradigms
Alternation 6,1 (1999) 237-254.

BOOK REVIEWS
Daryl Balia Religion and Politics in Africa; Jeff Haynes: Religion and
Politics in Africa
Alternation 6,1 (1999) 255-256.
Sanusha Naidu Conflict in Africa: Oliver Furley (ed): Conflict in
Africa
Alternation 6,1 (1999) 256-259.
Richard Pithouse Fanon: A Critical Reader: Lewis R. Gordon, T.
Denean Sharpley-Whiting and Renee T. White (eds): Fanon: A
Critical Reader
Alternation 6,1 (1999) 260-263.
Andrew Johnson Three Recent Poetry Collections; Alan Paton: Songs
of Africa: Collected Poems; Alan James: Ferry to Robben Island;
Geoffrey Hutchings: Tongue Tide
Alternation 6,1 (1999) 263-271.
INTERVIEWS
Rajendra Chetty A Community Bard: Interview with Ahmed
Essop
Alternation 6,1 (1999) 272-278.
ORAL POETRY
Alfred T. Qabula Laduma/ It’s Thundering
Alternation 6,1 (1999) 279-283.
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ARTICLES
Alternation 6,2 (1999) 1-4.
Adebayo Williams Towards the Biologics of Cultural Production: The
Literary Politics of Thomas Mofolo
Alternation 6,2 (1999) 5-23.
Emeka Nwabueze Desperation and Anger: The Effect of Environment

in Black South African and African-American Literature
Alternation 6,2 (1999) 24-34.
I. Diale Biblical Mythologies: Apartheid and Anti-Apartheid Readings
Alternation 6,2 (1999) 35-49.
Lekan Oyegoke Postcoloniality and African Writing: A Millennial
Postscript
Alternation 6,2 (1999) 50-57.
Kwame Ayivor The Prodigal Hero Returns to his Aboriginal Home: A
Reading of Kofi Awoonor’s This Earth, My Brother
Alternation 6,2 (1999) 58-79.
Marilet Sienaert Africa and Identity in the Art and Writing of Breyten
Breytenbach
Alternation 6,2 (1999) 80-89.
Erhard Reckwitz Breyten Breytenbach’s Memory of Snow and of Dust
– A Postmodern Story of Identities
Alternation 6,2 (1999) 90-102.
Cleopas Thosago Postcolonial Discourse and African Language
Literary Studies in South Africa
Alternation 6,2 (1999) 103-115.
Andrew Foley Christianity and Liberalism in Cry, the Beloved
Country
Alternation 6,2 (1999) 116-133.
Gisela Feurle Shaka and the Changing of Perspectives – Teaching
South African Literature and History at a German College
Alternation 6,2 (1999) 134-149.
Erhard Reckwitz The Rediscovery of the Ordinary – Remarks about a
Literary Debate in South Africa
Alternation 6,2 (1999) 150-163.
S. Pather Equal Treatment: Addressing Sexual and Gender
Discrimination
Alternation 6,2 (1999) 164-179.
Gina Buijs Migration and the Disappearance of Caste among Indian
South Africans
Alternation 6,2 (1999) 180-192.
Varijakshi Prabhakaran South Africa Telugu Surnames – A

Linguistic Analysis
Alternation 6,2 (1999) 193-209.
Rory Ryan The Literary Phenomenon and the Maintenance of Human
Meaning
Alternation 6,2 (1999) 210-235.
Lawrie Barnes Perspectives on Bilingualism in the South African
Context
Alternation 6,2 (1999) 236-247.
Rembrandt Klopper How Science Reveals the Universe and How
Humans Perceive the Universe to Be
Alternation 6,2 (1999) 248-272.
Mark Turner and Gilles Fauconnier A Mechanism of Creativity
Alternation 6,2 (1999) 273-292.
Rembrandt Klopper In the Mind’s Eye: The Role of Conceptual
Blending in having Others See What you Mean
Alternation 6,2 (1999) 293-300.
Rembrandt Klopper Untangling the Web: Inferential Links in a
Narrative of Deceit, Repentance and Forgiveness
Alternation 6,2 (1999) 301-320.
Elsa Klopper The Use of Conceptual Metaphor in Karel Schoeman’s
Another Country
Alternation 6,2 (1999) 321-331.
REVIEW ARTICLES
Mabogo P. More What Difference does Difference Make? Oyekan
Owomoyela: The African Difference: Discourse on Africanity and
the Relativity of Cultures
Alternation 6,2 (1999) 332-349.
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ARTICLES
Thengani H. Ngwenya The Historical Dimension of South African
Autobiography
Alternation 7,1 (2000) 1-4.
Gina Wisker ‘No World as Yet for What She has Done’: Re-memory
and Revisioning in Bessie Head and South African Women’s
Autobiographical Writings
Alternation 7,1 (2000) 5-28.
Nancy Topping Bazin Nadine Gordimer’s Fictional Selves: Can a
White Woman Be ‘At Home’ in Black South Africa
Alternation 7,1 (2000) 29-40.
J.U. Jacobs 2000. Cross-cultural Translation in South African
Autobiographical Writing: The Case of Sindiwe Magona
Alternation 7,1 (2000) 41-61.
Graeme Rosenberg Auto/ Biographical Narratives and the Lives of
Jordan Ngubane
Alternation 7,1 (2000) 62-96.
Stephan Meyer Intersubjectivity and Autobiography: Feminist Critical
Theory and Johnny Masilela’s Deliver us from Evil – Scenes from
a Rural Transvaal Upbringing
Alternation 7,1 (2000) 97-124.
Vanessa A. Farr ‘Making this book is a strange thing to me’: Singing
Away the Hunger and the Politics of Publishing in Collaborative
Autobiography
Alternation 7,1 (2000) 125-144.
Thengani H. Ngwenya Ideology and Self-Representation in The
Calling of Katie Makanya
Alternation 7,1 (2000) 145-162.
Thomas Thale Community and Narration in Emma Mashinini’s
Strikes have Followed me all my Life.
Alternation 7,1 (2000) 163-177.

Betty Govinden Space and Identity in Jayapraga Reddy’s Unpublished

Autobiography, The Unbending Reed and her On the Fringe of
Dreamtime and Other Stories
Alternation 7,1 (2000) 178-200
REVIEW ARTICLES
Damian Garside Literary Theory – The Long and the Very Short of It;
Jonathan Culler: Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction
Alternation 7,1 (2000) 201-209.
Priya Narismulu What about the Audience? Silences in Voicing the
Text; Duncan Brown: Voicing the Text.
Alternation 7,1 (2000) 210-232.
BOOK REVIEWS
Lorelle Royeppen Mother to Mother’s Moral Ambivalence; Sindiwe
Magona: Mother to Mother
Alternation 7,1 (2000) 233-235.
INTERVIEWS
Judith Lütge Coullie Speaking about Writing about Living a Life:
Interview with Stephen Gray on his Autobiography, Accident of
Birth
Alternation 7,1 (2000) 236-253.
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ARTICLES
Irina Filatova Development and the Humanities
Alternation 7,2 (2000)1-4.

ANTHROPOLOGY
Pearl Sithole Development, Clubs and Committees: Local Versions of
Development Discourse in the Msinga District of Northern
KwaZulu-Natal
Alternation 7,2 (2000) 5-22.
Anand Singh Public Transport in Durban. Indian Privilege versus
African Empowerment – Process and Perceptions
Alternation 7,2 (2000) 23-47
GEOGRAPHY
Urmilla Bob Gender, the Role of the Chieftaincy and Rural Women’s
Access to Land under the Land Reform Programme in Kwazulu-
Natal
Alternation 7,2 (2000) 48-66.
HISTORY
Goolam Vahed Indian Muslims in South Africa: Continuity, Change
and Disjuncture, 1860-2000
Alternation 7,2 (2000) 67-98.
Mandy Goedhals Colonialism, Culture, Christianity and the Struggle
for Selfhood: Manche Masemola of Sekhukhuneland c.1913 -
1928
Alternation 7,2 (2000) 99-112.
Stephen Leech Rewriting the Zulu Past beyond the Washing of the
Spears
Alternation 7,2 (2000) 113-134.
Kalpana Hirallal The Economic Role of the Indian Commercial Class
in Colonial Natal
Alternation 7,2 (2000) 135-147.
Poobalan Pillay The Geneva Conventions and the South African War
of Liberation
Alternation 7,2 (2000) 148-155.

SOCIOLOGY
Anusha Pillay Prisoners are Women Too: A Case Study of Women
Prisoners in Westville Prison
Alternation 7,2 (2000) 156-169.
Kathy Nadessen A Profile of Female Genital Mutilation and Human
Rights: Towards Outlawing the Practice
Alternation 7,2 (2000) 170-192.
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ARTICLES
Judith Lütge Coullie Introduction: Symptoms, Theories and
Scholarship
Alternation 8,1 (2001) 1-5.
Pamela Ryan Plain Women and Ladies in a Strange Country
Alternation 8,1 (2001) 6-27.
Elmar Lehmann Douglas Blackburn and the Anglo-Boer War
Alternation 8,1 (2001) 28-40.
David Burchell ‘Let Down Your Bucket Where You Are’. A Critique
of the Curriculum at the University College of Fort Hare in its
Pioneer Years
Alternation 8,1 (2001) 41-61.
Vasu Reddy Witnessing the Knowable Past: Knowledge, Truth and
Humanity in Three Testimonies
Alternation 8,1 (2001) 62-80.
Johan Coetser Afrikaans Theatre: Reflections of Identity
Alternation 8,1 (2001) 81-104.
Jean-Philippe Wade ‘Sparks of Carnival fire’: Alan Paton’s ‘The
Quarry’ (1967) and the Bakhtinian Carnivalesque.
Alternation 8,1 (2001) 105-115.
Miki Flockemann Fictions of Home and (Un)belonging: Diasporan
Frameworks in Michelle Cliff's Abeng and Zoë Wicomb's ‘Journey
to the Gifberge’
Alternation 8,1 (2001) 116-133.
Themba Moyo Malawi's Marginalisation of Indigenous Languages in

Literary Publications
Alternation8,1 (2001) 134 -149.
S. Qono South Africa within Global and Post-Apartheid Constraints
Alternation 8,1 (2001) 150 - 169.
Jabulani Mkhize Literary Prospects in ‘Post-Apartheid’ South Africa
Alternation 8,1 (2001) 170 - 187.
Gerrie Snyman ‘Who am I?’ Thoughts on Fabricating the Body in
Postcolonial/ Post-apartheid South Africa
Alternation 8,1 (2001) 188-218.
Wilhelm Verwoerd On our Moral Responsibility for Past Violations
Alternation 8,1 (2001) 219-242.
INTERVIEWS
Rajendra Chetty At the Edge: An Interview with Ronnie Govender
Alternation 8,1 (2001) 243-253.
DEBATES
Damian Clarke ‘My dear lads ...’: G.A. Henty, Author of Empire, and
the New South Africa
Alternation 8,1 (2001) 254-258.
Myrtle Hooper The Ethics of Reading: Conrad’s The Secret Agent.
Alternation 8,1 (2001) 259-269.
BOOK REVIEWS
David Bennett Breakout: Cyberporn, Privacy and Reality-effects;
Frederick S. Lane III: Obscene Profits: The Entrepreneurs of
Pornography in the Cyber Space Age
Alternation 8,1 (2001) 270-277.
Elizabeth Thompson African Unity; Manelisi Genge, Francis
Kornegay and Stephen Rule: Reawakening Commitment,
Obligations and Responsibilities to Unity in Africa: Pan African
Union and a Pan African Parliament
Alternation 8,1 (2001) 277-279.

N.N. Mathonsi Common Ground; Vusumuzi Maurice Bhengu:

ITSHWELE LEMPANGELE
Alternation 8,1 (2001) 280-282.
Lazarus Chifumbe Mulenga Gender; Robert Morrell: Changing Men
in Southern Africa
Alternation 8,1 (2001) 282-285.
RECENT BOOK REVIEWS

Judith Lütge Coullie Recent Reviews of Life Writing Publications I.
Alternation 8,1 (2001) 286-304.
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ARTICLES
Shane Moran Introduction
Alternation 8,2 (2001) 1-3.
David Hemson Critique in Retreat? Intellectuals and Inequality in
South Africa
Alternation 8,2 (2001) 4-20.
Sikhumbuzo Mngadi and Tamlyn Monson Nationalism and Feminism:
Anne McClintock’s Reading of South Africa
Alternation 8,2 (2001) 21-37.
David Johnson Literatures of Nation and Migration: Charles
Mungoshi, Nadine Gordimer, and the Post-colonial.
Alternation 8,2 (2001) 38-55.
Richard Consterdine The UDW Fees Crisis of May/ June 2000: A
Linguistic Analysis
Alternation8,2 (2001) 56-69.
Johannes A. Smit The Language of the Other
Alternation 8,2 (2001) 70-105.
Emmanuel Mgqwashu Re-conceptualising English Language
Alternation 8,2 (2001) 106-118.

Shane Moran and Elizabeth Greyling W.H.I. Bleek and Black Athena
Alternation 8,2 (2001) 119-154.
Mduduzi Dlamini Translations from Baudelaire
Alternation 8,2 (2001) 155-167.
INTERVIEWS
Johan van Wyk Interview with Dennis Brutus
Alternation 8,2 (2001) 168-215.

Shane Moran To Criticise the Critic: Disgrace; J.M. Coetzee:
Disgrace
Alternation 8,2 (2001) 216-228.
BOOK REVIEWS
Venetia Dlomo Literature and Transformation; Zakes Mda: The Heart
of Redness
Alternation 8,2 (2001) 229-231.
Shane Moran Investing in South Africa; Anthony O’Brien: Against
Normalization. Writing Radical Democracy in South Africa
Alternation 8,2 (2001) 232-236.
Pravina Pillay Sound and Fury; Salman Rushdie: Fury
Alternation 8,2 (2001) 237-239.
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ARTICLES
Catherine Addison Introduction
Alternation 9,1 (2002) 1-6.
Annette L. Combrink Mediating Intercultural Communication: The
Cultural Filter and the Act of Translation/ Interpreting
Alternation 9,1 (2002) 7-25.

J.A. Loubser Many Shades of Orality and Literacy: Media Theory and
Cultural Difference
Alternation 9,1 (2002) 26-45.
Kennedy Chinyowa The Liminal Function of Orality in Development
Communication: A Zimbabwean Perspective.
Alternation 9,1 (2002) 46-56.
Gina Buijs Gender and Person in African Societies: The Role of
Hermeneutics
Alternation 9,1 (2002) 57-73.
Catherine Addison Island Encounters: Intercultural Communication in
the Western Literary Tradition
Al ternation 9,1 (2002) 74-86.
Harry Garuba Mapping the Land/ Body/ Subject: Colonial and
Postcolonial Geographies in African Narrative
Alternation 9,1 (2002) 87-116.
Gillian Gane Mistakes in the Contact Zone
Alternation 9,1 (2002) 117-130.
Andries Visagie White Masculinity and the African Other: Die
werfbobbejaan by Alexander Strachan
Alternation 9,1 (2002) 131-141.
Anand Singh The Politics of Belonging: Socialisation and Identity
among Children of Indian Origin in Secondary Schools in Durban
Alternation 9,1 (2002) 142-152.
Robert Balfour Critical Reflections on Language Curriculum Design
in South Africa
Alternation 9,1 (2002) 153-175.
Thandwa Mthembu and Prem Naidoo National Education’s Research
Benchmarks: Realistic Targets or Pie in the Sky?
Alternation 9,1 (2002) 176-203.
Francis Galloway Statistical Trends in South African Book Publishing
during the 1990s
Alternation 9,1 (2002) 204-225.

REVIEW ARTICLES
Judith Lütge Coullie The Incredible Whiteness of Being; Alexandra
Fuller: Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood;
Sarah Penny: The Whiteness of Bones; Antjie Krog: Country of my
Skull
Alternation 9,1 (2002) 226-237.
RECENT BOOK REVIEWS

Judith Lütge Coullie Recent Reviews of Life Writing Publications II
Alternation 9,1 (2002) 238-261.
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ARTICLES
Graham Stewart Introduction
Alternation 9,2 (2002) 1-11.
C.S. de Beer Inventive Intellectual Adventures in Cyberspace
Alternation 9,2 (2002) 12-34.
Rita Wilson The Space(s) of Hypertext Fiction
Alternation 9,2 (2002) 35-51.
Susan Spearey Bridging Distances, Breaking Boundaries: Teaching
South African Literature in Canada with the Aid of Web CT
(Course Tools) Technology
Alternation 9,2 (2002) 52-65.
Harriet Deacon Menssink on Trial: An Eighteenth-century Court Case
and a Multimedia Tutorial
Alternation 9,2 (2002) 66-84.
Anand Lutchmiah Naidoo William Gibson: From Prescience to
Pastiche
Alternation 9,2 (2002) 85-108.
Dale Peters Digital Libraries: Preserving Information Resources for
Contemporary South African Culture and Scholarship.
Alternation 9,2 (2002) 109-118.
Karen de Wet and Theo Bothma Implementing a Digital Library for

Afrikaans Poetry I: Theoretical Foundations
Alternation 9,2 (2002) 119-129.
Theo Bothma, Karen de Wet and Paul Bothma Implementing a Digital
Library for Afrikaans Poetry II: Technical Issues
Alternation 9,2 (2002) 130-145.
Beatriz Resende “Cyberspace, South” Internet and Cultural Studies in
Brazil
Alternation 9,2 (2002) 146-155.
Joan Conolly Memory, Media and Research: Mnemonic Oral-style,
Rhythmo-stylistics and the Computer
Alternation 9,2 (2002) 156-178.
Kalpana Hiralal The Myth of the ‘Asiatic Menace’ in Post War Natal
(1918-1924)
Alternation 9,2 (2002) 179-195.
Kwame Owusu-Ampomah Being an African in the Twenty-first
Century and the Prospects for Africa’s Progress
Alternation 9,2 (2002) 196-223.
Veena Lutchman Colonial Cousins in Poetry
Alternation 9,2 (2002) 224-235.
Ayub Sheik ‘I feel like hollerin but the town is too small’: A
Biographical Study of Wopko Jensma
Alternation 9,2 (2002) 236-276.
Rembrandt Klopper e-Communication and the Theory of the
Optimisation of Human Communication
Alternation 9,2 (2002) 277-299.
KEYNOTE ADDRESSES
Mogomme Masoga The Role of African Intellectuals in the
Reconstruction of the African Social Fabric (The Quest for Nation
Building)
Alternation 9,2 (2002) 300-315.
Shane Moran Identikit: The Politics of Critical Thought
Alternation 9,2 (2002) 316-319.

BOOK REVIEWS
J. Edward Chamberlin Oral Traditions; Marcel Jousse: The Parallel
Rhythmic Recitatives of the Rabbis of Israel: Genre of the Maxim
Alternation 9,2 (2002) 320-321.
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ARTICLES
Alternation 10,1 (2003) 1-9
Johannes A. Smit ‘Why is There Something and not Nothing?’
Alternation 10,1 (2003) 10-20.
Piet Kruger Reflections on the Language of Thought
Alternation 10,1 (2003) 21-46.
Roger Lass Genetic Metaphor in Historical Linguistics
Alternation 10,1 (2003) 47-62.
Gary B. Palmer Cultural Linguistics and Shona Noun Classifiers
Alternation 10,1 (2003) 63-86.
Ronald Miller To Be is an Answer; Not to Be is the Question: Action,
Understanding, and Human Mediation
Alternation 10,1 (2003) 87-104.
Andrew Dellis and David Spurrett Real Patterns and Distributed
Cognition
Alternation 10,1 (2003) 105-131.
Grant Blair and Stephen Cowley Language in Iterating Activity:
Microcognition Re-membered
Alternation 10,1 (2003) 132-162.
Gary Mersham and Gavin Baker A Communication Model for
Industrial Theatre as a Negotiated Dramaturgy
Alternation 10,1 (2003) 163-194.
Simon Beck Cognition, Persons, Identity
Alternation 10,1 (2003) 195-215.

Jacek Brzozowski Anthropocentric Chauvinism

Alternation 10,1 (2003) 216-236.
Marie Spruyt No Time Like the Present: A Cognitive Approach to
Time Differentiation in Discourse
Alternation 10,1 (2003) 237-249.
James B. Schreiber and Michael Verdi Dual Coding and Conjoint
Retention: Past, Present, and Future
Alternation 10,1 (2003) 250-270.
Michael Mark Pitman Consciousness Studies: Research Prospects in
the ‘Cradle of Human Consciousness’
Alternation 10,1 (2003) 271-291.
David Spurrett Why Think that Cognition is Distributed?
Alternation 10,1 (2003) 292-306.
BOOK REVIEW ARTICLE

Catherine Addison The Contemporary Verse Novel: An Explosion of
Poetic Narrative; Vikram Seth: The Golden Gate; Bernadine
Evaristo: Lara; Fred D’Aguiar: Bloodlines; Michael Cawood
Green: Sinking; Derek Walcott: Omeros; Bernadine Evaristo: The
Emperor’s Babe; George Elliott Clarke: Whylah Falls
Alternation 10,1 (2003) 307-326.
BOOK REVIEWS
Malini Ramsay-Brijball Language in South Africa: A Sociolinguistic
Perspective; Rajend Meshtrie: Language in South Africa
Alternation 10,1 (2003) 327-331.
REJOINDER
Fred van Staden Mthembu and Naidoo’s (2002) Position Paper on
Post Secondary Education Research Evaluation in South Africa: A
Rejoinder
Alternation 10,1 (2003) 332-336.

PUBLIC ADDRESS
David L. Szanton Changing Places: The Politics of International
Academic Exchanges
Alternation 10,1 (2003) 337-347.
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ARTICLES
Alternation 10,2 (2003) 1-10.
Manogarie Moodley and Rembrandt Klopper The Conceptual Basis of
Ethnic Stereotyping
Alternation 10,2 (2003) 11-24.
Thabisile Buthelezi The Invisible Females: Analysing Gender in the
OBE-oriented Language Books for the Intermediate Phase in South
African Schools
Alternation 10,2 (2003) 25-42.
Barbara Solarsh School Performance in Rural South Africa – The
Role of Verbal Reasoning
Alternation 10,2 (2003) 43-88.
Irwin T.J. Brown The Role of Cognitive Instrumental Processes,
Social Influence Processes and Perceived Behavioural Control in
the Acceptance of the Internet as a Learning Tool
Alternation 10,2 (2003) 89-121.
David Edwards, Jennifer Henwood and Swetha Kannan Cognitive
Therapy for Social Phobia:The Human Face of Cognitive Science
Alternation 10,2 (2003) 122-150.
Nicola Jones Privacy, Ethics and the Public Interest: Should the South
African Media have Reported on Durban Businessman Glyn
Taylor’s Infamous Death in 1999?
Alternation 10,2 (2003) 151-163.

Clive J. Basson and Kevin Whitehead Self and Consciousness:

Possible Implications for Mental Imagery Use in Sport Psychology
Alternation 10,2 (2003) 164-182.
David J.F. Maree, Nafisa Cassimjee, Rebone P.E. Cgabo,Yolande
Croucamp, Sarina de Beer, Linda I. Maritz, Charles A. Mtetwa,
Patricia M. Neville, Alida P. Prinsloo and Vannesa Scherman
Dimensions of Change Detection within the Phenomenon of
Change Blindness
Alternation 10,2 (2003) 183-201.
Matthew Jukes Do Parasitic Worm Infections Impair Cognitive
Development?
Alternation 10,2 (2003) 202-228.
Stephen J. Cowley Distributed Cognition at Three Months: Caregiver-
infant Dyads in kwaZulu-Natal
Alternation 10,2 (2003) 229-257.
G.M. Mersham and P.E. Louw South African Attitudes to Australia
and Australians
Alternation 10,2 (2003) 258-270.
Johannes A. Smit When ‘Trek’, ‘Gulf’ and ‘Guilt’ Goes
Alternation 10,2 (2003) 271-287.
Rembrandt Klopper Yesterday is Another Country
Alternation 10,2 (2003) 288-323.
INTERVIEWS
Litzi Lombardozzi Interview with Lewis Nkosi During his Visit To
South Africa
Alternation 10,2 (2003) 324-333.
KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Mogomme Masoga Establishing Dialogue: Thoughts on Music
Education in Africa
Alternation 10,2 (2003) 334-347.

BOOK REVIEWS
Gillian Bowden and Judith Lütge Coullie Review of Bettie Emslie’s
An Autobiography: One Beggar to Another
Alternation 10,2 (2003) 348-354.
RECENT BOOK REVIEWS

Judith Lütge Coullie Recent Reviews of Life Writing Publications III
Alternation 10,2 (2003) 355-383.
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ARTICLES
Jabulani Mkhize Introduction: The Politics of Interpretation/ Theory
Alternation11,1 (2004) 1-9.
Emmanuel M. Mgqwashu The Politics of Pedagogy in the
Humanities: How can We not Speak of Language Teaching?
Alternation 11,1 (2004) 10-24.
Sikhumbuzo Mngadi Reconsidering the Copula, ‘and’ in ‘Literature
and Politics’, and Some Thoughts on ‘Progressive Formalism’
Alternation 11,1 (2004) 25-43.
Pumla Dineo Gqola ‘… as if this burden disguised as honour did
not weigh heavily on her heart’: Black Women, Struggle
Iconography and Nation in South African Literature
Alternation 11,1 (2004) 44-70.
N.P. van Wyk Louw (Translated by Johan van Wyk) Direction in
Afrikaans Literature
Alternation 11,1 (2004) 71-78.
Mabogo P. More Biko: Africana Existentialist Philosopher
Alternation 11,1 (2004) 79-108.
Pravina Pillay Gramsci on Intellectuals and Culture: A Review
Alternation 11,1 (2004) 109-130.

Thengani Ngwenya Hegemony and Autobiographical Self-

Representation: The Case of Sindiwe Magona
Alternation 11,1 (2004) 131-150.
V.M. Sisi Maqagi ‘She’s There’: Strategies of Presencing in Down
Second Avenue and in ‘Mrs Plum’
Alternation 11,1 (2004) 151-164.
Minesh Dass Response and Responsibility in Phaswane Mpe’s
Welcome to Our Hillbrow
Alternation 11,1 (2004) 165-185.
Olivia Vermaak Language Play and Humanism in Dambudzo
Marechera’s The Black Insider
Alternation 11,1 (2004) 186-216.
Hervé Mitoumba Tindy The Political Dimension of Dambudzo
Marechera’s Black Sunlight
Alternation 11,1 (2004) 217-240.
N.N. Mathonsi Social Concerns in C.T. Msimang’s IZULU
ELADUMA ESANDLWANA
Alternation 11,1 (2004) 241-255.
Goolam Vahed The Quest for ‘Malay’ Identity in Apartheid South
Africa
Alternation 11,1 (2004) 256-282.
Shane Moran Archive Fever
Alternation 11,1 (2004) 283-298.

Jabulani Mkhize History from the Outside: Of La Guma’s
Dialogics, ‘Colouredism’ and Other Shenanigans; Nahem
Yousaf: Alex la Guma: Politics and Resistance
Alternation 11,1 (2004) 299-311.
Sikhumbuzo Mngadi Reading the Unpublished, or, ‘the university
in the eyes of its pupils’; Mandisi Silver: Poetry; Jacques
Derrida: The Principle of Reason: The University in the Eyes of its
Pupils; Dillon Govender: Untitled collection of Poems
Alternation 11,1 (2004) 312-341.

BOOK REVIEWS
Pravina Pillay The Lotus People: Aziz Hassim: The Lotus People
Alternation 11,1 (2004) 342-346.
Sibongile Mogale The Quiet Violence of Dreams; Sello K. Duiker:
The Quiet Violence of Dreams
Alternation 11,1 (2004) 347-349.
Vasanthe Padayachee A Duty of Memory; W.P.B. Botha: A Duty of
Memory
Alternation 11,1 (2004) 350-353.
RECENT BOOK REVIEWS

Judith Lütge Coullie Recently Reviewed South African Life Writing
Publications IV
Alternation 11,1 (2004) 354-396.
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ARTICLES
Malini Ramsay-Brijball and Priya Narismulu Language and Changing
Contexts: Sociolinguistic Perspectives
Alternation 11,2 (2004) 1-9.
Russel Kaschula South Africa’s National Language Policy Revisited:
The Challenge of Implementation
Alternation 11,2 (2004) 10-25.
Mbulungeni Madiba ‘Treading where angels fear most’: The South
African Government’s New Language Policy for Higher Education
and its Implications
Alternation 11,2 (2004) 26-43.
Lawrie Barnes Additive Bilingualism in the South African Language-
in-Education Policy: Is there Proof of the Pudding?
Alternation 11,2 (2004) 44-61.

Nobuhle Ndimande Language and Identity: The Case of African

Languages in S.A. Higher Education
Alternation 11,2 (2004) 62-84.
Rama Pillay A Sociolinguistic Investigation of the Status of isiZulu at
Former House of Delegates High Schools in Phoenix
Alternation 11,2 (2004) 85-100.
Stephanie Rudwick Ethnolinguistic Vitality in KwaZulu-Natal
Alternation 11,2 (2004) 101-117.
Johan Lubbe Linguistic Rights Litigation
Alternation 11,2 (2004) 118-143
Malini Ramsay-Brijball Exploring Identity through Code-switching: A
Poststructuralist Approach
Alternation 11,2 (2004) 144-164.
Ondene van Dulm The Role of Syntactic Theory in the Analysis of
Intrasentential Code-switching
Alternation 11,2 (2004) 165-185.
Vis Moodley and Nkonko Kamwangamalu Code-switching as a
Technique in Teaching Literature in a Secondary School ESL
Classroom
Alternation 11,2 (2004) 186-202.
Eda Üstünel Conversational Code-switching among Turkish Learners
and Teachers of English and its Effects on SLA
Alternation 11,2 (2004) 203-215.
Marianna Visser and Edith C. Venter Theory-based Features of Task-
based Course Design: isiXhosa for Specific Purposes in Local
Government
Alternation 11,2 (2004) 216-246.
Somikazi G. Mlonyeni and Jacobus Naude Enriching isiXhosa
Culture: The Transference of Social and Material Culture in the
isiXhosa Translation of The Prisoner of Zenda
Alternation 11,2 (2004) 247-263.
Vivian de Klerk and Richard Antrobus Swamp-donkeys and Rippers:
The Use of Slang and Pejorative Terms to Name ‘the other’
Alternation 11,2 (2004) 264-284.

Luanga Kasanga New Ways of Speaking: Prolegomenon to the Study

of Creativity in a South African Variety of English
Alternation 11,2 (2004) 285-307.
Usha Desai and Malini Ramsay-Brijball Tracing Gujarati Language
Development Philologically and Sociolinguistically
Alternation 11,2 (2004) 308-324.
Nathan Oyori Ogechi Lexicalization in Sheng
Alternation 11,2 (2004) 325-342.
Rita Ribbens ‘Yes sir, no baas, three bags full’
Alternation 11,2 (2004) 343-364.
Mompoloki Bagwasi A Critical Discourse Analysis of Forms of
Address in Letters between Batswana Chiefs and British
Administrators
Alternation 11,2 (2004) 365-385.
Thabisile Buthelezi Lexical Reinforcement and Maintenance of
Gendered Stereotypes in isiZulu
Alternation 11,2 (2004) 386-400.
Felicity Horne Some Aspects of AIDS-related Discourse in Post-
Apartheid South African Culture
Alternation 11,2 (2004) 401-419.
Aquilina Mawadza Metaphor, Stigma and HIV/ AIDS Discourse in
Zimbabwe
Alternation 11,2 (2004) 420-439.
Shakila Reddy Safe Sex or Safe Love? Competing Discourses within
the Context of HIV/ Aids
Alternation 11,2 (2004) 440-453.
Priya Narismulu ‘It’s a matter of trust’: Young People in South Africa
and the Discourse of HIV/ Aids Prevention
Alternation 11,2 (2004) 454-473.
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Alternation 12,1a (2005)

ARTICLES
Rembrandt Klopper Informatics in South Africa: An Overview
Alternation 12,1a (2005) 1-12.
Maxwell M. Buthelezi, Sam Lubbe and Rembrandt Klopper Tele-
centres Islands in a Sea of Information with no Ship in Sight
Alternation 12,1a (2005) 13-42.
Bongikosi Sikhakhane, Sam Lubbe and R. Klopper The Digital Divide
and Access to Information Communication Technologies
Alternation 12,1a (2005) 43-66.
Manoj Maharaj The Potential Crisis Facing South African
Universities
Alternation 12,1a (2005) 67-78.
Stephen Cowley and Takayuki Kanda Friendly Machines: Interaction-
Oriented Robots Today and Tomorrow
Alternation 12,1a (2005) 79-106.
Rembrandt Klopper The Evolution of Human Communication from
Nonverbal Communication to Electronic Communications
Alternation 12,1a (2005) 107-120.
Rembrandt Klopper Future Communications: Mobile Communica-
tions, Cybernetics, Neuro-Informatics and Beyond
Alternation 12,1a (2005) 121-144.
A. Gordon and K. Bhowan Factors that Influence Online Shopping
Behaviours
Alternation 12,1a (2005) 145-170.
Laurette Pretorius and Andries Barnard Ethical Decision-Making
Skills for Responsible Citizens of Cyberspace: Quo Vadis?
Alternation 12,1a (2005) 171-196.
Sam Lubbe and Mudaray Marimuthu Only the Flexible will Survive
Alternation 12,1a (2005) 197-220.
Shaun Pather, Geoff Erwin and Corrie Strümpfer Supporting Part-
time Masters Students Towards Successful Research Dissertations:
A Case Study
Alternation 12,1a (2005) 221-240.
Sam Lubbe, Les Worrall and Rembrandt Klopper Challenges in

Postgraduate Research: How Doctorates Come Off the Rails
Alternation 12,1a (2005) 241-262.
Rikesh Harypursat, Sam Lubbe and Rembrandt Klopper The Thinking
Styles of a Group of Information Systems and Technology
Students
Alternation 12,1a (2005) 263-280.
Patricia Margaret Alexander Harnessing GIS to Extend HCI
Teaching
Alternation 12,1a (2005) 281-304.
Kirstin Krauss Visual Aesthetics and its Effect on Communication
Intent: A Theoretical Study and Website Evaluation
Alternation 12,1a (2005) 305-330.
Udo Richard Averweg Applicability of the Technology Acceptance
Model in Three Developing Countries: Saudi Arabia, Malaysia and
South Africa
Alternation 12,1a (2005) 331-343.
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Alternation 12,1b (2005)
ARTICLES
M.R. de Villiers e-Learning Artefacts: Are They Based on Learning
Theory?
Alternation 12,1b (2005) 345-372.
B.J. Mallinson and D.A. Sewry The Development and Evolution of an
Information Systems Honours Module in e-Learning
Alternation 12,1b (2005) 373-396.
Andries Barnard, Laurette Pretorius and Lucas Venter The Influence
of the ECT Act on a Typical Computing Curriculum
Alternation 12,1b (2005) 397-412.
Peter Mkhize and Sam Lubbe Just Because You Can, it Doesn’t Mean
that you Should
Alternation 12,1b (2005) 413-428.
Tanya Reinhardt and Nelishia Pillay An Analysis of Learning

Difficulties Experienced by First Time Spreadsheet Users
Alternation 12,1b (2005) 429-454.
Ravina Sewlal and Sam Lubbe Establishing a New University
Information Systems and Technology School: The Relationship
between IS&T, BIS and IM
Alternation 12,1b (2005) 455-466.
Lisa Seymour, Irwin Brown, E. Beck, F. Khatree and L. Morley
Factors Affecting Usage of Web-Based Learning Tools
Alternation 12,1b (2005) 467-488.
Alta van der Merwe, Paula Kotzé and J. Cronjé The
Functionality of a Requirements Elicitation Procedure
Developed for Process Modelling within the Higher Education
Application Domain
Alternation 12,1b (2005) 489-514.
Irwin Brown, Belinda Knol and Simon Vincent Using Cluster Analysis
to Investigate the Role of Culture in the Adoption of Web-Based
Learning Tools
Alternation 12,1b (2005) 515-542.
Charmain Cilliers, André Calitz and Jéan Greyling The Application
of the Cognitive Dimension Framework for Notations as an
Instrument for the Usability Analysis of an Introductory
Programming Tool
Alternation 12,1b (2005) 543-576.
Leila Goosen and Vreda Pieterse Student Perceptions of Learning
Object-Oriented Programming
Alternation 12,1b (2005) 577-592.
J.O. Dehinbo Determining Suitable Programming Language(s) for the
BTech (IT) Degree
Alternation 12,1b (2005) 593-614.
Lyrice Cohen Introducing BCom Information Systems Students to
Basic Programming
Alternation 12,1b (2005) 615-626.

Anesh Maniraj Singh Changing Face of e-Commerce in SA: 2001 -

2004
Alternation 12,1b (2005) 627-649.
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ARTICLES
Rembrandt Klopper Applied Informatics Research in South Africa
Alternation 12,2 (2005) 1-9.
M.R. (Ruth) de Villiers Interpretive Research Models for Informatics:
Action Research, Grounded Theory, and the Family of Design- and
Development Research
Alternation 12,2 (2005) 10-52.
Gebhre Embaye, Sam Lubbe and Rembrandt Klopper The Effective
Use of Computer Systems at the University of KwaZulu-Natal
Alternation 12,2 (2005) 53-78.
Desmond W. Govender and Manoj S. Maharaj The Attitudes of
Educators to Information Technology Adoption in School Settings
Alternation 12,2 (2005) 79-91.
Kirstin Krauss Tacit Design Issues Regarding the Use of Visual
Aesthetics for Web Page Design
Alternation 12,2 (2005) 92-131.
Darren Edwin Naidoo and Rembrandt Klopper A Framework of
Factors for Determining e-Readiness in Emerging Societies
Alternation 12,2 (2005) 132-158.
B.K. Ngubane and Sam Lubbe Information Heaven: Online
Information Access for Rural Communities
Alternation 12,2 (2005) 159-177.
C. Rambowan, Sam Lubbe and Rembrandt Klopper Perceptions of
Members in a South African Rural Community about the
Prospects of Becoming a Digital Village
Alternation 12,2 (2005) 178-210.
Vikash Ramharuk Using Health Information Systems to Solve the

Shortage of Medical Experts in Rural Communities
Alternation 12,2 (2005) 211-230.
Dan Remenyi and David Price Finding Research Questions Using a
Socratic Dialogue
Alternation 12,2 (2005) 231-244.
Jill Bradbury, Ronald Miller, Kim Acutt and Genevieve Lemon The
Challenge of Diversity: Participation Rates in a Flexible Learner
Support Programme
Alternation 12,2 (2005) 245-259.
Les Worrall, Rembrandt Klopper and Sam Lubbe The PhD: Pitfalls
and Pathways
Alternation 12,2 (2005) 260-282.
Anesh Maniraj Singh Ergonomic Design of IT Teaching Laboratories
Alternation 12,2 (2005) 283-309.
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Alternation Special Edition Number 2 (2005)

ARTICLES
Johannes A. Smit and P. Pratap Kumar Introduction
Alternation Special Edition No. 2 (2005) 1-9.
Johannes A. Smit and P. Pratap Kumar G.C. Oosthuizen and the
Study of Religion in KwaZulu-Natal
Michel Clasquin ‘Once the Buddha was a Seagull ...’: Reading
Jonathan Livingston Seagull as a Mahayana Buddhist Text
Alleyn Diesel The Suffering Mothers. The Hindu Goddesses as
Empowering Role Models for Women
Leslie S. Nthoi Mwali: A God of War or a God of Peace?

N.S. Turner Strategies for Expressing Social Conflict within

Communal African Societies in Southern Africa
Mpilo Pearl Sithole The Secular Basis of Traditional Leadership in
KwaZulu-Natal
Musa W. Dube Circle Readings of the Bible/ Scriptoratures
J. Enuwosa Kirimomo: A Hermeneutical Approach in Gospel
Proclamation among Urhobo of the Niger Delta
A.O. Nkwoka The Challenge of Nigerian Pentecostal Theology and the
Perspecuity of the Scriptures
Maarman Sam Tshehla The Prophetic Vocation of the African
Scholar: A Celebration of Wholeness
Denzil Chetty Towards a Mudzimu Hermeneutic: A Basuto Reading of
the ‘Strange Woman’ in the Post-Exilic Texts
J.A. Loubser The Steel Hand of Domination in a Velvet Glove of
Hegemony – Aspects of Religious Discourse in China
Suleman Dangor Jihad: Between War and Peace
Hassan Ndzovu Religion in the Political Culture of Kenya
A.L. Pitchers Facing the Reality of the Ethiopian Encounter
Pakiso T. Tondi Pan-African Thought and Practice
Hendrik Rudolf Tjibeba The AMEC Schism in Namibia (1946)

Manila Soni Amin The Long Walk to Freedom: From Religious

Instruction to Religion in Education
P. Pratap Kumar From Denial and Displacement to Re-adjustment:
Indian Diaspora in South Africa
Itumeleng Mekoa Africa in the Twenty-first Century: An Alternative
Vision for the Second Struggle for Liberation
REVIEW ARTICLE
J.A. Loubser Before Gandhi: Leo Tolstoy’s Non-Violent Kingdom of
God; Leo Tolstoy: The Kingdom of God is within You: Christianity
not a Mystic Religion but a New Theory of Life
KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Mpilo Pearl Sithole Science versus Indigenous Knowledge: A
Conceptual Accident
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ARTICLES
Itumeleng Mekoa Introduction
Alternation 13,1 (2006) 1-5.
Itumeleng Mekoa, James Mtimkulu and Milton Nkoane The
Challenges Facing African Thought and African Universities in the
21st Century
Alternation 13,1 (2006) 6-20.

M.B. Ramose The Philosophy of Funding Higher Education after the

Cold War: The Case of South Africa
Alternation 13,1 (2006) 21-48.
Molebatsi Milton Nkoane The Africanisation of the University in
Africa
Alternation 13,1 (2006) 49-69.
J. Teboho Lebakeng, M. Manthiba Phalane and Nase Dalindjebo
Epistemicide, Institutional Cultures and the Imperative for the
Africanisation of Universities in South Africa
Alternation 13,1 (2006) 70-87.
Elias Cebekhulu and Evan Mantzaris Stop Beating about the Bush –
The UKZN Merger: A Tragic Mishap
Alternation 13,1 (2006) 88-105.
F. Mazibuko Women in Academic Leadership in South Africa:
Conventional Executives or Agents of Empowerment
Alternation 13,1 (2006) 106-123.
Elizabeth de Kadt Planning Complexity: Access and Retention at a
Merging Institution
Alternation 13,1 (2006) 124-149.
Fazel Khan Analysing Access in the Context of the Merger
Alternation 13,1 (2006) 150-164.
Charlotte Mbali Performance Management in Higher Education
Alternation 13,1 (2006) 165-181.
Elias Cebekhulu and Evan Mantzaris Labour Pains and University
Mergers: The Case of UKZN
Alternation 13,1 (2006) 182-202.
Sechaba Mahlomaholo and Thabang Matobako Service Learning in
South Africa held Terminally Captive by Legacies of the Past
Alternation 13,1 (2006) 203-217.
Elias Cebekhulu, Evan Mantzaris and Michael Nhlapho The Demise
of Student Movement in Higher Education Institutions in South
Africa: A Case Study of UKZN
Alternation 13,1 (2006) 218-245.

Itumeleng Mekoa Introducing Afrocentric Studies in the Newly

Merged University of KwaZulu-Natal: Systematic and Thematic
Principles for an African University
Alternation 13,1 (2006) 246-278.
Sultan Khan and Evan Mantzaris Indigenous Knowledge and the
African Curriculum: A Case Study at the University of KwaZulu-
Natal
Alternation 13,1 (2006) 279-297.
Emmanuel Mgqwashu Language and the Postcolonial Condition
Alternation 13,1 (2006) 298-325.
CONFERENCE OPENING ADDRESS

F. Mazibuko The African University in the 21st Century: Indigenous
Knowledge Systems and the Academy
Alternation 13,1 (2006) 326-339.
BOOK REVIEWS
Fazel Khan and Refilwe Senatle Structural Adjustment and
Universities in Africa; Silvia Federici, George Caffentzis and
Ousseina Alidou (eds): A Thousand Flowers – Social Struggles
against Structural Adjustment in African Universities
Alternation 13,1 (2006) 340-349.
Vasant Kaiwar Ghandi in South Africa; Surendra Bhana and Goolam
Vahed: The Making of a Political Reformer: Ghandi in South
Africa, 1893-1914
Alternation 13,1 (2006) 350-357.
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ARTICLES
Sultan Khan and Rob Pattman Introduction
Alternation 13,2 (2006) 1-10.

Mokong Simon Mapadimeng Organisational Culture, Productivity and

Performance in the South African (SA) Workplace: Increasing
Polarisation or Cohesion? A Case Study of Cranco Metals Ltd
Alternation 13,2 (2006) 11-40.
Sithembiso Bhengu Contradictions in the Construction of Difference
and Polarisation in Chinese/ Taiwanese Industries in KZN:
Isithebe, Ladysmith and Newcastle
Alternation 13,2 (2006) 41-69.
Ercüment Çelik Informalisation of Women’s Labour and New Types
Of Labour Organisations: The Cases of SEWA and SEWU
Alternation 13,2 (2006) 70-99.
Fazel Khan The Clash of Economic Interest: BEE’s and the Exclusion
of Emerging SMME’s in KZN
Alternation 13,2 (2006) 100-116.
Nirmala Gopal and Vanitha Chetty No Women Left Behind:
Examining Public Perspectives on South African Police Services’
Handling of Violence against South African Women
Alternation 13,2 (2006) 117-133.
Shanta Singh ‘A World of Darkness’ – Polarisation of Prisoners
Alternation 13,2 (2006) 134-152.
Elias Cebekhulu, Evangelos A. Mantzaris and Eugenia N. Cebekhulu
Not yet Uhuru! Power Struggles in a Neo-liberal University
Alternation 13,2 (2006) 153-173.
Sultan Khan, Benoit Lootvoet and Evangelos A. Mantzaris The Clash
between Traditional and Modern Systems of Governance in the
Durban Metropolis – A Tale of Two Administrative Civilisations
Alternation 13,2 (2006) 174-197.
Kirsten Trotter The Importance of Narratives in South African Policy
Work: How to Hear the Voices in a Participatory Democracy
Alternation 13,2 (2006) 198-214.
Mxolisi Love Lace Ngcongo and Mduduzi Nkosinathi Gladwin Mtshali
Hostel Re-development and Emerging Conflict for Housing Tenure
Within the Umlazi Tehuis in the eThekwini Municipality – A
Study of Key Social Polarisation Indicators
Alternation 13,2 (2006) 215-235.
Ruth Hoskins The Potential of School Libraries for Promoting Less

Polarised Social Relations in the Post-apartheid Era
Alternation 13,2 (2006) 236-251.
Rob Pattman and Deevia Bhana Black Boys with Bad Reputations
Alternation 13,2 (2006) 251-272.
Ari Sitas Seasons of Drought have no Rainbows – An Experiential
Note on Poverty and Survival Networks in South Africa
Alternation 13,2 (2006) 273-284.
BOOK REVIEW
Mokong Simon Mapadimeng The Great Trek North. The Great Trek
North: The Expansion of South African Media and ICT Companies
into the SADC Region (2006) by Console Tleane
Alternation 13,2 (2006) 285-289.
RECENT BOOK REVIEWS

Judith Lütge Coullie Recently Reviewed South African Life Writing
Publications V
Alternation 13,2 (2006) 290-308.
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ARTICLES
Rembrandt Klopper Introduction: Themes in Present-day Management
Studies in South Africa
Alternation 14,1 (2007) 1-7.
Charles O’Neill, Sanjay Soni, David Coldwell and Judy Edmonds
Towards a Testable Model of the Impact of Specific
Entrepreneurial Networks on the Success of Businesses in the
Pietermaritzburg Region
Alternation 14,1 (2007) 8-33.

Mogie Subban, Pregala Pillay, Kanti Bhowan and Kishore Raga
Towards Effective Service Delivery via Customer Relationship
Management
Alternation 14,1 (2007) 34-58.
Sharon Husselman, Sam Lubbe and Rembrandt Klopper Implications
for e-Business Readiness in the KwaZulu-Natal Chemical Industry
Alternation 14,1 (2007) 59-85.
Kasthuri Poovalingam and Dayaneethie Veerasamy The Impact of
Communication on Customer Relationship Marketing among
Cellular Service Providers
Alternation 14,1 (2007) 86-119.
D.A.L. Coldwell, M. Williamson and S. Cameron The Learning
Organization in a Global Context: Perceptions of HR Practitioners
at UK and SA Tertiary Institutions
Alternation 14,1 (2007) 120-136.
S.B. Cassim and D. Bexiga The Regulation of Advertising to Children:
A Comparative Assessment
Alternation 14,1 (2007) 137-165.
Ashika Pramlal and Sanjana Brijball Parumasur Assessing Members’
Perceptions of Team Cohesiveness in a Public Service Department
Alternation 14,1 (2007) 166 - 196
D.A.L. Coldwell and S. Perumal Perceptions of the Measurability,
Importance and Effects of Work Equity on Job Satisfaction and
Work Motivation: An Exploratory Study of the Utility of Equity
Theory
Alternation 14,1 (2007) 197-217.
M.R. (Ruth) de Villiers, Sam Lubbe and Rembrandt Klopper Action
Research: The Participative Researcher or Experiential Approach
Alternation 14,1 (2007) 218-242.
Ashley G. Frank On the Value of Survey-based Research in Finance
Alternation 14,1 (2007) 243-261.
Rembrandt Klopper, Sam Lubbe and Hemduth Rugbeer The Matrix
Method of Literature Review
Alternation 14,1 (2007) 262-276.

Johan van Loggerenberg Those Who Can, Do, and Those Who
Cannot, Teach
Alternation 14,1 (2007) 277-291.
Les Worrall, Sam Lubbe and Rembrandt Klopper Academic Research
and Management Practice
Alternation 14,1 (2007) 292 - 316.
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ARTICLES
Catherine Addison Introduction: Nature and Power – Forests
Alternation 14,2 (2007) 1-8.
Lindy Stiebel ‘The Thirst for the Wilderness was on Me’: Africa-as-
Wilderness in Rider Haggard’s African Romances
Alternation 14,2 (2007) 9-24.
Ian Glenn Francois Levaillant and the Mapping of Southern Africa
Alternation 14,2 (2007) 25-39.
Gillian Gane The Forest and the Road in Novels by Chinua Achebe
and Ben Okri
Alternation 14,2 (2007) 40-52.
Syned Mthatiwa The Depiction of Forests/ Trees and Malawi’s Rural
Landscape in the Poetry of Lupenga Mphande and Zondiwe Mbano
Alternation 14,2 (2007) 53-71.
Dan Wylie ‘Long and Wandering Forest’: Sidney Clouts,
Geophilosophy and Trees
Alternation 14,2 (2007) 72-96.
Pat Louw Identity, Place and ‘The Gaze’ in The Woodlanders by
Thomas Hardy and dream forest by Dalene Matthee
Alternation 14,2 (2007) 97-115.
Catherine Addison Terror, Error or Refuge: Forests in Western
Literature
Alternation 14,2 (2007) 116-136.

Patsy Maritz The Enchanted Forest as a Place of Knowing

Alternation 14,2 (2007) 137-157.
Sr. N. Gloria Irenate Biyela (FSF) Securing Women and Children at
King Shaka’s Well-resourced and Formidable Refuge, Nkandla
Forest
Alternation 14,2 (2007) 158-188.
Anne Hutchings Ritual Cleansing, Incense and the Tree of Life –
Observations on Some Indigenous Plant Usage in Traditional Zulu
and Xhosa Purification and Burial Rites
Alternation 14,2 (2007) 189-217.
David Levey and Chris Mann Environmentally Aware Art, Poetry,
Music and Spirituality: Lifelines
Alternation 14,2 (2007) 218-237.
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ARTICLES
Urmilla Bob Introduction: Nature and People
Alternation 15,1 (2008) 1-16.
Urmilla Bob, Kamilla Swart, Brij Maharaj and Pat Louw Nature,
People and Environment: Overview of Selected Issues
Alternation 15,1 (2008) 17-44.
Fathima Ahmed Development Pressures and Management Constraints
in the Coastal Zone – the Case of KwaZulu-Natal North Coast
Alternation 15,1 (2008) 45-65.
Rohith Sookrajh Nature-based Sport Events and the Physical
Environment: A Case Study of the Halfway-Telkom Midmar Mile
Alternation 15,1 (2008) 66-86.
Vadi Moodley Socio-cultural and Spatial Approaches to
Environmental Health in Urban Contexts
Alternation 15,1 (2008) 87-109.

Urmilla Bob Rural Women’s Relations to Land Resources in

KwaZulu-Natal: Issues of Access and Control
Alternation 15,1 (2008) 110-134.
Ismail Banoo and Jyotikumarie Jaggernath Review of Policies
Impacting on Sustainability of Natural Woodlands in southern
Africa
Alternation 15,1 (2008) 135-159.
Nitesh Poona Invasive Alien Plant Species in South Africa: Impacts
and Management Options
Alternation 15,1 (2008) 160-179.
Catherine Helen Traynor, Trevor Hill, Zodwa Ndela and Phumzile
Tshabalala What’ll We Do With Wattle? The Dualistic Nature of
Acacia mearnsii as Both a Resource and an Alien Invasive
Apecies, Swaziland
Alternation 15,1 (2008) 180-205.
Denis Rugege and Morris Mampane Maleka Participatory Mobile
Geographic Information Systems (GIS) for the Regularisation of
Customary Land Administration into Statutory Law: A Case of
South Africa
Alternation 15,1 (2008) 206-221.
Onisimo Mutanga and Clement Adjorlolo Assessing the Spatial
Patterns of Crop Damage by Wildlife using GIS
Alternation 15,1 (2008) 222-239.
Edwin Carl Perry, Vadi Moodley and Urmilla Bob Open Spaces,
Nature and Perceptions of Safety in South Africa: A Case Study
of Reservoir Hills, Durban
Alternation 15,1 (2008) 240-267.
Noel Chellan and Sultan Khan Contesting Ecotourism Development in
the iSimangaliso Wetland Park in KwaZulu-Natal
Alternation 15,1 (2008) 268-289.
Noel Chellan and Urmilla Bob Sustainable Ecotourism in the
uKhahlamba Drakensberg Park: A Stakeholder Analysis
Alternation 15,1 (2008) 290-315.
Myrtle Hooper The ‘grove of death’ in Pauline Smith’s ‘The Miller’
Alternation 15,1 (2008) 316-337.
Felicity Wood The Occult, the Erotic and Entrepreneurship: An

Analysis of Oral Accounts of ukuthwala, Wealth-giving Magic,
Sold by the Medicine Man Khotso Sethuntsa
Alternation 15,1 (2008) 338-366.
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ARTICLES
Jabulani Mkhize, Corinne Sandwith and Shane Moran Introduction
Alternation 15,2 (2008) 1-10.
Brian Fulela Checking the Post: Derrida and the Apartheid Debate
Alternation 15,2 (2008) 11-37.
Corinne Sandwith The Work of Cultural Criticism in South Africa:
Re-visiting The South African Opinion
Alternation 15,2 (2008) 38-70.
Claudia Mamet Re-constructing Grey Street in Imraan Coovadia’s
The Wedding
Alternation 15,2 (2008) 71-90.
Thabo Tsehloane Globalisation and Modern South African Black
Political Thought: John Langalibalele Dube and Anton Muziwakhe
Lembede
Alternation 15,2 (2008) 91-105.
Mokong Simon Mapadimeng Indigenous African Cultures and
Relevance to Socio-economic Progress and Development: A
Critical Review
Alternation 15,2 (2008) 106-127.
Shane Moran Academic Postcolonial Resistances and South Africa
Alternation 15,2 (2008) 128-157.
Karen Haire and D.S. Matjila Teaching for Cultural Relevance and
Restoration in the Multi-lingual South African Setting: The
Pedagogical Potential of Bi-lingual Setswana-English Stories
Alternation 15,2 (2008) 158-180.
Thabisile Buthelezi Exploring the Role of Conceptual Blending in

Developing the Extension of Terminology in isiZulu Language
Alternation 15,2 (2008) 181-200.
Richard Lee Guarding the Novel: The Stone Country and Literary
Representation
Alternation 15,2 (2008) 201-243.
Craig MacKenzie Orality and the South African Short Story: Es’kia
Mphahlele’s ‘Mrs Plum’
Alternation 15,2 (2008) 244-253.
Dianne Shober Conflicts and Invisibility in Ralph Ellison’s Invisible
Man
Alternation 15,2 (2008) 254-265.
J.A. Kearney On Teaching Poetry
Alternation 15,2 (2008) 266-300.
Emmanuel Mfanafuthi Mgqwashu Literate English for
Epistemological Access: The Role of English Studies
Alternation 15,2 (2008) 301-328.
Rajendra Chetty and Dominique Mwepu Language Policy and
Education in South Africa: An Alternative View of the Position of
English and African Languages
Alternation 15,2 (2008) 329-345.
Camille Tabosa-Vaz Reconfiguring Home: Charlotte Brontë Meets
Njabulo Ndebele
Alternation 15,2 (2008) 346-367.
Pravina Pillay Re-reading The Purloined Letter
Alternation 15,2 (2008) 368-401.
Sikhumbuzo Mngadi Mandela’s Ego: A ‘Cock’ and ‘Bull’ Story
Alternation 15,2 (2008) 402-415.
Book Review Article

Jabulani Mkhize Shades of Nkosi: Still Beating the Drum
Alternation 15,2 (2008) 416-426.
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Interdisciplinary Journal for the Study of

Issue Index 1994 - 2008

Volume 1, Number 1, 1994

Volume 1, Number 2, 1994

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Noverino Canonici The Trickster in Zulu Folktales

Volume 2, Number 1, 1995

Leon de Kock Reading History as Cultural Text

Jean-Philippe Wade Recent Southern African Books from the

Volume 2, Number 2, 1995

R.. Bailey African Evidence for Three Proto-World Lexical Roots

Johannes A. Smit Academic Writing; C.B. Peter: A Guide to Academic

Volume 3, Number 1, 1996

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Damian Garside The Grotesque in Literature? Michael J. Meyer:

Volume 3, Number 2, 1996

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David Alvarez Train-congregants and Train-friends: Representations

Meredith M. Gadsby Inventing Cultural Identities in African, African-

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Volume 4, Number 1, 1997

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Mzo Sirayi Indigenous African Theatre: The Cultural Renaissance of

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Johannes A. Smit Homo Hermeneuticus: Historical Narrative in the

Volume 4, Number 2, 1997

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Gregory H. Kamwendo The Use of Vernacular Languages in the

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Lannie Birch James Barry’s Corporeal Archive: An Hermafrodite at

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James Ogude Writing Resistance on the Margins of Power:

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M.C. Hoza The African Woman in Jolobe and Mema’s Poems: A

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Emeka Nwabueze Desperation and Anger: The Effect of Environment

Varijakshi Prabhakaran South Africa Telugu Surnames – A

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Betty Govinden Space and Identity in Jayapraga Reddy’s Unpublished

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Themba Moyo Malawi's Marginalisation of Indigenous Languages in

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N.N. Mathonsi Common Ground; Vusumuzi Maurice Bhengu:

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