Eliastam, John Leslie Benjamin(AOSIS OpenJournals, 2015-06-15)
This article explores the current state of the social value of ubuntu. The notion of ubuntu seems
to offer possibilities for nation building and social cohesion in post-Apartheid South Africa.
However, this is contested ...
Eliastam, John Leslie Benjamin(University of Pretoria, 2010-08-26)
Approaches to meaning and the way that texts are read have changed dramatically over the past century. This is particularly true where interpretations of texts have been given an authoritative status, and used to perpetuate ...
Eliastam, John Leslie Benjamin(OpenJournals Publishing, 2016-11-24)
This article uses a fictionalised encounter as the basis for an autoethnographic exploration of
the intersections between the South African social value of ubuntu and the notion of spatial
justice. Ubuntu describes the ...
Eliastam, John Leslie Benjamin(University of Pretoria, 2016)
South African communities have experienced levels of antipathy towards foreign migrants
since the transition to democracy in 1994. This incipient hostility erupted into widespread
violence in May 2008, where 62 foreign ...
