On 6 August 2009 the then national Minister of Arts and Culture, Lulu Xingwana, was supposed to open Innovative Women: 10 Contemporary Black Women Artists, an art exhibition that her ministry had funded to the tune of R300,000.
New immigrants and the recently urbanised increasingly co-occupy estuarial zones
loosely structured by state social policy and hegemonic cultural norms. In these
zones, hyperdiversity, transience and transgressions are becoming the norm. Amid
In one of his many memorable phrases, Benedict Anderson describes imperialism as a process of “stretching the tight skin of nation over the gigantic body of empire” (86). To Mohandas Gandhi, a reluctant nationalist at best, this sentiment would have seemed back to front.
For much of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the image of baby-farming as an opportunistic and deceitful way to dispose of an unwanted child was a typecast that prevailed in many parts of the world.
