SAVUSA Student Publication Series

Laureen van Aswegen (2007)
Diversity Explored: The nature and impact of diversity interventions at LSAM (PTY) ltd

Publication year: 2007
SAVUSA SERIES
16,5 x 24 cm.
89 pag.
€ 14,00
ISBN 978 90 5170 929 5
NUR 740

If, as the Constitution states, South Africa is to grow towards a national culture of inclusiveness where difference is valued, then diversity interventions must ultimately deliver on this goal. In contrast to many other South African and African organisations, LSAM has been actively transforming its workplace since 1971. The latest phase of LSAM's equity reform program has been a company-wide diversity intervention implemented between 2004 and 2006. The aim of this study is to understand the nature of this intervention, and its impact on the organisation. The LSAM case study is a key step in the process of theorising diversity to develop standards for diversity work.

Andrew Faull (2007)
Policing Diversity: An analysis of a diversity intervention and its effects on a South African Police Service station

Publication year: 2007
SAVUSA SERIES
16,5 x 24 cm.
93 pag.
€ 14,00
ISBN 978 90 5170 930 8
NUR 740

The shift from apartheid to a constitutional democracy in South Africa brought with it a plethora of questions concerning ideas of nationhood, citizenship, and organisational transformation. Integrally caught up in the revolution, the South African Police Service (SAPS) has engaged in interventions aimed at restructuring and rearticulating its function while simultaneously attempting to maintain law and order. Andrew Faull's thesis is an analysis of one such intervention, studying the extent to which members are changing as a result of particular diversity workshops conducted in a region of the Western Cape. This work brings together an under-examined intersection of diversity and police cultural theory in South Africa, emphasizing the need for greater attention to these issues.

Bridgett Sass (2006)
Creating systems of symbolic order: UWC students' tactics to stay safe from potential violence

Publication year: 2006
SAVUSA SERIES
16,5 x 24 cm
110 pag.
€ 15,00
ISBN 978 90 5170 626 0
NUR 740

This book focuses on students at the University of the Western Cape, a former Disadvantaged 'bush' University that is situated on the Cape Flats, an area viewed as potentially violent owing to high crime rates. The author, a former UWC student herself, explores the strategies and tactics used by the students to create a system of ‘symbolic order’ for themselves, a feeling of relative safety in an unsafe environment. Illustrated with many personal stories, this book leaves the reader admiring the young people at UWC who refuse to give up the idea of a ‘normal life’.

Marinda van Niekerk (2006)
Persisting Advocates: The unheard stories of adolescents infected with and/or affected by HIV/AIDS

Publication year: 2006
SAVUSA-NiZA Student Publication Series
16,5 x 24 cm
130 pag.
€ 16,50
ISBN 978 90 5170 642 0
NUR 740
2006

HIV/AIDS has a devastating effect on children. Over the last dozen years the author of this book has spent a great deal of time with many teenagers, in her function as a minister to inner city adolescents in Pretoria, but also as a researcher. The moving stories of the young people who participated in this research tell us about existing prejudices, assumptions and values with regard to HIV/AIDS. In this way, it hopes and aims to contribute to improving the care for young people infected and affected by HIV/AIDS.

Ngoanamandima Johannes Sello Mathabatha (2005)
The struggle over education in the Northern Transvaal: The case of Catholic Mission Schools, 1948 to 1994

Publication year: 2005
SAVUSA-NiZA Student Publication Series
16,5 x 24 cm
115 pag.
€ 15,00
ISBN 978 90 5170 198 2
Salesprice in South Africa: 80 Rand

Catholic mission schools in South Africa have resisted the clamping influence of the Apartheid state for many years, especially after the introduction in 1953 of the Bantu Education Act. The book explores this theme within the context of the northern Transvaal between 1948 and 1994, exploring the dynamics of traditions of struggle, resistance and compliance in the context of missionary education.