SAVUSA Student Publication Series

The Student Publication series has been designed to facilitate the publication of excellent South African MA-theses that are reviewed and reworked by the students into a book. The project offers the students a valuable opportunity for academic exposure in the Netherlands and is supported by SANPAD Student Publications can be ordered through Rozenberg Publishers. 

Student publications together with NiZa and SANPAD

Laureen van Aswegen
Diversity Explored: The Nature and Impact of Diversity Interventions at LSAM (PTY) ltd.

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 programme 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.

2007, ISBN: 978 90 5170 929 5, 89 pp., € 14.00

Andrew Faull
Policing Diversity: An Analysis of a Diversity Intervention and its Effects on a South African Police Service Station

Since the shift from apartheid to a constitutional democracy in South Africa, 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, combining an under-examined intersection of diversity and police cultural theory in South Africa, and emphasizing the need for greater attention to these issues.

2007, ISBN: 978 90 5170 930 8, 93 pp., € 14.00 




Bridgett Sass
Creating Systems of Symbolic Order: UWC Students' Tactics to Stay Safe from Potential Violence

This book focuses on students at the University of the Western Cape, 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’.

2006, ISBN: 978 90 5170 626 0, 110 pp., € 15.00 




Marinda van Niekerk
Persisting Advocates: The Unheard Stories of Adolescents Infected with and/or Affected by HIV/AIDS

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.

2006, ISBN: 978 90 5170 642 0, 130 pp., € 16.50 

Student Publications together with NiZa

Ngoanamadima Johannes Sello Mathabatha

The Struggle over Education in the Northern Transvaal: The Case of Catholic Mission Schools, 1948 to 1994 

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, studying the dynamics of traditions of struggle, resistance and compliance in the context of missionary education.

2005, ISBN: 978 90 5170 198 2, 115 pp., € 15.00