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Safundi: The Journal of South African and American Studies

Safundi -- "S" represents "South Africa," "a" stands for "America," and "fundi" comes from the Xhosa verb, "-funda," which translates as "to read/learn." Safundi is an online community of scholars, professionals, and others interested in comparing and contrasting the United States of America with the Republic of South Africa. Our journal, Safundi: The Journal of South African and American Studies, is the centerpiece of our online community. We believe that analyzing the two countries in a comparative and transnational context enhances our perspective on each, individually. While new comparative research is the focus of the journal, we also publish articles specifically addressing one country, provided the articles are of interest to the comparative scholar. Furthermore, our subject matter is as permeable as any country's border: we will consider research addressing other colonial and postcolonial states in Southern Africa and North America. Articles that Safundi publishes are academic in nature. Research papers are reviewed as they are submitted. Scholarly essays are welcomed. Any topic may be addressed. We hope to provide our readers with a diverse and insightful collection of articles in each issue. We publish on a quarterly basis. Our journal is peer-reviewed. Submissions are vetted by the editors-in-chief and the editorial board before they are accepted for publication. The views expressed in the articles are those of the authors and not of the editors or of Safundi itself.

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July 2005, Issue 19

The Language of Residential Exclusion: Comparisons between Cape Town and Farmingville, New York

By Grant Saff
The author addresses the conflictual nature of space and territory--and that control over space is a very clear signifier of power relations in society--by examining events in Cape Town and Farmingville, New York. The fact that these settings have seemingly little to nothing in common conveys the central theme of this paper: attempts at residential exclusion are consistent across space and time, and the rationale behind exclusion, while often seemingly based on ethnic and/or racial grounds, should be rooted in the spatial inequality that is a feature of property relations within capitalist societies.

Perspectives on Brown: The South African Experience

By Penelope Andrews
In this paper the author examines the lessons of Brown v. Board of Education for the South African struggle for racial equality, South Africa's constitutional transition, and the significance of Brown in pursuing the right to education in South Africa. The author concludes that although Brown was of tremendous symbolic value to South Africans, the South African constitutional framework, negotiated in the early 1990s, reflected global human rights developments more substantially than it did the American civil rights struggle. This is demonstrated by the mandate of the South African Constitution to consider international law and by the limited references to Brown by the Constitutional Court in comparison to the court's citation of international legal materials. Brown's waning substantive influence may also be attributed to the different path towards non-racialism taken by South Africans in contrast to the civil rights struggle in the United States.

Remembering Negative Pasts: Shriver, Donald W. Honest Patriots: Loving a Country Enough to Remember Its Misdeeds. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005.

By Christopher Saunders
The author reviews Donald W. Shriver's Honest Patriots: Loving a Country Enough to Remember Its Misdeeds (New York: Oxford University Press, 2005).

Kathrada’s Memoirs Prompts Questions: Kathrada, Ahmed. Memoirs. Cape Town: Struik Publications, 2005

By Cornelius Thomas
The author reviews Ahmed Kathrada's Memoirs (Cape Town: Struik Publications, 2005).

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