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the potential implications of the relevant resolutions agreed at the December 2007 ANC
National Conference in Polokwane.
1405. Siwisa, B. CROWD RENTING OR STRUGGLING FROM BELOW? THE
CONCERNED CITIZEN’S FORUM IN MPUMALANGA TOWNSHIP, DURBAN,
1999–2005. Journal of Southern African Studies. 2008, 34(4):919-938.
This article considers the problems of water in Mpumalanga Township in Durban, South
Africa, and examines the emergence and activities of the Concerned Citizens Forum (CCF),
for whom activism around water services was centrally important. It contributes to the
debate over the backlog in municipal services delivery and the attendant emergence of new
social movements in post-apartheid South Africa. Set against a background of changes in
water policy, a profile of the water industry and the drive to cost recovery, the article
provides an account of collective action in Durban, by investigating the history and
activities of the CCF.
1406. Spiegel, A. RACISM AS EPITHET IN THE CONTEXT OF POST-
APARTHEID’S DEMOGRAPHIC PARITY GOALS. Anthropology Southern Africa.
2008, 31(3&4):103-113.
Nearly twenty years after the capitulation of the apartheid state, South Africa’s postapartheid
government continues to find it necessary to seek means to direct change in the
demographic profile of the country’s leading institutions towards a situation where it
reflects the national demographic profile. Among those is legislation to achieve what is
known as employment equity—which has been criticised for being a reverse form of
racism. The article outlines some of the features of that legislation and various policies that
have been introduced in order to realise its goals, considering some of the rhetoric
that has followed in which those policies as well as their implementation have been
described as racist.
1407. Steegstra, M. KROBO QUEEN MOTHERS: GENDER, POWER, AND CON-
TEMPORARY FEMALE TRADITIONAL AUTHORITY IN GHANA. Africa Today.
2009, 55(3):105-123.
This article focuses on the emergence and performance of Krobo queen mothers in
Southern Ghana. It seeks to highlight the significance of female traditional rulers in contemporary
Ghana and fill gaps in knowledge about their position in patrilineal societies.
Whereas it is often assumed that their position in general eroded because of colonialism and
missionary activities, and that in Ga-Dangme and Ewe (patrilineal)societies they have little
significant power, their position in Krobo is expanding and adjusting to modern demands.
The combination of holding traditional offices and acting as members of NGOs and
other organizations makes it possible for queen mothers to address current challenges and
exert power.
1408. Stephan, H., and A. F. Hervey. NEW REGIONALISM IN SOUTHERN
AFRICA: FUNCTIONAL DEVELOPMENTALISM AND THE SOUTHERN AFRICAN
POWER POOL. Politeia. 2008, 27(3):54-76.
This article is a treatment on how southern Africa might best develop a regional response
to mitigate the vagaries of globalisation. It opens with a review of the literature set on
regionalism. The authors then explain that in southern Africa regional interaction is at