The Pre-Industrial Revolution period encompassed “the transition from foraging (gathering of wild fruits and hunting wild animals) to farming and domestication of animals beginning about 10,000 years ago” (Schwab, 2016: 11). By the time of 1IR in Britain in the 18th century (Encyclopedia Britannica), Britain, Spain, Portugal, France, Germany and other Western countries were already aware of the existence of rich natural resources in Africa (and other colonized parts of the world) (Austin, 2021).
The Impact of
Digital- Driven
Warfare on Africa
Governance of Cybersecurity-the case of South Africa.” The African Journal of Information and Communication 20. Available at: https://www.naval-news.com/naval-news/2021/01/how-china-is-mapping -seabed- of-the-Indian-Ocean/.
Communication
Since then, the bilateral relationship between the states has ebbed and flowed, leading to the dynamic use of public diplomacy on both sides. Instant translation can be extremely beneficial for public diplomacy to overcome language barriers (Baldwin, 2019).
The Fourth Industrial
Revolution and the Political Settlement in South
Africa’s Mining Industry
Understanding the potential impact of 4IR on political settlement in South Africa's mining industry is important for several reasons. The political arrangement in South Africa's mining industry broadly mimics the national political arrangement. Organized labor has historically played an important role in South Africa's mining industry and its transition to democracy (Buhlungu et al., 2008).
The skill content of recent technological changes: an empirical study. The Quarterly Journal of Economics. Mining Enclave to Economic Catalyst: Major Mineral Projects in Developing Countries.” The Brown Journal of World Affairs. Difficult choices for the South African mining industry.” The Journal of the Southern African Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, 115.
Determinism and Indeterminacy in the History of Technology.” The John Hopkins University Press and the Society for the History of Technology.
The Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) and
This is particularly evident in the public sector environment, with its complicated bureaucracy and its complex structures. This is a direct response to the need to understand the implications of 4IR in service delivery in the public sector identified in the Industrial Revolution SA Digital Economy Summit, hosted by the Gauteng Government. From this, it is clear that one of the greatest needs lies in the investment of skill upskilling and a 'telecommunications infrastructure'.
This is further hindered in the lack of skills and literacy levels (Olaitan et al., 2021: 6). Finally, in the 'IT infrastructure' assessment framework, it was determined that South Africa still needs. Available at: https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article business-schools-are-sas-natural-partner-in-the-fourth-industrial-revolution/.
Responding to the Challenges and Opportunities in the 4th Industrial Revolution in Developing Countries.” ResearchGate [online].
Towards a General Theory of Technology and Politics?
An encouraging feature in previous years has been the vibrancy of the debate, with many putting forward the notion of 'jumping'. This is the essential importance of the social sciences; a featured material from this special issue. Thus they cross different levels of political experience from local to national and international.
Some of this work begins by synthesizing many of the elements touched on in the preceding articles and the literature they have touched upon. These are enormous and suggest the scale of the task ahead for scholarship. The latter is more likely of the two, as scholarship in political science and IR tends to operate in paradigms that operate from different axioms and ideas about what objects or entities merit study.
Politics and IR science can embrace the 4IR technologies if not the concept of the 4IR itself (which is still subject to some much-needed hesitation and criticism [1]).
South Africa’s Pro-Military Lobby Risks Worsening
As Opperman (2021) states: "The problem we are sitting with is the threat of the Islamic State to South Africa if they. As Opperman (2021) puts it: “The problem we're sitting on is the threat of the Islamic State to South Africa if they get involved in Cabo Delgado, and that threat needs to be taken seriously. Recall Stratfor's (2009) view that an 'imperative' of post-apartheid South Africa remained not only the 'free flow of labor and capital' within the region but also, to implement this, 'a superior security capability able to project in south-central Africa.” The latter role, however, has long given both South African militarists and anti-militarists great cause for concern, in part because of the SANDF's illegality before 1994 and its uneven competence since then.
It may sound strange to leave such vast fossil resources untapped, but even the South African government accepted this logic in mid-2021 when its Nationally Determined Contribution bid called for: “Africa's just transition The South will seek international cooperation and support. Cyclone Idai: Rich countries are to blame for disasters like this - here's how to fix them.' The Conversation, 22 March [online]. Natural gas production in Mozambique and the political risk of Islamic militancy.' The Thinker, Volume 89: 85-94.
Delay in sending regional forces to Mozambique could come at a high price.” The Conversation, May 26 [online].
Lessons from Covid-19
So, I choose to view Covid-19 as a companion to travel with, rather than an enemy to be vanquished. This shift in my construction of Covid-19 helps me, firstly, to be less adversarial about Covid-19 and more accommodating and patient. And secondly, it helps me reflect on and even appreciate what Covid-19 has taught me about leadership.
My employers still have the same expectations and goals for staff as they did before Covid-19. Shared suffering both necessitates and enables closer and more authentic relationships than in the era before Covid-19. Covid-19 is not just a virus; it is a threat to our sense of self, to our humanity, to our survival, to the integrity of our family.
Covid-19 has created unique opportunities for a new understanding of what it means to lead and be a leader in an unprecedented time.
An Assessment of the Historical Mission of
Intellectuals Towards an African Revolution
One of the most recent influential left-wing thinkers in the Western world is Noam Chomsky. The "bourgeoisization" of the African academy has concretely limited the space of scholar-activists in the wider society. Despite the occasional huge cash the Federal Government of Nigeria (FGN) previously stashed in electricity distribution companies, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) has reported that Nigerian households spent N2 trillion on fuel and electricity in 2019 (The Punch Newspaper, 2020).
Like thousands of Nigerians, Ayodele became a well-known critic of the government after the election. He was constantly in the headlines for his strong views against the government of the day. Overall, it was a major setback in the socio-economic and political development of the country.
This document once painted the general importance of intellectuals in the creation of proto-feudal African societies.
An Interview With Peter Tatchell
In South African public discourse today, the anti-apartheid movement and the ANC have become almost synonymous. There were people in the ANC who said similar things: 'homosexuals should not be criminalised', but that was not the official position of the ANC. It was only at the end of the interview that I decided to ask the question about the ANC's position on LGBT+ rights.
I remember that the publicity I generated led to the ANC and the wider anti-apartheid movement being inundated with letters of protest and condemnation. It was Thabo Mbeki who then wrote to you directly to explain that the ANC would support LGBT+. While Thab Mbeki's letter in response was to me a watershed moment in the ANC's official commitment to LGBT+ rights, securing similar support within the United Democratic Front in South Africa would not have been possible without the tireless activism of LGBT+ activists within the anti-apartheid movement. , such as OLGA in Cape Town, and individuals such as Simon Nkoli, Ivan Toms and others.
But like many anti-apartheid activists in Britain and South Africa, I feel deeply let down by the way the ANC seems to have strayed so far from its original ideals.
Book Review
Transformation, Manic Managerialism and
Academentia
The chapters have been edited, updated, and the original ideas fleshed out and offered here in essay form rather than as columns.” So the 1970s have been pushed back to the 1950s, when in South Africa the common but curiously antiquated practice of selected published columns . actually sold books. Contemporary Campus Life: Transformation, Manic Managerialism and Academentia is a cry of angst against the scourge of 21st-century university managerialism, where lip service is given to clever window-dressing, endless mind-numbing book stabbing and sometimes eerie prayer-counting. , all wrapped in aspirational tones that spark resistance - and produce a pastiche of former Soviet opulence, where "this month 300 happy workers produced 400 new tractors." The result of this persistent and intellectually suicidal approach, not only in South Africa, has been that professorships have been relegated to a tame and minor role in universities, which in turn leads to them all too often abdicating their sacred trust and entering their offices, close their collective doors and, in the words of statesman William Pitt, 'tend their own gardens'. Although Tomaselli is known as a careful supervisor, one suspects that he is not unsympathetic to the concept of self-help and minimal administration.
And as a theorist at heart, it's hard to question the logic in this book, even if the word academentia is somewhat stuck in my esophagus. There was a time when much of South Africa's mining industry was controlled (after the days of the enigmatic and now unpopular Mr Rhodes) by historians. In The Idea of a University, published in 1854, Cardinal Newman speaks of "the deficiencies and irregularities of knowledge" within leadership and leadership.
It's focused on South Africa, but it's a universal knee-bending tale in the standings; the mystical god Science who employs all her worshippers; political and cultural correctness (although the index is so poor I can't definitively promise his use of the phrase); and the regime of the regimented and monitored office.
Prophets, Poets and Philosophers
Proponents and critics of literature on Pan-Africanism will eagerly benefit from this contemporary book on the theme of Pan-Africanism, carefully edited by the Nigerian scholar Adekeye Adebajo. When contextualized, this edited text is certainly a welcome addition to the discourse on Pan-Africanism. This book deftly adds to contributions made by other scholars who have also addressed the theme of Pan-Africanism.
It is observable that Adebajo's text has the same year of publication as the edited volume of the Afro-American Reiland Rabaka, The Routledge Handbook of Pan-Africanism (2020). From this list of scholars, it is fair to conclude that the subject of Pan-Africanism has been treated by scholars from all over the world. Instead, we outline the history of Pan-Africanism and the evolution, interaction, intellectual ideas and impact of the 36 Pan-African figures covered in this book" (Adebajo.
Disappointingly, Adebayo's text omits chapters on some of the "pioneering pan-African pantheons" that arguably laid the foundations of Pan-Africanism.
