In this article, I explore the relationship between two central strands in contemporary political culture in South Africa, the secular and the occult. These two strands are often seen as running parallel to one another and perceived as mutually exclusive, where one is dominant while the other is confined to obscurity and rendered invisible. Contrary to this view, I...

The link between security and development has been rediscovered after 9/11 by a broad range of scholars. Focusing on Southern Africa, the Security-Development Nexus shows that the much debated linkage is by no means a recent invention. Rather, the security/development linkage has been an important element of the state policies of colonial as well as post-colonial r...

"In this article I explore different competing temporalities in the former homeland of KaNgwane. While homelands are spatial entities, the geographical scars of apartheid, they are clearly also temporal entities, embodiments of apartheid's temporal divisions of worlds of tradition and worlds of modernity. I refer to this temporality as the dominant homeland tempora...