Author: Gert SlobPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Apartheid
Languages : en
Pages : 78
Book Description
Computerizing Apartheid
Author: Gert SlobComputerising Apartheid
Author: Control Data's PLATO Computer and South Africa's Apartheid Education System
Author: Thomas G. BartholomayPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Blacks
Languages : en
Pages : 53
Book Description
Microcomputers In African Development
Author: Suzanne Grant LewisPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429714351
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 183
Book Description
Drawing on recent research in the Sudan, Ivory Coast, Kenya and Tanzania, the contributing authors analyze broad patterns of social and political change brought about by the rapidly increasingly use of microcomputer technology in Africa.
South African Computer Science and Information Systems Research Trends
Author: Aurona GerberPublisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3031648811
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 467
Book Description
Terminal Signs
Author: Bennetta Jules-RosettePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
"Technology's impact on social change in two African settings is the subject of this study. The preparation of this book involved field research over a four-year period in Kenya and Ivory Coast. A longitudinal study has permitted [the author] to trace the enormous changes that have taken place in the availability of microcomputers in both settings and the growth of firms and educational institutions dedicated to computer use."--Pref.
Control Data Corporation's PLATO Computer and South Africa's Apartheid Education System
Author: Thomas G. BartholomayPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Apartheid
Languages : en
Pages : 53
Book Description
Apartheid’s Leviathan
Author: Faeeza BallimPublisher: Ohio University Press
ISBN: 0821447963
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
A fascinating study that shows how the intersection of technology and politics has shaped South African history since the 1960s. This book details the development of an interconnected technological system of a coal mine and of the Matimba and Medupi power stations in the Waterberg, a rural region of South Africa near the country’s border with Botswana. South Africa’s state steel manufacturing corporation, Iscor, which has since been privatized, developed a coal mine in the region in the 1970s. This set the stage for the national electricity provider, Eskom, to build coal-fueled power stations in the Waterberg. Faeeza Ballim follows the development of these technological systems from the late 1960s, a period of heightened repression as the apartheid government attempted to realize its vision of racial segregation, to the deeply fraught construction of the Medupi power station in postapartheid South Africa. The Medupi power station was planned toward the end of the first decade of the twenty-first century as a measure to alleviate the country’s electricity shortage, but the continued delay of its completion and the escalation of its costs meant that it failed to realize those ambitions while public frustration and electricity outages grew. By tracing this story, this book highlights the importance of technology to our understanding of South African history. This characterization challenges the idea that the technological state corporations were proxies for the apartheid government and highlights that their activities in the Waterberg did not necessarily accord with the government’s strategic purposes. While a part of the broader national modernization project under apartheid, they also set the stage for worker solidarity and trade union organization in the Waterberg and elsewhere in the country. This book also argues that the state corporations, their technology, and their engineers enjoyed ambivalent relationships with the governments of their time, relationships that can be characterized as both autonomous and immersive. In the era of democracy, while Eskom has been caught up in government corruption—a major scourge to the fortunes of South Africa—it has also retained a degree of organizational autonomy and offered a degree of resistance to those who sought to further corruption. The examination of the workings of these technological systems, and the state corporations responsible for them, complicates conventional understandings of the transition from the authoritarian rule of apartheid to democratic South Africa, which coincided with the transition from state-led development to neoliberalism. This book is an indispensable case study on the workings of industrial and political power in Africa and beyond.
Notes and Documents - Centre Against Apartheid
Author: United Nations Centre Against ApartheidPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Segregation
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Khnum-Ptah to Computer
Author: African Creation EnergyPublisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 9781300498919
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
"Khnum-Ptah to Computer" presents a comparative analysis between a variety of concepts, customs, cosmologies, and practices found in African Cultures to topics related to the field of Computer Science. The African origin of Binary Code, Logic, Computers, Programming, Robotics, Cyborgs, Androids, Virtual Reality, Artificial Intelligence, and Transhumanism are examined using Sound Right Reason to show a relationship between two dichotomies that have more in common than what meets the eye