From 1952 to 1981, South Africa’s apartheid government ran an art school for the training of African art teachers at Indaleni, in what is today KwaZulu-Natal. The Art of Life in South Africa is the story of the students, teachers, art, and politics that circulated through a small school, housed in a remote former mission station. It is the story of a community that made its way through the travails of white supremacist South Africa and demonstrates how the art students and teachers made together became the art of their lives. Daniel Magaziner radically reframes apartheid-era South African history. Against the dominant narrative of apartheid oppression and black resistance, as well as recent scholarship that explores violence, criminality, and the hopeless entanglements of the apartheid state, this book focuses instead on a small group’s efforts to fashion more fulfilling lives for its members and their community through the ironic medium of the apartheid-era school. There is no book like this in South African historiography. Lushly illustrated and poetically written, it gives us fully formed lives that offer remarkable insights into the now clichéd experience of black life under segregation and apartheid.

The contents of this handy book reflect on subjects that would enable parents, teachers and students to broaden and deepen their insight in the interdependences of human beings in the social environment. Subjects like psychosocial development, education, religion, leadership and tradition feature prominently as indispensible interrelated life aspects that complement each other for human co-existence. The concept dichotomy, only seeks to highlight that in a diverse society, apart from the prevailing similarities, there are also differences; which enrich the nation and have to be appreciated and celebrated. The subject matter is structured in such a way that it is reader-friendly. Key words and or phrases used have been highlighted, explained and described in order to facilitate a mellow understanding of the subject matter. The educational implications in all subjects have been presented as guidance and a well crafted life - orientation towards successful teaching and learning. Syntheses have been provided in order to refresh the mind of the reader on what he had read. The author at the beginning of each chapter and some paragraphs has drawn- in the voices of great men and women, who through their powerful influence changed the world. This informative and educative book is compiled as a resource for students, teachers and teachers in service at the teaching and learning centres; namely, high schools, tertiary institutions, public and private colleges.

This series of publications aims to fill the gaps in our history, highlighting in particular the significant roles played by black leaders form all walks of life.

Focusing on leadership and strategic management, this volume offers insights into effective strategic management as a contribution towards educational transformation in South Africa, and guidelines on important aspects of good school management.

A text which describes the ways that European powers used science and scientific inquiry to enforce their supposed cultural superiority on societies of Africa, Asia and Latin America.