Women Academics From South Africa

"Young people need to know that there is a difference between being anxious and having an anxiety condition."

"How Do I Live in This Strange Place?"

"Just without all the frills and complicated academic jargon."

"The cost for this will be for the Client’s account, with an additional Handling Fee of 15% charged on top of the Service Provider’s invoice."

"In most aspects of daily life, outlook and habits, I am Zulu in spite of my mission background’."

"Learning disabilities in childhood - some guidelines and cautions."

"Important aspects of Zulu culture were unrecognised and denied by Catholicism, including the recognition of ancestral power, the consulting of a diviner and certain forms of marriage."

"The management of a child with a learning disability"

"In spite of Christianity the permeating influence in the Nyuswa reserve is based more on Zulu culture than on any foreign culture’"

"Many white South Africans, including myself, are committed to contributing to South Africa. This is our home and at the same time we experience the tension of feeling we benefited from a long history of injustice and we wonder whether there is a place and role here for us now."

"To be reunited with society through cure was to effect a desired situation in life, whether that be social, biological or spiritual."

"This deeply anthropological understanding of health considered that it is in fact the process of achieving a desired state is of most significance to the sufferer."

"The whole question makes me feel deeply uncomfortable and I have been trying to work through this, in both a personal and academic context, for many years.”"

"I'll make me a world."

"Summary:Traces the lives and careers of the following doctors."

"the importance of red symbols as representing the change from sickness to good health because of the therapeutic power of symbolism for the sufferer"

"So if I look in the mirror and I look like crap, I feel like crap, then if I suddenly put a face on, I suddenly feel a little bit better, and I think it's part of my coping strategy."

"It's so funny isn't it, when you suddenly have something to write about you find your voice, and it's amazing the opportunities. I'm petrified of flying, but I actually flew a plane myself."

"I probably have always been an exhibitionist, but I've done things that I never thought I could do, and it is because of cancer. I'm dyslexic and I've just written a book. I'm not saying dyslexia stops you, but I never thought I was a writer."

"But beneath the phenomenon lie economic and political forces that have to do with the transformative history of the present"

"As a competitive athlete I know full well the highs and lows of winning and losing. Athletes experience sport participation on different levels."

"The burden of this particular study of rural settlement in the Scottish Highlands is to show that archaeology helps to achieve a deeper understanding of the transition from clan ownership to individual ownership during the period of Improvement that heralded the dawn of the new commercial age in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries."

"At the same time there is no question that Philosophy Departments should be teaching African Philosophy and Non-Western Philosophy."

"It is a personal honour to be elected to the British Academy, but I particularly hope that my appointment will contribute towards raising the international profile of Wits University."

"The structure of the human body, with its rotating hips and shoulders, enabled humans to use the throwing skill to great effect. It was only a matter of time before the early hurled objects began to take on the shapes of darts and arrows, followed at a later stage by the manufacture of arrowheads made from bone"

"I was given this lifeline of targeted therapy and it put my cancer to sleep, but what people don't get about it is that on average people get about six months extra life and I got two and a half years."

"I would like us to find ways to talk about mental health with young people where it didn’t have to take on this illness identity to get help"

"Teachers find it challenging to create open dialogue in sexuality education while at the same time maintaining discipline."

"According to this discovery, the oldest bows and bone arrows are now dated to just over 60 000 years old,”"

"These sites provide clues to the behaviour of early humans. The people who lived here were of the Homo sapiens species and there are signs that they lived as hunters as opposed to scavengers, as may have been the case with other human species such as Homo erectus and Homo ergaster."

"Why sexuality education in schools needs a major overhaul."

"Psychology has a chequered past in South Africa. On the one hand, it was used to bolster the apartheid regime’s racializing project, and was silent on the abuses meted out by the state. On the other hand, there was a small, but important, set of psychologists who wrote cogently about how psychology should be practiced in progressive and contextualized ways, and who provided support for people who suffered in opposing apartheid (e.g. detainees)."

"I tend to steer clear of providing advice, because it sets me up as some kind of expert on somebody else’s life. All I can say is that I am passionate about my work, and I enjoy going to the office each day"

"We have always written against the grain, which is the point of critique … of any weight"

"Teenage pregnancy is seen, on the whole, by researchers and service providers as a social problem."

"Many see this as “progressive,” but it’s retrogressive as imaginable. A discipline that for a century of its history was anti-essentialist is now sanctioning essentialisms of every kind."

"But not only white people should write about whites, or only men about men, or Navajos about the Navajo, or any human subjects only about themselves and their experiences of the world."

"Because I had to choose some teaching subjects, I chose mathematics."

"As a mathematician, your work consists of building a knowledge base, almost like building a house of bricks,each layer of bricks you lay has a solid foundation underneath it with no holes, gaps, or errors."

"SMID was both complex and comprehensive, with indices of linguistic, archaeological, historical, religious, and cultural topics, as well as individual words and phrases in the tablets."

"I hope in a future publication to expand the examination of the Knossos tablets to cover the rest of the personal names, and the present study is a step in that direction."

"As in the case of the As tablets, the names of the women are recorded in a number of different ways. Some tablets, e.g. Ap 639, Ap 769 and Ap 5864 (which may be part of Ap 639), contain the names of women."

"I think deep down I’m an eternal optimist. So, those things to me said, “I have a social and political responsibility to create more like me, or not even like me, even better than me.” I realised that when I finished my dermatology [degree] and I was the only African there. But I must say, in the department there were consultants who were very sensitive to my cause and very supportive. So I leaned towards those individuals and they kept encouraging me. I try not to have a victim mentality … there’s racism, there’s the question of women, etc. I always say to myself, “Okay, what can I do to change the status quo?” It’s about making things better."

"It is a balancing act. I think one has to set one’s own standards. Don’t compete with anyone because everyone’s situation is unique. I always say to women colleagues, I have one child and that was intentional, because that was the only way I could balance raising my child with having my career. Then again, you find people who have four or five children. You have to carve your own path. With mundane tasks, I delegate at home. For example, I’ve made sure that my helper is amazing. If I get a salary increase, hers also increases, because she’s my home manager. The third point is have a supporting husband, a supporting family. So, in a nutshell, it’s important to understand your own situation and not compete with others; instead, compete with yourself, be the best version of yourself. And you must love what you are doing. Talking about she balance academics with leadership."

"One of my role models was my brother, Mluleki Dlova. He died at a young age, and it was at his funeral that I learned how much he used to do at Gillette, as CEO of a department. I learned how much he was doing to help the staff and create bursaries for students because he was in a position of power. That was also something that planted a seed."

"Try to work with like-minded people. You will knock on many doors, but don’t give up, believe in yourself and believe in what you are doing."

"I am not cowardly and I keep my word. I am faithful to myself, ferocious to myself, and indulgent to others. That is I, the man. I love the song of love—that is I, the woman. I consciously create for myself illusions and dreams, that is I the artist … I am much more a man than a woman. The desire to please and to pity alone make me a woman. I hear and I take note … I am neither man nor woman—I am I."

"I am deeply honoured and appreciative of the confidence expressed by the University Council in me. I am committed together with the University’s management to advancing the university’s mission of Shaping Africa’s Intellectual Futures and to continue to create opportunities for students and staff alike to succeed. I look forward to working closely with the various university communities, alumni and diverse stakeholders to bring this vision to life."

"I examined the personal names occurring on the Knossos. As tablets as evidence for the social structure of Crete in the Late Minoan II period."

"I try not to have a victim mentality … there’s racism, there’s the question of women, etc. I always say to myself, “Okay, what can I do to change the status quo?” It’s about making things better."