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In South Africa, sports policy is a direct reflection of a political system based on the systematic exclusion of nonwhites from full membership in all of that society's institutions -- including sports. This system, designated as apartheid, exists in no other nations, even those with high levels of political oppression. Despite severe sanctions from the international sports community, including expulsion from the Olympics & the withdrawal of competition, apartheid continues relatively unabated in South African society. South African sports officials assert that their system is changing & that there are no color barriers. This may be true on paper or in public forums, but it is not true in practice. Both in & outside South Africa, protesting groups have not produced significant results. South Africa's ideological & cultural traditions reinforce secondary citizen status for nonwhites. Changing these attitudes will take considerably more action than has been demonstrated thus far. HA.

The Dialectical Tradition in South Africa by Andrew Nash

The performative act of "coming out" authenticates a homosexual identity and in the South African context the coming out narrative has gained such momentum that it is now regarded as an imperative for closeted homosexuals by the Lesbian and Gay Equality Project (LGEP). However, coming out has been critiqued by queer theorists who argue that it is problematic because it forces a person into an already established identity category, strengthens the regulation of sexual categories and is complicit in the reconstitution of these categories. In this paper, these queer critiques of coming out will be employed in order to explore the question of why a person is compelled to confess to the 'truth' about their homosexuality in South Africa. The data for this exploration is drawn from three non-fiction gay and lesbian books: "Male Homosexuality in South Africa: Identity Formation, Culture and Crises" (1992) by Gordon Isaacs and Brian McKendrick, "Tommy Boys, Lesbian Men and Ancestral Wives: Female Same-Sex Practices in Africa" (2005) by Ruth Morgan and Saskia Wieringa, and "Performing Queer: Shaping Sexualities 1994-2004 – Volume 1" (2005) edited by Mikki van Zyl and Melissa Steyn. The data was analysed using content analysis and the findings show how homosexuality is extricated from negative discourses of abnormality, promiscuity and fraudulence and reformulated into positive discourses associated with identity politics, normality and progress. In such positive discourses, a person is compelled into disclosure because it is viewed as a necessary step to combat homophobia and conservative family and social norms. This paper argues that as long as the coming out narrative is embedded in the positive discourses of progress, health and enlightenment, it will remain immune to critique of the role that it plays in strengthening heterosexuality as unitary and normative. Finally, this paper suggests that refusing to succumb to the pressure of categorisation could potentially undermine the constraints of the homosexual/heterosexual binary on which the categories of male and female are contingent.Keywords: Discourse, Queer Theory, Coming Out, Queer Linguistics, South Africa, Homosexuality

Moderator: Lyle Renecker. ; Presented at the 8th international congress for wildlife and livelihoods on private and communal lands: livestock, tourism, and spirit, that was held on September 7-12, 2014 in Estes Park, Colorado. ; Over 10,000 privately owned fenced wildlife ranches with 16 million head of game have transformed 25 million ha of marginal agricultural land with limited water into thriving operations with far greater economic output than from cattle livestock enterprises (total head only 14 million). A commercial game ranch generates an economic output of about $31/ha compared to $11/ha for livestock farming and creates better paid jobs for a skilled workforce. Meat production and processing on these ranches offers a practical route to improved food security and economic sustainability while maintaining biodiversity. In the past game ranchers had limited options with regards to the utilization of game meat but this scenario changed when a market demand emerged for organic, natural and healthier protein food. A pro-active initiative from Wildlife Ranching South Africa (WRSA), the official mouthpiece of game ranchers in South Africa produced the Game Meat Scheme that was, only after nine years finally successfully negotiated with SA government in a bid to practically guide the legal provision of safe game meat to the local market. The greatest benefit is the fact that the Scheme places the full financial benefits of game meat into the hands of the game rancher. The required registration of the facility on the farm and the rancher as the game meat examiner (meat inspection) will ensure that safe quality meat is produced and will ensure the SA Game Industry to grow from strength to strength and provide the answer to the escalating protein food shortage.

Construction Procurement Law in South Africa explains the legal regulation of construction procurement, an area that has, to date, been an unexplored part of South African law. The book deals with this regulation according to the various stages of the construction procurement process and addresses contradictory rules which give rise to regulatory challenges. Construction Procurement Law in South Africa provides the reader with an overview of the field. Where appropriate, recommendations are made in instances where the law could be amended to bring about better constitutional compliance. Issues such as the somewhat problematic definition of construction procurement, the contradictory rules in this field, the qualification of construction contracts, the evaluation of construction procurement tenders, preferential procurement in the construction industry and selected remedies are addressed.