Editorial: Volume 3 (2018): Special Issue

Welcome to Volume 3 of the ATLAANZ Journal (2018), a four-part special issue entitled “Tertiary Learning Advisors on Aotearoa/New Zealand: Identity and Opportunity”, that presents a comprehensive research project undertaken by Caitriona Cameron (HoD: Academic and Career Skills, Library Teaching and Learning at Lincoln University) and founding member, former President (2009-2010) and Executive Committee member of the Association of Tertiary Learning Advisors Aotearoa/New Zealand. ATLAANZ Journal invites submissions on topics relevant to the tertiary learning advisor community (such as higher education, learning partnerships, responding to environmental changes, innovative practice, and working with students (including International, postgraduates, Māori, Pasifika and Rainbow). We provide mentoring and support for new authors, and are also keen to hear from colleagues interested in acting as peer-reviewers. Please send expressions of interest to [email protected].

The causes and nature of the June 2016 protests in the city of Tshwane: A practical theological reflection

South Africa has recently experienced a series of public protests. The common element is that violence is becoming evident in these protests. This article uses the June 2016 protests in the city of Tshwane as an example to address the root causes of such protests. On 20 June 2016, the African National Congress (ANC) announced that the city of Tshwane mayoral candidate for the 3 August 2016 municipal elections in South Africa is the former public works minister and ANC National Executive Committee member, Thoko Didiza. Consequently, public protests in the city of Tshwane emerged immediately after this announcement. These public protests were very violent, such as protesters killed one another, burned buses, looted shops and barricaded roads. The root causes of these violent protests are identified as factionalism, tribalism, sexism, economic exclusion and patronage politics. The purpose of this article is a practical theological reflection on the root causes of June 2016 protests in the city of Tshwane. The main aim of this article is a practical theological solution to the general problem of violent protests.

Cry for justice

The author has been detained, uncharged and untried, since June 1982 Kilio cha Haki (‘Cry for Justice’) is a Kiswahili play set in Kenya during the colonial period. It is about the struggle between Kenyan workers on Mr Delamon's farm and the white settlers occupying their country. In this struggle, the workers are led by a brave woman, Lanina, who exposes the exploitation and injustice prevailing in the society. She succeeds in making the workers stand up and fight for their rights. In the ensuing struggle on the farm, three of Mr Delamon's assistants are killed. The entire workers' leadership is arrested and charged with murder. This was the beginning of the larger struggle for independence of the whole country. Al-Amin Mazrui is a highly-respected Kiswahili writer and scholar, an executive committee member of the Kenyan Writers Association, and was a lecturer in linguistics at Kenyatta University College until his arrest in June 1982 and subsequent detention without trial: (see Index on Censorship 2/1983, back cover). Two weeks before his arrest, Kilio cha Haki was performed at the University of Nairobi. This first English translation of an extract from Kilio cha Haki has been prepared by the Kiswahili scholar and poet, Abdilatif Abdalla.