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Item How Diversity and Inclusion May Transform South African Commercial Property Organisations at Top Management Level(University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, 2017-08) Motshegare, Reabetswe Regina; Levy, DeborahThe purpose of this report is to outline contemporary transformation frameworks that emphasise diversity and inclusion and how the latter may likely transform Growthpoint Properties South Africa (Growthpoint S.A). The main focus of the consultancy report is to compare and contrast traditional transformation methodologies and contemporary diversity and inclusion methodologies as strategies to assist Growthpoint S.A transform its senior and executive management. The propositions are that; an effective transformation strategy for Growthpoint S.A is one that focuses on identification; inclusion; attraction; diversification and retention of key talent at senior levels. Furthermore, that once diversity and inclusion interventions are implemented, there will be transformation at senior and executive levels. Out of 15 executives in the management team, six representatives were interviewed. The limitations highlight that the majority of participants are South African and may have certain biased perceptions about the topic as opposed to the rest of the participants, who are foreign nationals. The methodology focuses on a thematic analysis and four themes namely: leadership; corporate culture; strategies and communication are identified. Following in-depth discussions, six recommendations are provided. These include 360-degree feedback; diversity and inclusion workshops; introduction of a diversity and inclusion forum; KPI’s that measure diversity and inclusion targets; workplace enhancement programmes that focus on diverse candidates and lastly, robust succession plans. The role of the researcher as a professional Human Resource Business Partner ensured that any work dealt with is approached ethically, and the researcher’s ability to do this ensured quality, reliability, validity and effectiveness of the research.Item Bypassing the union: An Employer's Right to Negotiate Directly with Striking Employees(University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, 2016-08) Nkosi, Thulani Gift; Mahomed, ShahedaSouth African labour law influenced by the Constitution and notions of equity and fairness has undergone a total change and will, without doubt, continue to change to meet the ever changing nature of employment it seeks to regulate. It is after all in the nature of all laws to change with the society they seek to regulate and our labour law is no exception. Recently, focus has shifted to the institution of collective bargaining and the questions posed are whether our labour laws as they currently stand are capable of adequately regulating the process of collective bargaining in such a way that the main objective of collective bargaining which is to bring about industrial peace is promoted and maintained at all times. These questions are posed on the back of the unprecedented spates of prolonged violent strikes that have resulted in the destruction of property and loss of life as well as unimaginable financial losses not only for the employers affected but also for the economy as a whole. These unprecedented prolonged violent strikes have caused employers to engage in bargaining conduct that could erode the participation of trade unions from the collective bargaining process which bargaining conduct takes the form of employers bypassing trade unions and negotiating with striking employees directly. But do employers have a right to bypass trade unions in this way? This paper investigates this question against the background of the case of Amcu v Lonmin where the Labour Court on application by a trade union had to decide whether to grant an urgent interdict restraining employers from negotiating directly with striking employees. The employers considering themselves to be acting within their rights opposed the application. The Labour Court unfortunately dismissed the application on technical grounds relating to the lack of urgency without considering or deciding this question. This paper accordingly picks up the debate; considers the historical evolution of collective bargaining in our labour law including the voluntarist argument that is said to be embodied by the Labour Relations Act (LRA), and concludes that when all things considered employers in fact do not have a right to bypass trade unions. If employers had this right certain provisions of the LRA that guarantee trade union participation would be rendered nugatory and the whole collective bargaining process would become unworkable. The LRA envisions that once parties have voluntarily embarked on collective bargaining they bargain in good faith and do not bypass each other.Item Design and development of a bioactive-loaded polymer-engineered neural device for potential application in reducing neurological deficits after spinal cord injuries and neuro-regeneration(University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, 2017) Kumar, Pradeep; Choonara, Yahya Essop; Modi, Girish; Naidoo, Dinesh; Pillay, VinessTraumatic Spinal Cord Injuries (SCI), due to their devastating nature, present several interventional challenges (extensive inflammation, axonal tethering, scar formation, neuronal degeneration and functional loss) that need to be addressed before even a slight neuronal recovery can be achieved. Recent post-TSCI investigational approaches include support strategies capable of providing scaffold architecture to allow axonal growth and conformal repair. This research provided detailed insight towards the development and fabrication of six specialized Polymer-Engineered Neural Devices (PENDs): 1) poly(lactic-co-glycolic acid)-gliadin (PLGA-GLDN) nanofibrous mats, 2) polyacrylamidated chitosan (PAAm-g-HT) scaffold, 3) functionalized chitosan methoxypolyethylene glycol (CHT-mPEG) cryosponges, 4) polyacrylonitrile-elastin-collagen (PANi-EC) neurosponge, 5) methylcellulose-alginate-polyethylene glycol (MAP) thermogel, and 6) chitosan-luronic F127-β glycerophosphate (CHT-PF127-βGP) composite thermogel for potential restriction, repair, regeneration, restoration and reorganization post-SCI. The latest trends in biomaterials-based SCI intervention were reviewed, discussed and analyzed in detail throughout the thesis. The research also involved an in silico analytico mathematical interpretation of multi(biomed)material assemblies wherein quantification of energy surfaces and molecular attributes via atomistic, dynamic, and docking simulations was carried out. The in silico experimentation additionally confirmed the potential of curcumin as a bioactive of choice for SCI intervention. Curcumin and dexamethasone were incorporated into the compact scaffolds and the bioactive release was determined over a period extending up to 60 days. The PLGA-GLDN nanofibrous mats demonstrated the formation of a compatible blend among the component polymers at equal weight ratios (PG55) as confirmed by quantitative physicochemical characterizations. Image processing analysis (DiameterJ plug-in of ImageJ) was performed on the SEM images of nanofibers to quantify the size, porosity, and orientation of the samples. Nanofibers within the size range of 10nm and 250nm were obtained in case of compatible blend and the nano stack was used for in vivo implantation post-SCI. Polyacrylamidated chitosan (PAAm-g-CHT) was synthesized via a unique persulfate-mediated polymer slicing and complexation as determined by static lattice atomistic simulations. The graft copolymer so obtained was fabricated into an anisotropic neurodurable scaffold. The CHT/mPEG cryosponges showed unique morphological features such as fringe thread-like structures (CHT alone); hemispherical, pebble-like structures (CHT-mPEG); curved quartz crystal-like or crystal-flower-like structures (CHT-mPEG-CHO); and grouped, congealed, steep-sided canyon-like structures (CHT-mPEG COOH). A novel image processing protocol involving DiameterJ and ND plugins of ImageJ software was employed for analyses of the SEM micrographs in terms of % porosity, pore wall thickness and % xiiehaviorxii of the porous scaffolds. The PANi-EC interpenetrating polymer network neurosponges were synthesized employing free radical polymerization under acidic conditions wherein first-in-the-world spinomimetic scaffolds were obtained. The unique feature of the PANi-EC neurosponge was the formation of a fibrous neurotunnel architecture mimicking the native spinal cord. The physicochemical characterization revealed that the secondary structure of the peptide molecules (elastin and collagen) rearranged in the presence of PANi to their native extracellular matrix (ECM) form confirming the self-assembling nature of the polymer-peptide architecture. Furthermore, the PANi-EC neurosponge provided a perfect balance of matrix resilience and matrix hardness similar to the native collagen-elastin complex in vivo. Two very interesting tri-component thermogels were reported here viz. a simple blend thermogel comprising methylcellulose, sodium alginate and poly(ethylene glycol) and a complex thermogel incorporating chitosan, Pluronic F127 and β-glycerophosphate. Both the thermogels solidified at physiological temperature confirming their applicability in vivo. The outstanding feature of MAP thermogels was the formation of hydrogen bonded O-H…C=O which only formed in the tripolymeric blend while the bipolymeric blends showing no such interaction. We proposed that the MAP thermogel self-assembled into a repeating network structure represented by “PEG400-ALG-hydrophillicMChydrophobic}-{hydrophobicMC-hydrophilic}-ALG-PEG400” and the physical “compression” might have led to the formation of hydrogen bonded O-H…C=O among MC/alginate or PEG/alginate in the presence of PEG or MC, respectively. In case of the complex CHT/PF127/βGP thermogel, a unique triphasic gel-sol-gel transition xiiehavior was observed with the thermogel forming a gel-phase at lower temperatures (T<20°C), a sol-phase at intermediate temperatures (20°C35°C). The MTT proliferation studies indicated that all polymer engineered neural devices (PANi-alone matrix) were capable of efficiently supporting the growth of PC12 cells compared to the control over a period of 72 hours. The fundamental objective of this thesis was to test the applicability and capability of various biomaterial composites towards the repair and regeneration of neuronal tissue after traumatic spinal cord injury. Although drug-loaded scaffolds were also developed, only drug-free scaffolds (PLGA-Gliadin 5:5 electrospun nanofibers; PANi-Elastin-Collagen neurosponge; and Chitosan/Pluronic F127/β-glycerophosphate thermogel) were tested in vivo for the proof-of-concept. The 21-point scale BBB locomotor rating analysis demonstrated that PEND I (14), PEND II (19) and PEND III (18) provided significant motor recovery as compared to the lesion-control (5) group 28 days post-SCI and –implantation. The immunohistochemistry confirmed that reparative changes were accompanied by marked upregulation of iNOS, a notable influx of ED1-positive chronic inflammatory cells, the appearance of multinucleate cells characteristic of presumptive regenerative neuroblasts and near-complete loss of GFAP and NF-200 protein/structural integrity. Almost complete functional and neurostructural recovery was observed with post-SCI implantation of PEND II and III. In conclusion, the composite scaffolds tested in this research demonstrated immense potential in improving the neurological, neurochemical, and behavioral outcome after implantation post-SCI.Item Financial inclusion in South Africa: An analysis of the financial sector regulatory framework and proposals for reform(2018-09) Duma, Amanda; Kawadza, HerbertAbstract Not Available.Item Landscape, Rock Art Recording, Narrative: A Biography of The Harald Pager Archive(University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, 2019) Moodley, Lemishka; Wintjes, JustineIn the early days of the discipline of archaeology, the archaeologist Sir Charles Thomas Newton stated, in a lecture at Oxford University in June 1880, that “the subject-matter of Archaeology is threefold – the Oral, the Written and the Monumental” (Newton 1880, p.3–7). By ‘oral’, he meant expressions of spoken language as a form of patterned communication passed down from the past, which he considered to be as significant as written texts and traces of the built environment. Newton’s statement also resonates with ongoing attempts to make sense of the fragmentary remains of the past by including living sources with links to those remains, often referred to as ‘oral traditions’. I argue that the domain of ‘oral’ could be extended in the contemporary context to refer to the realm of the ‘spoken word’. The spoken word is mobilised in the telling of personal histories of researchers engaged in making sense of the past, consistent with a move towards the study of the production of archaeological knowledge, and the broader context of the history of science. The past, and the investigation of that past, can be easily lost or erased with time, unless it is documented in some form. For as long as I can remember, I’ve had a keen interest in knowing about the world that preceded me. So naturally, movies like Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), The Mummy (1999), Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001), 10 000 BC (2008), The Prince of Egypt (1998), Brother Bear (2003) and many others, fascinated and triggered my overactive imagination. These points of inspiration even prompted many crazy shenanigans and adventures that took place in my back yard. Needless to say, my mother was never impressed because her garden was in constant danger of being destroyed through micro-excavations (as I had to find the treasure I buried the previous evening!). However, it was a Pixar animated film — The Croods (2013) — that recently re-ignited my interest in deeper human history. Despite its status as a relatively mainstream commercial animated film, The Croods sparked my curiosity to find ways to visit the past and bring yesterday’s stories into our lives today. After their cave collapses, the first Crood family has to undertake a journey to find a new home. The father, provider and leader of his pack, recounts multiple stories that urge and caution his children to follow the rules described on the cave wall and to not try anything “new”, or generally be curious for that matter. He sees newness as dangerous, with potentially serious repercussions like death. He prefers for them to dwell in the “safe” compounds of the cave in which they live. He develops “cautionary” narratives through visual means by drawing pictures on the cave walls using pigment and dirt he scoops off the ground. The animated film highlights the ways in which a pictorial expression in the form of rock markings could be enlivened in its original context of performance and story-telling, and, also, the ways in which history is forged through personal experience. The film also prompted me to reconsider the academic realm in which rock art is primarily situated in southern Africa, which is archaeology, and the possible perspectives that other disciplines could bring to bear on these materials, such as art history. My understanding of the reasons why rock art (and its copies) can and should also be considered and studied as an art form, ultimately stems from my own experience in art education. The rock art works made by the San people are encoded with “the history and culture of a society” that is “thousands of years old” and “a testament of the displaced ancient African culture and the San presence in the world” (Solomon 2005). By studying these traces as artworks, researchers, historians and archaeologists are reminded to look at the visual features, but also beyond the physical aspects of the work. They begin to consider the processes that contributed to its making, and the various interpretations and meanings that the work had in its context of production, as well as in its subsequent readings. An examination of the process of knowledge production not only draws attention to the development of artmaking and the manner in which different materials were used to create artworks, but also demonstrates the precarious nature of the meaning of rupestrian imagery. An example of this instability of meaning is evidenced by a body of oral histories relevant to the San context, starting with Joseph Orpen’s documentation (1874) of a mountain Bushman called Qing’s account of the meaning behind particular rock art panels. Thereafter, in 1911, Wilhelm Bleek and Lucy Lloyd produced Specimens of Bushmen Folklore, a book of 87 recorded legends, myths and other traditional stories of the |Xam Bushmen in their now-extinct language (Solomon 2005). These resources integrated the “spoken word” with Bushman ethnographic research and laid the foundation for how we read and write about the art today, and they also provide numerous different ways into the question of interpretation. I have utilised my previous first-hand experience as an intern at the Origins Centre, where Simone Opperman and myself worked under the guidance of Steven Sack and Lara Mallen. In working towards the exhibition titled, The Origins of Walter Battiss: “Another Curious Palimpsest”, we worked closely with the Rock Art Research Institute (RARI), and my interest in rock art and its archive grew immensely. Here, I learned of the Harald Pager archive, which is physically located at RARI. After speaking to my supervisor, Dr Justine Wintjes, and listening to the way in which she briefly recounted the story of Harald Pager, who was an active rock art recorder and researcher during the 1960s and 1970s, I wanted to learn more about the man who seemingly died for his craft. Wintjes mentioned that Pager recorded San rock art in the Drakensberg area along with his wife for many years. The Pagers relied heavily on their personal resources in order to keep the recording and documentation process going, and ended up incurring financial debt. Harald Pager was passionate about archaeology and sought to understand the rock paintings he discovered in his travels across the region, which also included what was then South West Africa (now Namibia). In one of the conversations held in the course of my Masters research, Neil Lee explained that Pager dwelled for months on end in a shelter in order to finish the copies of rock paintings he sought to record. Pager’s adamance and determination, and even his belief that he could change his metabolism, apparently led to ill health while recording rock art in the Brandberg in 1985. He died a short time later in Windhoek (Neil Lee 2018, pers. comm.). 7 Given the scale and meticulousness of Pager’s archive, and in light of the conversations I had about him, it seemed strange that his work and story are engaged with so seldom within academia. Nevertheless, Pager’s vast archive lives on in the storerooms of RARI, and now also in the digital world. His recordings were recently digitised during the course of the South African Rock Art Digital Archive (SARADA) project, which sought to scan and make more accessible the content related to southern African rock art at RARI and other institutional and private archives. With the rapid rate at which technology is developing and progressing, physical archives are being turned into digital databases, while also being supplemented by newly created digital materials. However, like all archives, digital archives are not ‘permanent’. They have their own kind of media-specific fragility. The digital archive also has the potential to become obsolete and demonstrates a different kind of limited lifespan. Although digital files are also not physically present in the same way that a physical copy or photograph is, and “lose” a particular kind of materiality and stability, they gain a virtual presence and potentially greater accessibility. As with the ‘original’ archive of rock art that exists in the landscape, the traditional paper archive and the digital archive represent different kinds of longevity and fragility, and have a complex relationship with each other. While being subject to changes and deteriorations of various kinds, the archive is important as a record of archaeological materials in the landscape, but is also a site where knowledge is produced, and the practice of science is conducted. Thus, I set out to devise a project that would address some of these interests and problems, to find connections between the present and the past, and to focus on ‘process’ across the rock art archive in the broad sense of the term. I also wanted my project to address absences and silences within the archive, embedded within the documents and copies as well as the rock art itself. I approached the archive as a layered domain that extends beyond the strictly ‘documentary’ archive, and adopted a ‘personal histories’ approach as a way of forging connections across that archive. I explain this working strategy in more detail in the ‘Methodology’ section below, but first I explore some of the conceptual elements that frame the project.Item Surgical aortopulmonary shunts - a thirty-seven year experience in a South African tertiary institution(University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, 2019-11) Dladla-Mukansi, Nontobeko Charity; Cilliers, Antoinette; Mammen, Vijay; Vanderdonk, KathyIntroduction: The surgical aortopulmonary shunt is a valuable palliative procedure in the management of congenital heart diseases. There is a paucity of data regarding aortopulmonary shunts in the developing world, including South Africa. Objectives: The primary objective was to describe the demographic, clinical and echocardiographic characteristics of children between ages 0 and 14 years that underwent surgical aortopulmonary shunts. The secondary objectives were to describe trends in aortopulmonary shunt designs, outcomes in terms of morbidity and mortality, progression to definitive surgery and to assess patency of shunts. Material and Methods: A retrospective clinical audit of patient files who underwent an aortopulmonary shunt between 01 January 1980 to 30 December 2016 was undertaken at Chris Hani Baragwanath Academic Hospital (CHBAH) in Soweto, Johannesburg. The study period was divided into 3 stages and for descriptive purposes as follows: 1980-1991 refers to period 1, 1992-2003 refers to period 2 and 2004-2016 refers to period 3. Results: A total of 177 aortopulmonary shunts were done over the 37-year study period. Of these 177 patients, 165 (93.2%) patient files were available. Fifty-six percent of the patients included in the study were male. The majority of patients were from the Gauteng Province (76.8%). The four most common diagnoses across the entire study period were tricuspid atresia (26.0%), pulmonary atresia with VSD (23.7%), tetralogy of Fallot (23.2%) and complex cardiac lesions (16.9%), with no particular trend in the proportion of these diagnoses presenting across this study period. There was no statistical difference between period 1 and 2 (p-value a=0,328) and between period 1 and 3 (p-value b=0,548). The total number of all surgeries done over the entire study period was 2145, of which 8.3% were aortopulmonary shunts. Period 1 had the highest percentage [35 (10.9%)] of aortopulmonary shunts compared to the total number of surgeries performed. There was a decline in the number of aortopulmonary shunts performed over the study periods 1-3. With no statistical difference across periods as shown in table 1 with p-value a and b. Of the different types of aortopulmonary shunts, most patients [157 (88.7%)] had a modified Blalock-Taussig shunt (BTS). The remainder of the shunts included 3 (1.7%) classic BTS, 12 (6.8%) central shunts and 5 (2.8%) unknown BTS. The percentage of modified BTS done increased from 80% in period 1 to 87.3% in period 2 and to 95.2% in period 3. Period 1 had the most complications (28.6%) compared to 11.4% in period 2 and 19.1% in period 3. Sepsis as a complication following surgery increased over the study period from 2.9% in period 1 to 3.8% and 7.9% in periods 2 and 3 respectively. Early mortality was 17.1%, 26.6% and 25.4% from periods 1-3 respectively. Late mortality declined from 17.0% in period 1 to 11.4% and 0% in periods 2 and 3 respectively. Only 37 (20.9%) patients were documented to have further surgery after the initial aortopulmonary shunt. Across all three study periods, no blocked shunts were documented. Conclusions: This study describes the characteristics and outcomes of aortopulmonary shunts over a 37-year period in a tertiary care resource limited low to middle income country setting. The commonest cardiac lesions for which aortopulmonary shunts are performed are tricuspid atresia, pulmonary atresia with VSD, tetralogy of Fallot and other complex cyanotic cardiac lesions. The frequency of aortopulmonary shunts compared to total surgeries has corrective surgery for these cardiac lesions. The modified BTS is the most frequently performed aortopulmonary shunt used for palliative surgery in our setting, which is a similar trend in developed countries. The morbidity and mortality in this study is higher than developed countries, with sepsis being the most common complication. Attention to infection control practises need to be emphasized peri- and post-operatively in our hospitals.Item Customer retention strategies for the prepaid mobile telecommunications sector in South Africa(University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, 2010) Flynn, Teresa; Peters, MarkThis study will propose ways in which companies can focus retention strategies in the local prepaid mobile telecommunications sector. Currently there is little academic literature on this topic, even though in-house marketing research has been done by the operators. The purpose of this research is to investigate the customer retention strategies in the prepaid mobile telecommunications sector in South Africa. This will be done by triangulation of what consumers believe is important in their retention, what the organisations deem as paramount, and what retention experts state are the motivators of retention. Data was collected using both a survey questionnaire for consumers, and through face to face interviews with marketing management at mobile telecommunications operators, as well as independent expert consultants on the topic of customer retention. The findings from this study were that the consumers want to keep the same cell phone number as it is part of their identity. The customer looks at the total offering when considering pricing, and not just certain costs, and prefers a prepaid model as spending is controlled in this manner. Both consumers and management agree that rewards and loyalty programs are seen as a value add, especially where they offer instant gratification. A reliable product is necessary for a consumer to stay with the company, as is accessibility to support and other products. Management realises that the total customer experience across all touch points is a retention enabler, with one really bad experience being enough cause for a customer to churn. The consumer survey indicated that customer service is a driver that all market players need to improve on. An organisation's brand allows a consumer to identify with the firm, and is more a pull factor than a push factor, unless it is perceived as dishonest or unethical. The only time a consumer's demographics came into play regarding customer behaviour was age making a difference was when using a cell phone to access the internet -older age brackets use it sparingly if at all. Although other value added services such as SMS and MMS are used across the board. Companies model consumer behaviour, and base it on data from previous churners to identify possible churners. Of these, only profitable churners are then recognised for retention campaigns. Retention campaigns are measured for success. The prepaid market makes up 80% of the mobile telecommunications market in South Africa, and the revenue they contribute is approximately 35% of the total. Therefore this customer base should not be neglected or ignored. Due to the demographics of emerging markets, prepaid offerings are the way of the future. The research paper finishes with several recommendations on how to enrich customer retention strategies for the prepaid mobile communication market.Item The influence of Entrepreneurial Capital on the performance of subcontracting SMMEs in Gauteng, South Africa(University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, 2019-03) Rampa, Mmatsatsi; Galawe, JabulileThis study explores the prospect of entrepreneurial capital in stimulating SMME performance. It seeks to investigate the use of non-financial capital (entrepreneurial capital) in SMMEs registered under the CIDB, in the general building sector, and its influence on SMME performance. It unpacks the two dimensions of entrepreneurial capital which are entrepreneurial commitment and entrepreneurial competence. This study is a quantitative research, based on a positivism research paradigm. The survey structured research instrument was collected using Qualtrics. The primary data, with a sample size of 377, was distributed using emails and was consolidated via Qualtrics. The data analysis and interpretation was based on descriptive analysis, correlation analysis, exploratory analysis and multiple linear regression analysis. The study was initially designed to analyse the two dimensions (entrepreneurial competence and commitment) collectively with their antecedents (opportunity, relationship, conceptual, organising and strategic competencies); and (normative, continuous and affective commitment) respectively. The survey findings could not converge into a clear multi-dimensional factor structure for each construct. Hence the analysis could only be undertaken at the dimensions level without breaking them down any further into their sub-sets. Entrepreneurial competence was the only one of the two that emerged as the statistically significant predictor of SMME performance. However, both dimensions had a positive influence with business performance, though entrepreneurial commitments’ influence was weak and not statistically significant. SMME owners/managers should continuously advance and assess their specific entrepreneurial competence in order to positively influence their business performance. Policy makers, training and support programmes should align content to specific entrepreneurial competence.Item The Case of Analytic Philosophy as ‘the Philosophy’ and Its Problem for the Decolonization of the Curriculum(University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, 2018) Ramaphala, Dorcus; Etieyibo, EdwinIn this research, I shall be examining two related issues. The first issue is about whether the presentation of analytic philosophy as the proper and only method of doing philosophy is justified. The second concerns the problems posed for the decolonization of the philosophy curriculum by this hegemonic and triumphant position of analytic philosophy as “the philosophy.” My motivation for engaging with these issues is to try and make the case for other philosophical traditions and methods, including African philosophy as legitimate and proper philosophical enterprises even when they do not share all or some of the traits and features of analytic philosophy. Success in making this case seems crucial to the project of decolonizing the philosophy curriculum.Item On The Nature and Rationality of Desire(University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, 2018) Mtshali, Khondlo; Leon, Mark