This article is part of a larger study exploring global patterns of security education, in order to enhance the collaborative pursuit of security by the majority of the world’s countries. We draw on interviews at multinational training events, site visits and open sourc...

Hierdie artikel handel oor die welstand van Afrikaans as 'n grondwetmatige taal die vraag synde of die groter kontoere sowel as die fynere nuanses van grondwetmatige demokrasie, soos wat dit die afgelope agtien jaar in Suid-Afrika posgevat het, met goeie (grondwetlike) ...

Inspired by the vision of care in Vincent van Gogh’s depiction of the parable of the Good Samaritan, this article offers a paradigm for inhabiting compassion. Compassion is understood in this article as a moral emotion that is also a pathocentric virtue. This definition...

The chiastic arrangement of 2 Sam 21-24 signifies that it is not just a collection of miscellaneous material supplementing the Samuel corpus. Rather it is intentionally arranged so as to function as a theological reflection on Israel’s kingship. This paper shows that th...

Civil and military command in nineteenth-century southern Africa In the hey-day of the British Empire the respective spheres of authority of the civil and military powers were not necessarily unequivocally defined, leading on occasion to disputes which threatened the e...

In the late Victorian British Empire, the spheres of authority of the civil and military powers were not unequivocally defined, and could lead to wrangles that threatened the efficient conduct of military operations. Three such disputes occurred in southern Africa betwe...

Using different categories of social psychology on body decoration and dress, this article examines the author’s course of shifting political, moral, religious and eschatological values as reflected in the clothing and ornamentation motifs deployed in the narrative of t...

Book review : The historical Jesus and the final judgment sayings in Q / Brian H. Gregg. Publisher : Mohr Siebeck, Tubingen, 2006, pp. xiv, 346.

Since the 1980s there has been a debate among New Testament scholars about the meaning of the Greek word “kephalē” (“head”) in the Pauline epistles. Some scholars defend the traditional view that it means “leader”, while others argue that it should be understood to mean...