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In:The Social Uses of Literacy: Theory and Practice in Contemporary South Africa
Edited by Mastin Prinsloo and Mignonne Breier
[Studies in Written Language and Literacy 4] 1996
► pp. vii–viii

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Published online: 8 October 1996

https://doi.org/10.1075/swll.4.toc

Table of contents

Preface1

Introduction11

Mastin Prinsloo

Section 1: Literacies at work31

1. Literacy, voter education and constructions of citizenship in the Western Cape during the firstdemocratic national elections in South Africa33

Mastin Prinsloo

2. Literacy, knowledge, gender and power in the workplace on three farms in the Western Cape49

3. Literacy and communication in a Cape factory65

Mignonne Breier

4. Communicative practices of the service staff of a school85

Section 2: Mediating literacies103

5. Literacy mediation and social identity in Newton, Easter Cape105

6. Cultural brokers and bricoleurs of modern and traditional literacies: Land struggles inNamaqualand’s Coloured reserves123

7. Literacy learning and local literacy practice in Bellville South141

8. ‘We can all sing, but we can’t all talk’: Literacy brokers and tsotsi gangstersin a Cape Town shantytown157

Section 3: Contextualising literacies: policy lessons173

9. Literacy, migrancy and disrupted domesticity: Khayelitshan ways of knowing177

10. “We are waiting/ this is our home’: Literacy and the search for ressources in the ruralEastern Cape197

11. Taking literacy for a ride — reading and writing in the taxi industry213

Mignonne Breier

12. Literacy practices in an informal settlement in the Cape Peninsula235

Afterword257

References265

Index275