| ID | 138614 |
| Title Proper | South Africa |
| Other Title Information | broken promises |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Sickle, Alexa Van |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | At the tail end of an overland trip from Cairo to Cape Town in 2002, travel writer and novelist Paul Theroux – then more than 60 years old and writing his thirty-eighth book – had lunch with Professor Lee Berger, an archaeologist and paleoanthropologist at the University of the Witwatersrand, in a Johannesburg mall. Recalling their conversation in his book Dark Star Safari, Theroux recounts how the professor challenged him to make a threatening face. Theroux attempted his best grimace, but his failure to bare his teeth was, for Berger, a sign that humans were ‘undoubtedly a peaceful species’. According to him, the ‘paedo-morphic face’ (or child-like, rather than aggressive, features) that humans had developed showed that they
were largely defined by ‘peacefulness and cooperation’ rather than conflict. ‘Warfare is symbolic,’ he concluded. |
| `In' analytical Note | Survival : the IISS Quarterly Vol. 56, No.6; Dec/Jan 2014-15: p.167-176 |
| Journal Source | Surviva Vol: 56 No 6 |
| Key Words | South Africa ; ANC ; Food Security ; Foreign Policy ; Broken Promises ; Economic Freedom Fighters ; EFF |