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Unisa Press

Biannual Journal of the Unisa Center for Latin American studies

UNISA CENTRE FOR LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES

VOLUME 13 NO 2 1997

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Editorial

RESEARCH ARTICLES

INTERVIEWS

  • Bringing space down to earth: an interview with cartographic engineer José Jorge de Seixas - Zélia Roelofse-Campbell

NEWS AND INFORMATION

  • Education for all: a dream of the Cuban revolution come true - Buenaventura Reyes

IDB NEWS

  • Microenterprise comes of age - Roger Hamilton
  • The changing shape of the population challenge - Paul Constance
  • Economic perceptions versus reality - Samuel Silva

SAPA REPORTS

  • Ecologists give green light to plan to remodel Iguazu Falls - Ian Phillips
  • Yanomami Indians jumping from Stone Age to twenty-first century - Bart Jones
  • Argentine director thanks Evita for his trousers - Stephen Brown

UCLAS REPORTS

  • Latin America prominent at South African Navy's 75th anniversary celebrations - Keith Campbell
  • Renowned Chilean writer Ariel Dorfman speaks at the Centre - Cathy Maree

UCLAS NEWS IN BRIEF

  • Presentation on Mexico City as a sustainable ecosystem at the Centre (RDP Series)
  • Head of the Centre speaks on poverty alleviation in Peru at Durban-Westville
  • Lecture on Carlos Menem's Governance at the Centre
  • Presentation on Peruvian Amazon Shamans at the Centre
  • Renowned American anthropologist gives presentation on the Kuna of Panama at Unisa
  • Seminar on `Uruguay - Gateway to Mercosur'
  • African Latin American Institute: Secretary General for Latin America visits South Africa
  • Hispanic-African Encounters at University of Natal
  • Rosal a de Castro Prizes
  • Brazilian scholar from the Lincoln Institute at Unisa and the Centre
  • President of International Society for Music Education at Unisa and the Centre

BOOK REVIEWS

  • Comparing Brazil and South Africa edited by Steven Friedman and Riaan de Villiers; South Africa and Brazil: risks and opportunities in the turmoil of globalisation, edited by Samuel Pinheiro Guimar es - Roger Gravil

EDITORIAL

Since the visit of President Fernando Henrique Cardoso at the end of 1996, Brazil and South Africa have consolidated their relations as the two leading powers of their respective regions. Part of this process has been the development of academic interest. This is reflected in this issue of Unisa Latin American Report, in which some pertinent aspects of the Brazilian experience are highlighted.

With South Africa focused on the hearings of the Truth Commission, investigating the crimes and follies of the country's recent history, the first research article points to the Brazilian approach to amnesty after the end of the dictatorship, and compares it with the South African approach.

The tenuous path of democracy in unequal developing societies is juxtaposed against the need to have a firmly established and sovereign legal structure. In the second article this issue is debated with reference to Brazil and South Africa.

The two countries' foreign policies are analysed and compared in the third research article in the light of co-operation in the South Atlantic, for mutual benefit.

This year is the centenary of the Canudos Massacre and the fourth research article focuses on the reinterpreting of history and the relevance of the event for our time.

Other articles and features in this issue deal with the use of space technology to promote development in poor areas, with the Cuban education experience, and other relevant issues, such as population news and environmental matters.

We hope you find this edition both informative and stimulating.

Editor

Zélia Roelofse-Campbell