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Supplementary agreement between Highland Superspar and Food and Allied Workers Union

- Highland Superspar, Food and Allied Workers Union

Authors: Highland Superspar , Food and Allied Workers Union
Date: 2014-03-26
Subjects: Highland Superspar , Food and Allied Workers Union (FAWU) , Collective bargaining -- South Africa , Wages -- South Africa
Language: English
Type: collective labor agreements , text
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/95723 , vital:31191 , Labour Research Service (LRS)
Description: Supplementary agreement between Highland Superspar and Food and Allied Workers Union.
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Date Issued: 2014-03-26

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Wage settlement agreement entered into between Bronkhorstspruit Golf Club and Food and Allied Workers Union (FAWU)

- Bronkhorstspruit Golf Club, Food and Allied Workers Union

Authors: Bronkhorstspruit Golf Club , Food and Allied Workers Union
Date: 2014-03-24
Subjects: Bronkhorstspruit Golf Club , Food and Allied Workers Union (FAWU) , Collective bargaining -- South Africa , Wages -- South Africa
Language: English
Type: collective labor agreements , text
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/95820 , vital:31202 , Labour Research Service (LRS)
Description: Wage settlement agreement entered into between Bronkhorstspruit Golf Club and Food and Allied Workers Union (FAWU).
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Date Issued: 2014-03-24

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Wage agreement (2014-2015) between JT International Manufacturing South Africa Proprietary Limited and the Food and Allies Workers Union

- JT International Manufacturing South Africa Proprietary Limited, Food and Allied Workers Union

Authors: JT International Manufacturing South Africa Proprietary Limited , Food and Allied Workers Union
Date: 2014-03-20
Subjects: JT International Manufacturing South Africa Proprietary Limited Wages -- South Africa , Food and Allied Workers Union (FAWU) , Collective bargaining -- South Africa
Language: English
Type: collective labor agreements , text
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/94276 , vital:31025 , Labour Research Service (LRS)
Description: Wage Agreement (2014-2015) between JT International Manufacturing South Africa Proprietary Limited and the Food and Allied Works Union on the 17th of July 2012.
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Date Issued: 2014-03-20

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Agreement entered into between SIS Farming (Pty) LTD (SIS) and Food and Allied Workers Union (FAWU)

- SIS Farming (Pty) LTD, Food and Allied Workers Union

Authors: SIS Farming (Pty) LTD , Food and Allied Workers Union
Date: 2014-03-13
Subjects: SIS Farming (Pty) LTD , Food and Allied Workers Union (FAWU) , Collective bargaining -- South Africa , Wages -- South Africa
Language: English
Type: collective labor agreements , text
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/95810 , vital:31201 , Labour Research Service (LRS)
Description: Agreement entered into between SIS Farming (Pty) LTD (SIS) and Food and Allied Workers Union (FAWU).
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Date Issued: 2014-03-13

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Settlement wage agreement entered into between two parties, being: Quantam Foods (Pty) LTD t/a Nulaid, Songloed Farm and Food and Allied Workers Union (FAWU)

- Quantam Foods (Pty) LTD, Nulaid, Songloed Farm, Food and Allied Workers Union

Authors: Quantam Foods (Pty) LTD , Nulaid, Songloed Farm , Food and Allied Workers Union
Date: 2014-03-12
Subjects: Quantam Foods (Pty) LTD , Nulaid, Songloed Farm , Food and Allied Workers Union (FAWU) , Collective bargaining -- South Africa , Wages -- South Africa
Language: English
Type: collective labor agreements , text
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/95800 , vital:31200 , Labour Research Service (LRS)
Description: Settlement wage agreement entered into between two parties, being: Quantam Foods (Pty) LTD t/a Nulaid, Songloed Farm and Food and Allied Workers Union (FAWU).
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Date Issued: 2014-03-12

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2014/2015 Salary agreement between Chamdor Meat Packers (Pty) Ltd andthe Food and Allied Workers Union

- Chamdor Meat Packers (Pty) Ltd, Food and Allied Workers Union

Authors: Chamdor Meat Packers (Pty) Ltd , Food and Allied Workers Union
Date: 2014-03-10
Subjects: Chamdor Meat Packers (Pty) Ltd , Wages -- South Africa , Food and Allied Workers Union (FAWU) , Collective bargaining -- South Africa
Language: English
Type: collective labor agreements , text
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/94656 , vital:31065 , Labour Research Service (LRS)
Description: 2014/2015 Salary agreement between Chamdor Meat Packers (Pty) Ltd andthe Food and Allied Workers Union.
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Date Issued: 2014-03-10

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Memorandum of agreement 2014 between CCS Logistics - City Deep and Food and Allied Workers Union

- CCS Logistics - City Deep, Food and Allied Workers Union

Authors: CCS Logistics - City Deep , Food and Allied Workers Union
Date: 2014-03-05
Subjects: CCS Logistics - City Deep , Wages -- South Africa , Food and Allied Workers Union (FAWU) , Collective bargaining -- South Africa
Language: English
Type: collective labor agreements , text
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/94552 , vital:31055 , Labour Research Service (LRS)
Description: Memorandum of agreement 2014 between CCS Logistics - City Deep and Food and Allied Workers Union.
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Date Issued: 2014-03-05

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"I felt that I deserved it" : an Investigation into HIV-related PTSD, traumatic life events, and the personal experiences of living with HIV : a mixed-method study

- Boulind, Melissa Jane

Authors: Boulind, Melissa Jane
Date: 2014
Subjects: Post-traumatic stress disorder -- Psychological aspects -- Research -- South Africa -- Kwazulu HIV infections -- Psychological aspects -- Research -- South Africa -- Kwazulu HIV-positive persons -- South Africa -- Kwazulu -- Interviews Psychic trauma -- Research Stress (Psychology) -- Research
Language: English
Type: Thesis , Doctoral , PhD
Identifier: vital:3211 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1012172
Description: There appears to be a growing body of literature focusing on PTSD and HIV-related PTSD (the diagnosis of HIV being the significant traumatic event) amongst HIV-positive samples, but only a few African studies that attempt to estimate the prevalence of PTSD amongst HIV-positive people, and even fewer that attempt to estimate the prevalence of HIV-related PTSD. The systemic review presented in this study is currently fully inclusive and is the most up-to-date available. Estimates of the prevalence of PTSD and HIV-related PTSD in South Africa range from 0.7 to 54.1% and, 4.2 to 40% respectively. The current cross-sectional study made use of a mixed-method approach to investigate traumatic life events, PTSD and HIV-related PTSD within a primary health-care centre in KwaZulu-Natal. The quantitative sample consisted of 159 adults (18-50 years) who were compliant on ARV medication. Using the CIDI-PTSD module, the adapted CIDI-PTSD module for HIV, and IES-R, findings indicated that 62% had reported some kind of traumatic event in their lifetime, with 29.6% of participants meeting the criteria for lifetime PTSD, and 40.9% meeting the criteria for lifetime HIV-related PTSD. Altogether, 57.9% of individuals met the criteria for some form of PTSD (either regular PTSD or HIV-related PTSD), and 12.6% met the criteria for both PTSD and HIV-related PTSD. Of the different categories of traumatic events, interpersonal violence has the highest rate of PTSD, followed by a diagnosis of and living with HIV, and then disaster. Furthermore, the IES-R was compared for its usefulness as a screening measure for PTSD against both the CIDI, but results suggest that it is an inferior screening measure to the PDS. The qualitative study consisted of six participants who were examined using IPA methodology informed by the Ehlers and Clark (2000) Model of trauma. Their experiences revealed experiences of stigma, a number of negative appraisals, negative emotions and coping behaviours. Some of the latter might serve as compensatory mechanisms to avoid negative judgements. Hypervigilance seems to be a feature of ARV-compliance that might confer added vulnerability to PTSD and other anxiety disorders.
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Date Issued: 2014

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"To learn how to speak": a study of Jeremy Cronin's poetry

- Pinnock, William

Authors: Pinnock, William
Date: 2014
Subjects: Poets, South African , Historical materialism
Language: English
Type: Thesis , Masters , MA
Identifier: vital:8484 , http://hdl.handle.net/10948/d1021038
Description: In the chapters that follow, the porous boundary between the public and the private in Jeremy Cronin’s poetry is investigated in his three collections, Inside (1983), Even the Dead: Poems, Parables and a Jeremiad (1996) and More Than a Casual Contact (2006). I argue two particular Marxist theorists are central to reading Cronin’s poetry: Bertolt Brecht, and his notion of the Verfremdungseffekt, and Walter Benjamin and his work on historical materialism, primarily the essay On the Concept of History / Theses on the Philosophy of History (1940). Both theorists focus on the work of art in a historically contextualized manner, which extends the challenge to the boundary between the public and the private. Their work is underpinned by the desire to draw out hidden narratives occluded under the grand narratives of history and capitalist ideas of progress. I argue that these are the major preoccupations in Cronin’s oeuvre as well. As such Cronin’s poetry may be seen to write against a perspective that proposes a linear conceptualisation of history. The poetry therefore challenges the notion that art speaks of ‘universal truths.’ Such ideas of History and Truth, if viewed uncritically, allow for a tendency to conceive of the past as unchanging, which subconsciously promotes the idea that social and political realities are merely logical evolutionary steps. I argue that Cronin’s poetry is thus purposefully interruptive in the way that it confronts the damaging consequences of the linear conceptualisation of history and the universal truth it promotes. His work attempts to find new ways of connection and expression through learning from South Africa’s violent past. The significance of understanding each other and the historical environment as opposed to imposing perspectives that underwrite the symbolic order requires the transformation rather than the simple transferral of power, and is a central focus throughout Cronin’s oeuvre. This position suggests that while the struggle for political freedom may be over, the necessity to rethink how South Africans relate to each other is only beginning. Chapter One will focus on positioning Cronin, the poet and public figure, in South African literature and literary criticism. In this regard, two general trends have operated as critical paradigms in the study of South African poetry, namely Formalism (or ‘prac crit’) and a Marxist inflected materialism, which have in many ways perpetuated the division between the private and the public. This has resulted in poetry being read with an exclusive focus on either one of these two aspects, overlooking the possibilities of dialogue that may take place between them. Cronin’s perspective on these polarised responses will be discussed, which will illustrate the similarity of his position to Ndebele’s notion of the ‘ordinary’ which suggests a way beyond these binaries. This will lead to a discussion of how South African poets responded to the transition phase, suggesting that the elements of the polarisation still remained. Considering the major influences and paradigms when reading Cronin’s oeuvre provides a foundation for the following three chapters. These include Cronin’s use of Romanticism, Bertolt Brecht and the V-Effekt and Walter Benjamin’s perspectives on historical materialism. In addition to these three theoretical paradigms, the relevance of Pablo Neruda’s poetry to Cronin’s work is also foregrounded. In Chapter Two, the focus will be on Cronin’s first collection of poetry, Inside, concentrating on Cronin’s use of language as a way of constructing poetry in the sparseness of the prison experience. This will show an abiding preoccupation of learning to speak in a language that considers the material context out of which it emerges. In this regard, the poems “Poem-Shrike” “Prologue” and “Cave-site” are analysed. In addition, one of the central poems in Cronin’s oeuvre, “To learn how to speak […],” will be examined in order to illustrate how the poet extends this project on a meta-poetic level, asking for South African poets to ‘learn how to speak’ in the voices of South African experience and histories. I will show how this is linked to Cronin’s “Walking on Air” which illustrates how the V-Effeckt recovers the small private histories through re-telling the life story of James Matthews, a fellow prisoner incarcerated for his anti-apartheid activism, revealing how this story is intimately connected to the public sphere. In Chapter Three, Cronin’s second collection: Even the Dead: Poems, Parables and a Jeremiad will be examined. In the poem “Three Reasons for a Mixed, Umrabulo, Round-the-Corner Poetry” Cronin resists inherited Western poetic conventions by incorporating and subverting versions of the Romantic aesthetic, arguing for poetry to be immersed in South African multi-lingual and multi-cultural experiences. “Even the Dead” reveals how Cronin uses Walter Benjamin’s perspectives on historical materialism to confront amnesia. In terms of the themes established in “To learn how to speak […]”, the poem “Moorage” demonstrates how the public and private can never be separated in Cronin’s work. The final section of this chapter will examine how Cronin responds to Pablo Neruda’s poems “I am explaining a few things” and “The Education of a Chieftain,” and how these poems challenge narratives that privilege the ‘great leader’ instead of the so-called smaller individuals’ stories. Chapter Four examines selections from Cronin’s third collection, focusing on Cronin’s use of the automobile, charting an ambiguous trajectory through the ‘new’ South Africa. The examination of the poems “Where to begin?”, “Switchback” and “End of the century - which is why wipers,” all attempt to include individuals left on the margins of the narrative of global freeways and neo-liberal capitalist progress. The poems present an interrogation of how ‘vision’ is constructed. This will show that the poetry responds to the experiences of the marginalised under these grand narratives in a primarily fragmentary and interruptive manner. This in effect constitutes the culmination of Cronin’s poetic journey and the search for new ways of envisaging South Africa’s future and finding a new language with which to speak it.
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Date Issued: 2014

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