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Newsletter of the Self-Employed Womens Union - No.12

- SEWU

  • Authors: SEWU
  • Date: 1996
  • Subjects: SEWU
  • Language: English
  • Type: text
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/155012 , vital:39833
  • Description: Pat Horn, Eunice Ntshangase and Sarah Nkunkwana attended the conference of the International Labour Organisation (ILO) in Geneva, Switzerland, in June. They were participating in discussions about international guidelines for the recognition and protection of home-based workers. These international guidelines were a Convention (which is legally enforceable by countries who ratify the Convention) and a Recommendation containing a number of additional proposals which are not necessarily enforced by law. The SEWU delegation was part of a group of women from different organisations in Homenet, the international body of organisations representing home-based workers which SEWU and SEWA from India both belong to. They had to lobby as many governments as possible to vote in support of the Convention. The South African government was one of those who supported it very strongly. The employers group at the conference fought very hard to stop the Convention being adopted, but in the end it was passed by a two-thirds majority vote. It was a victory for homeworkers, who have not been widely recognised in the past. Now the challenge is to get governments to ratify the Convention.
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Newsletter of the Self-Employed Womens Union - No.15

- SEWU

  • Authors: SEWU
  • Date: 1996
  • Subjects: SEWU
  • Language: English,Xhosa,Zulu
  • Type: text
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/155002 , vital:39820
  • Description: SEWU aims to organise women who are marginalised in our society and our economy. Some of the most marginalised women are those living in informal settlements, in peri-urban areas and in hostels (especially those living in men’s hostels). Many women from these types of areas have now heard about SEWU, and have started to join. We now have branches at the following informal settlements: Etafuleni outside Inanda, Ezimangweni, Mzomusha, Bhambayi and Umlazi CC (in addition to Besters, an older branch). We have two very active branches in the peri-urban area of Engonyameni, where people have resettled after they had to move out due to violence some years ago. We also have members in the following hostels: Umlazi T Section, Kranskloof Hostel at KwaDabeka, and Dalton Hostel in central Durban (apart from Thokoza Hostel where many of our Durban street vendor members live).
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Nicknames as sex-role stereotypes

- De Klerk, Vivian A, Bosch, Agnes Barbara

  • Authors: De Klerk, Vivian A , Bosch, Agnes Barbara
  • Date: 1996
  • Language: English
  • Type: Article
  • Identifier: vital:6134 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1011586
  • Description: Nicknames are powerful indicators of attitudes towards gender categories and because of their transient and optional nature, it has been argued that they are more likely to show a closer relationship to ongoing trends in the culture and society than other more fixed parts of the language E. B. Phillips (1990) ["Nicknames and Sex Role Stereotypes," Sex Roles, Vol. 23, pp. 281-289]. This study reports on a survey of nickname usage among a group of South African adolescents from mixed socioeconomic backgrounds (approximately 25% other than white) in an attempt to explicate gender-linked trends in frequency of occurrence, usage and attitudes to such special names. It reveals that conventions regarding nickname coinage and usage are intimately connected to the gender of bearers and users, and that more males have nicknames and coin them than females; it also shows significant sex-linked differences in the linguistic sources and users of nicknames, and reveals a greater tendency for female nicknames to function as indicators of affection rather than for humorous or critical effect. It could be argued that these trends could be linked to the nurturing and nurtured role of females in society, and to the differences in social power generally between males and females.
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Nomokwe ndini ndiyakuzonda

- Nonine, Dinah, Group Composition, Dargie, Dave

Noyeye bayeza kusasa

- Hogsback festival participants, Composer not specified, Dargie, Dave

Noyeye bayeza kusasa

- Hogsback festival participants, Composer not specified, Dargie, Dave

Noyeye bayeza kusasa

- Hogsback festival participants, Composer not specified, Dargie, Dave

Ntsikana

- Hogsback festival participants, Ntsikana, Dargie, Dave

Ntsikana's Great Hymn

- Ngqoko music ensemble participants, Ntsikana, Dargie, Dave

NUMSA Bargaining proposal - Engineering industry

- NUMSA

  • Authors: NUMSA
  • Date: 1996
  • Subjects: NUMSA
  • Language: English
  • Type: text
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/154188 , vital:39618
  • Description: The NUMSA Central Committee endorsed the National Bargaining Conference's deliberations held on the 15 - 17 March and mandated the union negotiators to make reductions of the apartheid wage gap the main thrust of the negotiation as part of an integrated package. We are proposing an integrated package of changes to all aspects of the industry to be negotiated in the process of negotiations.
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Observations of glitches in PSR 0833-45 and 1641-45

- Flanagan, Claire Susan

  • Authors: Flanagan, Claire Susan
  • Date: 1996
  • Subjects: Pulsars Neutron stars
  • Language: English
  • Type: Thesis , Doctoral , PhD
  • Identifier: vital:5480 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1005266
  • Description: An eleven-year series of radio timing observations of 0833- 45 (Vela) and PSR 1641- 45 is presented. During this time, five large spin-ups ("glitches") were observed in 0833- 45 and one in 1641-45. The stellar response to these events is investigated, and the three relat ively long complete inter-glitch intervals in 0833-45 are modeled. The results are of relevance to studies of the interiors of neutron stars. The initial aim of the project - to obtain good observational coverage of large glitches in the Vela pulsar - was successfully achieved, and high quality observations of the periods between glitches were obtained as a by-product. The results of the analysis presented here provide support for the existence of both linear and non-linear coupling in the Vela pulsar, and put a limit on the former in PSR 1641- 45. The recently observed existence of a rapidly recovering component of part of a glitch in Vela was verified in the subsequent glitch, although there is now evidence to contradict the suggestion that this component involves a particular region of the star that is implicated in every glitch. Observations of a recent glitch in the same pulsar have resolved a small component of the spin-up; such a component has not been reported for any other large glitch.
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Overview and comparison of Besshi-type deposits ancient and recent

- Schoeman, Philo

  • Authors: Schoeman, Philo
  • Date: 1996
  • Subjects: Ore deposits -- Japan , Ore deposits -- Canada , Ore deposits -- Namibia , Ore deposits -- South Africa , Ore deposits
  • Language: English
  • Type: Thesis , Masters , MSc
  • Identifier: vital:4983 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1005595 , Ore deposits -- Japan , Ore deposits -- Canada , Ore deposits -- Namibia , Ore deposits -- South Africa , Ore deposits
  • Description: Besshi-type deposits range in age from early Proterozoic to early Tertiary, of which the largest number are late Proterozoic, early Palaeozoic or Mesozoic in age. No Archaean examples of Besshi-type deposits are known, probably due to insufficient availability of sialic crust for erosion and clastic marine sedimentation before the start of the Proterozoic. All Besshi-type deposits are contained within sequences of clastic sedimentary rock and intercalated basalts in a marine environment. The basalts and amphibolites are principally tholeiitic in composition. Besshi-type deposits characteristically form stratiform 1enses and sheet-like accumulations of semi-massive to massive sulphide. The main ore assemblage consists dominantly of pyrite and/or pyrrhotite with variable amounts of chalcopyrite, sphalerite and trace galena, arsenopyrite, gold and e1ectrum, barite being absent in general. The median Besshi-type deposit (n=75) contains 1.3 million tonnes (Mt) of massive sulphide with a Cu grade running at 1.43%. It is suggested that Besshi-type deposits form by both exhalative and synsedimentary replacement processes when considering geological features and comparisons with modern analogues in the Guaymas Basin, Middle Valley and Escanaba Trough. The currently forming metalliferous sediments in the Red Sea provide for a brine pool model explaining the lack of footwall feeder zones below sheet-like deposits. Where thick sulphide lenses are contained in some Besshi-type deposits, combinations of exhalative precipitation and sub-sea-floor replacement of permeable sediments and/or volcanic rocks, take place in the upper parts of submarine hydrothermal systems.
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Perceptions of affirmative action

- Scott, Judith, Amos, Trevor L, Richard Scott, W

  • Authors: Scott, Judith , Amos, Trevor L , Richard Scott, W
  • Date: 1996
  • Subjects: To be catalogued
  • Language: English
  • Type: text , article
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/270914 , vital:54491 , xlink:href="https://hdl.handle.net/10520/EJC-67e7bffd2"
  • Description: Private and public South African employers have instituted affirmative action policies meant to provide employment opportunities to Black South Africans. A body of literature suggests that because of affirmative action policies Black hopes have been raised while Whites view such policies as having a negative impact on their opportunities. However, no extant literature details an empirical investigation of these suggestions. Therefore, this study focusses on the affirmative action perceptions held by 350 South African university commerce students.
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Petrology and geochemistry of the basal gabbro unit, Uitkomst complex

- Strauss, Toby Anthony Lavery

  • Authors: Strauss, Toby Anthony Lavery
  • Date: 1996
  • Subjects: Petrology -- South Africa -- Mpumalanga -- badplaas , Geochemistry -- South Africa -- Mpumalanga , Gabbro -- South Africa -- Mpumalanga
  • Language: English
  • Type: Thesis , Masters , MSc
  • Identifier: vital:4989 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1005601 , Petrology -- South Africa -- Mpumalanga -- badplaas , Geochemistry -- South Africa -- Mpumalanga , Gabbro -- South Africa -- Mpumalanga
  • Description: The Cu/(Cu+Ni) ratios associated with the Basal Gabbro also display the vertical reverse fractionation trend, supporting the supercooled margin model. The disseminated sulphides in the lowermost units, are regarded as being the result of sulphur saturation induced by contamination from the dolomitic and quartzitic xenoliths. This is supported by isotope data which indicate the high degree of contamination in the lowermost units of the Complex. The results of this study are used to propose a model for the petrogenesis and metallogenesis of the Uitkomst Complex, whereby the Complex is closely related to the Bushveld Complex. The Basal Gabbro, as supported by its chemistry and style of mineralisation (Cu-rich), represents a supercooled margin to the lowermost units of the Uitkomst Complex, which stoped upwards into the surrounding sediments, assimilating the country rock xenoliths, and precipitating sulphides. Following this was a period in which large quantities of magma moved laterally through the system before the magma flow waned, and closed system crystallisation ensued. As the body cooled, the primarily magmatic water was superceded by the hydrothermal magmatic water released from the xenoliths, and later by geothermally driven circulating meteoric water, producing the extensive alteration. This alteration was accompanied by considerable stress and the development of fractures and shears. Finally the Complex was itself intruded by diabase sills and later dolerite dykes.
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Pharmacokinetics of cyclizine following intravenous administration to human volunteers

- Kanfer, Isadore, Walker, Roderick B

  • Authors: Kanfer, Isadore , Walker, Roderick B
  • Date: 1996
  • Subjects: To be catalogued
  • Language: English
  • Type: text , article
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/184389 , vital:44214 , xlink:href="https://doi.org/10.1016/0928-0987(96)00177-7"
  • Description: The pharmacokinetics of cyclizine, a piperazine derivative useful in the prevention and treatment of nausea and vomiting, was investigated in six healthy male volunteers following an intravenous bolus dose. The drug is extensively distributed with a mean volume of distribution of 16.50 ± 3.33 l/kg and a mean total clearance of 0.870 ± 0.105 l/h per kg. Urinary excretion data showed that less than one percent of the dose was excreted up to 36 h as unchanged drug in the urine. The extremely low mean renal clearance (0.005 ± 0.002 l/h per kg) for the parent drug comprised only a small proportion of total clearance indicating that urinary excretion of parent drug is not a major route of elimination for cyclizine. The drug appears to exhibit biexponential pharmacokinetics and has a terminal elimination half-life of approximately 13 h.
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Photochemically induced electron transfer between sulfur dioxide and tin (IV) mono-and di-phthalocyanines

- Nensala, Ngudiankama, Nzimande, Ayanda, Nyokong, Tebello

  • Authors: Nensala, Ngudiankama , Nzimande, Ayanda , Nyokong, Tebello
  • Date: 1996
  • Subjects: To be catalogued
  • Language: English
  • Type: text , article
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/293402 , vital:57082 , xlink:href="https://doi.org/10.1016/1010-6030(96)04344-4"
  • Description: Photolysis, using radiation from a tungsten lamp, of tin diphthalocyanine (Pc2Sn(IV)) in dichloromethane containing SO2 results in the one-electron oxidation of this species to [Pc(−2)Sn(IV)Pc(−1)]+. The relative quantum yields for the formation of the oxidized species were in the order of 10−3. The one-electron oxidized complex was also formed when Pc2Sn was photolysed in an acetonitrile/dichloromethane solvent mixture. Photolysis of the monomeric (L)2Sn(IV)Pc(LOH−, Cl−, Br− and F−) in pyridine and in the presence of SO2 resulted in the reduction of these species to (L)2Sn(IV)Pc(−3)]− with quantum yields in the order of 10−2.
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Physics and applications of scintillation detectors

- Brooks, Francis Dey

  • Authors: Brooks, Francis Dey
  • Date: 1996
  • Subjects: Nuclear physics Scintillation counters Nuclear counters Detectors
  • Language: English
  • Type: Thesis , Doctoral , DSc
  • Identifier: vital:5482 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1005268
  • Description: The papers submitted in this volume present contributions and reviews on the physics of the scintillation process together with contributions to the development of scintillation detection techniques and the use of these techniques in nuclear physics research and in the applications of nuclear methods to other fields.
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Postmodernistiese vertelstrategieë in Nag van die clown van Abraham H. de Vries

- Van Heerden, Etienne, 1954-

  • Authors: Van Heerden, Etienne, 1954-
  • Date: 1996
  • Subjects: De Vries, Abraham H. -- Criticism and interpretation De Vries, Abraham H. -- Nag van die clown Afrikaans fiction -- History and criticism Postmodernism (Literature) Postmodernism (Literature) -- South Africa
  • Language: Afrikaans
  • Type: Thesis , Doctoral , PhD
  • Identifier: vital:3595 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1002170
  • Description: This thesis locates Abraham H. de Vries's Nag van ale Clown witbin the self-conscious South African socio-literary climate of the eighties and analyses postmodernist narrative strategies in five stories. Surveying the debate on postmodernism, this study describes postmodernism as a nomadic, inherently contradictory and mutually informing palimpsest of texts and views the De Vries text as a problematized inscribing of subjectivity into history. , Hierdie proefskrif situeer Nag van die Clown (1989) van Abraham H. de Vries binne die selfbewuste sosioliterere klimaat van die Suid-Afrika van die dekade tagtig en ontleed postmodernistiese vertelstrategiee in vyf verhale uit die bundel. Die studie bied 'n oorsig oor die debat rondom die postmodernisme as nomadiese, weersprekende en wedersyds voedende palimpses tekste en beskou die De Vries-teks as 'n problematiserende inskryf van subjektiwiteit in die geskiedenis.
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Poverty in Duncan Village, East London: a qualitiative perspective

- Bank, Leslie John

  • Authors: Bank, Leslie John
  • Date: 1996
  • Subjects: Eastern Cape (South Africa) -- Economic conditions Urban poor -- South Africa Rural-urban migration -- South Africa -- East London East London (South Africa) -- Social conditions -- Case studies
  • Language: English
  • Type: Book , Text
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/2003 , vital:20246 , ISBN 0868103209
  • Description: East London is a minor coastal city with a fragile economy based largely on the food, motor and textile manufacturing sectors. Between 1945 and 1960 the economy of the city grew rapidly registering annual growth rates in excess of 10%. This growth was based on secondary industrialization in the manufacturing sector. However, since the inauguration of the homeland policy which wedged East London between two impoverished, self- governing homeland states, Transkei and Ciskei, the economy of the city has fared less well. Low annual growth rates were recorded throughout the 1970s and 1980s despite efforts by the Apartheid government to shore up the local economy by offering attractive industrial decentralization incentives in the region. The fragility of the city is not only based on its regional location, but on the absence of mineral and power sources and its distance from major metropolitan markets. Being situated in one of the poorest provinces in the country, East London's growth has always been limited by a weak local consumer market (Swilling 1987: 140). While the economic prospects for the city have recently improved with the dismantling of the homeland system and the centralization of the Eastern Cape's regional government in nearby capital of Bisho (30 minutes’ drive from East London), the city is still badly in need of major economic investment to cater for its rapidly growing population. During the past decade, there has been a massive transfer of population from rural to urban areas in the Eastern Cape generally. This occurred as a result of a softening of homeland borders in the mid-1980s, the removal of the influx control laws in 1986, as well as the deterioration of agricultural prospects in a region gripped by a crippling drought throughout the 1980s. These factors have ensured that East London became the tar-get of a sustained wave of rural-urban immigration. Dozens of new informal settlements have sprung up all over the city during the past five years, while the established townships within the city limits have become hopelessly overcrowded. The research for this project was conducted in East London's most congested township, Duncan Village. In 1995, it had a population of approximately 100 000 people. Between 1964 and 1979, Duncan Village was the target of massive forced removals. , Digitised by Rhodes University Library on behalf of the Institute of Social and Economic Research (ISER)
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Production ecology of bryophyte vegetation at Marion Island (Sub-Antarctic)

- Russell, Shaun

  • Authors: Russell, Shaun
  • Date: 1996
  • Subjects: Bryophytes -- marion island (Prince edward islands) -- Ecology
  • Language: English
  • Type: Thesis , Doctoral , PhD
  • Identifier: vital:4224 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1003793
  • Description: The world's tundra regions can be considered as the last unexploited terrestrial biome on the earth's surface. Bryophytes contribute significantly to primary production and nutrient cycling in tundra habitats but received considerably less attention than the vascular plants during research for the Tundra Biome Project of the International Biological Programme in the 1970s. The IBP synthesis recognised this and called for more bryophyte production data and improved methodology in future studies. The synthesis also identitied the need for more information on within-site variability, energy/chlorophyll relationships and mineral nutrient studies where tundra bryophyte production patterns are concerned. Marion Island in the sub-Antarctic has an oceanic "tundra" type of vegetation, and the island offers the characteristics of an ideal "natural laboratory" for conducting fundamental ecological research particularly in the field of primary production and energy flow. Studies at Marion Island paralleled those of the IBP but also concentrated on the vascular component of the vegetation. Bryophytes contribute up to 60% of the biomass and 90% of plant cover in the mires that dominate the well-vegetated coastal plain of Marion Island. Following the termination of IBP research therefore it was decided to extend these studies during the 1980s by measuring growth and characterising the major factors influencing growth patterns in Marion Island bryophytes. In this thesis information is given on the physical and biotic environment of Marion Island. Data is presented on the cover, biomass, seasonal and annual production values, and turn-over rates (decomposition) of 15 bryophyte species found across the full range of habit at types at Marion Island. An analysis is also made of growth-associated variables viz. soils, climate, plant energy, chlorophyll. water and mineral nutrient contents. Production was found to be related broadly to moisture-related variables, overlain by nutrient factors in some instances. Higher absolute production figures were obtained than at other tundra sites and interesting phenological data are discussed. The results suggest that decomposition is controlled mainly by tissue degradability factors and that decomposition is more significant than production in controlling biomass accumulation. A model is given for production/decomposition patterns across the range of habitat conditions at Marion Island. Several growth measurement techniques were tested and recommendations are made concerning methodology for future bryophyte production studies. By reference to ecological data collected during the study.
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