Settlement agreement on wages & substantive conditions of employment entered into and between Rainbow Farms (Pty) LTD and the Food and Allied Workers Union (FAWU) and National Union of Food, Beverages, Wine, Spirits and Allied Workers
- Authors: Rainbow Farms (Pty) LTD , Food and Allied Workers Union , National Union of Food, Beverages, Wine, Spirits and Allied Workers
- Date: 2014-04-08
- Subjects: Rainbow Farms (Pty) LTD , National Union of Food, Beverages, Wine, Spirits and Allied Workers (NUFBSWSAW) , 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/10962/112387 , vital:33575 , Labour Research Service (LRS)
- Description: Settlement agreement on wages & substantive conditions of employment entered into and between Rainbow Farms (Pty) LTD and the Food and Allied Workers Union (FAWU) and National Union of Food, Beverages, Wine, Spirits and Allied Workers.
- Full Text:
- Date Issued: 2014-04-08
Possible futures for the African built environment towards 2050
- Authors: Adendorff, Gillian Lorraine
- Date: 2014-04
- Subjects: Port Elizabeth (South Africa) , Eastern Cape (South Africa) , South Africa
- Language: English
- Type: Master's/Doctoral theses , text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10948/53325 , vital:45136
- Description: Purpose –The purpose of this thesis is to develop four scenarios for Africa’s built environment over the nextfortyyears: The ”Angel” or “Good Governance”Scenario,in which positive elements become a realisation for Africa’s built environment and are conjointly favourable; The “Dwarf” or “Uneven African Development”Scenario, in which key driving forces unfold inan uneven pattern, or have a differentiated impact on Africa’s built environment; The “Elf” or Bad Governance Scenario,in which less good governance prevails, but where a fortunate built environment and securemanagement allowsAfrica to become competitive and benefit from satisfactory economic growth;and The “Hobgoblin” or “Business and Governance as usual” Scenario,in which negative regional drivers of change corrode positive policies and initiatives in a manner which compounds the pre-existing threats of Africa’s built environment development.Design/Methodology/Approach –The goal of this thesis is not only to affirm what is already known and knowable regardingwhat is happening right now at the intersections of Africa and its built environment development, but also to explore the many ways in which environmental scanning and built environment development could co-involve,both push and inhibit each other,in the future. Thereafter, this thesis beginsto examine what possible paths may be implicatedfor Africa’s poor and vulnerable built environment. Scenario planning is a methodology designed to help researchers, organisations and even nations alike through this creative process. This thesis begins to identifydriversof change, and then combines these driversin different ways to create a set of scenarios regardinghow the future built environment of Africa could evolve.Practical implications –This thesis provides a useful insight regardingdrivers for change for Africa’s built environment,and how to anticipate these changes in the mostcurrentScenario planning.Originality/Value –This thesis addressesthe future of Africa’s built environment from a decision maker’s point of view over the next 40 years. , Thesis (PhD) -- Faculty of Engineering, the Built Environment and Technology, School of the Built Environment and Civil Engineering, 2021
- Full Text:
- Date Issued: 2014-04
Problem-based learning strategies as determinant of grade 9 student's academic achievement in algebra
- Authors: Olaoye, Olabisi Fatimat
- Date: 2014-04
- Subjects: Problem-based learning , Learning strategies
- Language: English
- Type: Doctoral theses , text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10353/24717 , vital:63535
- Description: Many scholars in the field of mathematics education have written extensively on algebra and the reasons why algebra remains one of the aspects of mathematics that usually poses problems to students. This study examined the effects of problem based learning strategies on students’ academic achievement in algebra using language proficiency and gender as moderator variables. A 3X2X3 pretest-posttest control group quasi-experimental design was adopted in the study. One hundred and nine subjects were involved in the study (109) this consisted of forty-four males and sixty-five females in four Grade 9 mathematics classes in East London District. The study was carried out in two schools using two intact classes in each of the school. One class in each school was randomly assigned to the experimental and another to control groups. Four instruments were constructed and used for this study. These are: Language Proficiency Achievement Test (LPAT), Problem Based Learning Strategies are in two parts (PBLSa) and (PBLSb), Conventional Teaching Guide (C.T.G). The instruments were validated and used for data collection before and after the four week experiment. Seven hypotheses were generated and tested in the study at 0.05 alpha levels. The data collected were subjected to both descriptive and inferential statistics, which included Analysis of Covariance (ANCOVA) of students post-test achievement and where the results were significant, Pairwise Comparison Analysis of Scheffe post-hoc were employed to detect the source of variation and the direction of significance of post-test achievement according to treatment groups. One of the major findings of this study was that problem based learning strategies (PBLSa), (PBLSb) are more effective than conventional method in students’ academic achievement in algebra ( x = 3.05; SE =.720), ( x = 4.23; SE=.714), ( x = 3.36; SE =.726) in that order. The study also revealed there is no significant main effect of treatment and language proficiency on students’ academic achievement in Algebra (F (2,109) = .926; p>.05). Also, there is no significant main effect of treatment and gender on students’ academic achievement in algebra. (F (1.109) =.237; p>.05). However, this study recommended that problem based learning strategies should be embraced by both the teachers and learners in order to enhance students’ academic achievement in algebra. , Thesis (PhD) -- Faculty of Education, 2014
- Full Text:
- Date Issued: 2014-04
Supplementary agreement between Highland Superspar and 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.
- Full Text:
- Date Issued: 2014-03-26
Wage settlement agreement entered into between Bronkhorstspruit Golf Club and Food and Allied Workers Union (FAWU)
- 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).
- Full Text:
- Date Issued: 2014-03-24
Wage agreement (2014-2015) between JT International Manufacturing South Africa Proprietary Limited and the Food and Allies 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.
- Full Text:
- Date Issued: 2014-03-20
Agreement entered into between SIS Farming (Pty) LTD (SIS) and Food and Allied Workers Union (FAWU)
- 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).
- Full Text:
- Date Issued: 2014-03-13
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)
- 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).
- Full Text:
- Date Issued: 2014-03-12
2014/2015 Salary agreement between Chamdor Meat Packers (Pty) Ltd andthe 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.
- Full Text:
- Date Issued: 2014-03-10
Memorandum of agreement 2014 between CCS Logistics - City Deep and 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.
- Full Text:
- Date Issued: 2014-03-05
'Joining the academic life': South African students who succeed at university despite not meeting standard entry requirements
- Authors: Vincent, Louise , Idahosa, Grace E
- Date: 2014
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/141745 , vital:38001 , https://hdl.handle.net/10520/EJC159177
- Description: At present the Swedish points system is one of the main determinants of an applicant either being granted or refused entry into many South African higher education institutions (HEIs). Using a grounded theory approach, this article interprets the experiences of participants whose school performance and therefore university 'entry points' were lower than the expected norm. Despite not meeting standard university entry requirements, these students succeeded at university, completing their degrees in the minimum time available and going on to higher degrees. The journey of these participants - from low entry points to academic success - suggests that points based on school performance are not necessarily the best way of identifying students' potential to succeed in the contemporary South African educational context. If their entry points were not a good indication of their ability to thrive at university, the article asks, what is it about these participants that accounts for their success? And what implications does this have for South African practice, not only with regard to admissions policies but also in relation to the responsibilities of HEIs to students once they are admitted?
- Full Text:
- Date Issued: 2014
'On the fringes of society’ and ‘out of the closest’: a response to ‘Sexual/Textual Politics
- Authors: Spencer, Lynda G
- Date: 2014
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/139034 , vital:37698 , https://doi.org/10.1080/02589001.2014.983324
- Description: Gibson Ncube’s ‘Sexual/Textual Politics: Rethinking gender and sexuality in gay Moroccan literature’ focuses on an emerging body of gay literature that is developing within the larger framework of Moroccan literature. Ncube attempts to illustrate how the contemporary narratives of Rachid O. and Abdellah Taïa portray the quotidian experiences of minority sexualities who strive to exist in the hegemonic heteropatriarchies of Moroccan societies. These narratives challenge and destabilise the heteronormative ideals of Arab-Muslim communities and endeavour to offer alternative ways of thinking about marginalised sexualities in the public space. This analysis draws on the feminist underpinnings of Maria Pia Lara to argue that private gay narratives have the potential to re-imagine the public domain.
- Full Text:
- Date Issued: 2014
'We must start with our own children’: reflectively researching intergenerational leadership for social justice, education, and sustainability
- Authors: Lotz-Sisitka, Heila
- Date: 2014
- Subjects: To be catalogued
- Language: English
- Type: text , book chapter
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/437207 , vital:73353 , ISBN 978-9086862528 , https://doi.org/10.3920/978-90-8686-802-5_1
- Description: This paper was prepared today, 13 December 2013, for this book on ‘Intergenerational learning and transformative leader-ship for sustainable futures’, to be released in November 2014 at a World Conference to mark the end of the UN Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (UN-DESD) in Nago-ya, Japan. The UNDESD was born in Johannesburg in 2002; it was an outcome of the Johannesburg Implementation Plan formulated by world leaders at the World Summit on Sustaina-ble Development, hosted by the South African government, building on the earlier Rio Earth Summit. Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela attended the opening of the World Summit on Sus-tainable Development soon after he left office as the first dem-ocratically elected President of the Republic of South Africa. He passed away a week ago today, on 5 December 2013, at the age of 95. His life story is well known. I write here about his words ‘We must start with our own children’.
- Full Text:
- Date Issued: 2014
A comparative photophysicochemical study of mono substituted phthalocyanines grafted onto silica nanoparticles
- Authors: Fashina, Adebayo , Antunes, Edith M , Nyokong, Tebello
- Date: 2014
- Subjects: To be catalogued
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/193844 , vital:45399 , xlink:href="https://doi.org/10.1142/S1088424614500138"
- Description: In this study, we report on the covalent linking of carboxylic acid functionalized silica nanoparticles with zinc phthalocyanine mono-substituted non-peripherally and peripherally with either a 4-amino phenoxy (1, peripheral and 2, non-peripheral) or an amino group (3 peripheral). The grafting is achieved via the formation of an amide bond between the carboxylic acid of the silica nanoparticles and the amino group of the phthalocyanine complexes. The hybrid nanoparticles retained the amorphous nature of silica nanoparticles after conjugation. A slight decrease in fluorescence and a general improvement in triplet quantum yields compared to free Pcs were observed. Triplet lifetimes for 2-SiNPs and 3-SiNPs also improved when compared to the free phthalocyanine. The changes in singlet oxygen quantum yields upon conjugation were minimal.
- Full Text:
- Date Issued: 2014
A critical analysis of the tax consequences of debt reductons, in the context of insolvency, death and the liquidaton of a deceased estate
- Authors: Simango, Samuel
- Date: 2014
- Language: English
- Type: text , Thesis , Masters , MCom
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/54464 , vital:26567
- Description: The present research was conducted in an effort to address certain problems and a legal anomaly that is specifically related to the tax treatment of reduced debts stemming from the death or insolvency of natural persons in South Africa. At the beginning of 2013 the National Treasury enacted certain amendments to the debt reduction provisions of the Income Tax Act 58 of 1962 with the intention of streamlining the tax treatment of reduced debts and granting debt relief to financially distressed debtors. In spite of these recent amendments to the provisions of the Income Tax Act, there are certain problems and a legal anomaly which still currently relate to the tax consequences of reduced debts in South Africa. These problems and the legal anomaly are based on the failure of the recent amendments to successfully address debt reduction which arises in the context of the death and/or insolvency of natural persons. The objective of this research was therefore to analyse the tax consequences of reduced debts arising in the context of the death and the insolvency of natural persons and to explain how the problems and legal anomaly associated with these tax consequences can be rectified. The research design was qualitative within the framework of an interpretive paradigm. A mixed methodology approach was followed as identified in the Arthurs Report (1983), namely the interdisciplinary and the doctrinal methodologies. This approach encompassed two legal research methods namely the expository and legal reform research methods. The research explained the underlying nature of the tax consequences of reduced debts arising in the context of the death and the insolvency of natural persons and formulated specific reform measures aimed at remedying the problems and the legal anomaly that currently exist. Two amendments were proposed. It was proposed that the tax liability which arises when debts are reduced through the wills of deceased persons and the reduction of debts stemming from the insolvency of natural persons should be expressly excluded from falling within the ambit of the provisions which give rise to tax consequences whenever debt reduction takes place.
- Full Text:
- Date Issued: 2014
A Flexible Approach for the Application of Immersive Audio to an Installation Performance:
- Authors: Gurdan, Robby , Foss, Richard
- Date: 2014
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/426732 , vital:72387 , https://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/28/4a/94/1113bd7074ad90/US8862755.pdf /
- Description: An apparatus for modifying a command message (CMD) received from a source apparatus to control a target device parameter of a target apparatus within a digital multimedia network, wherein a hierarchical parameter address (HPA) or a parameter value contained in said command message (CMD) is changed according to at least one change script to provide a modified command message (CMD′).
- Full Text:
- Date Issued: 2014
A new approach to obesity for health journalism: fit not fat
- Authors: Dugmore, Harry
- Date: 2014
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/158620 , vital:40212 , https://hdl.handle.net/10520/EJC159484
- Description: Health journalism is a complicated beat. The science is easy to get wrong, and the tone and tenor of the reporting needs careful attention. Coverage of obesity is even more fraught. Early insights from an on-going research project by the Discovery Centre for Health Journalism suggests that not only is most journalism about obesity not helping - some reporting may inadvertently be making the situation worse. This needs to change. There is too much at stake for journalism about food, fat and fitness to be anything less than impactful and effective.
- Full Text:
- Date Issued: 2014
A Note on the (Continued) Ability of the Yield Curve to Forecast Economic Downturns in South Africa
- Authors: Botha, Ferdi , Keeton, Gavin
- Date: 2014
- Subjects: To be catalogued
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/395994 , vital:69142 , xlink:href="https://doi.org/10.1111/saje.12053"
- Description: In 2002-2003, the South African yield spread falsely signalled a downswing that never materialised. This paper provides two reasons for this false signal. First, while the Reserve Bank never actually officially declared the start of a downswing, by alternative measures a downswing did actually occur. It is this severe weakness in economic activity at that time that the yield curve pointed to. Second, short-term interest rates in 2003 were higher than they should have been because of a mistake made in measuring consumer price inflation. Because South Africa had recently introduced an inflation-targeting regime, policy interest rates were, as a result of this error, kept too high for too long. This policy mistake was rectified as soon as the error in the Consumer Price Index was discovered. Thus, the yield curve in 2003 pointed to the reality that short-term interest rates were too high and risked pushing the economy into full blown recession. This is demonstrated by the fact that it was a fall in long bond interest rates that caused the yield spread to turn negative, indicating expectations that short-term interest rates would need to be cut – as indeed they were.
- Full Text:
- Date Issued: 2014
A promising biological control agent for the invasive alien plant, Pereskia aculeata Miller (Cactaceae), in South Africa
- Authors: Paterson, Iain D , Mdodana, Lumka A , Mpekula, Ongezwa , Mabunda, Bheki D , Hill, Martin P
- Date: 2014
- Subjects: To be catalogued
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/416806 , vital:71387 , xlink:href="https://doi.org/10.1080/09583157.2014.919439"
- Description: Pereskia aculeata Miller (Cactaceae) is an invasive alien plant from Central and South America that has become a problematic environmental weed in South Africa. A potential biological control agent, the stem-wilter, Catorhintha schaffneri Brailovsky and Garcia (Coreidae), was collected in southern Brazil and imported into quarantine in South Africa. Field host range data suggested that C. schaffneri has a host range restricted to P. aculeata. No-choice nymph survival tests were then conducted on 27 test plant species in 9 families. Survival to the adult stage was only recorded on P. aculeata and the closely related Pereskia grandifolia Haw. (Cactaceae). Mortality was significantly higher on P. grandifolia with only 3% of the nymphs reaching the adult stage compared with 74% on P. aculeata indicating that P. aculeata is the primary host plant. P. grandifolia is native in South America and is of no agricultural importance in South Africa so any feeding on P. grandifolia in South Africa would have no negative environmental or economic consequences. In other tests, adult survival on P. aculeata [25.8 days (SE ± 3.74)] was significantly longer than on other test plant species [4.3 days (SE ± 0.36)] further confirming the host specificity of the species. Impact studies conducted in quarantine indicated that C. schaffneri is damaging to P. aculeata, significantly reducing the number of leaves and the shoot lengths of plants, even at relatively low insect densities. C. schaffneri is safe for release in South Africa and is likely to be a damaging and effective agent.
- Full Text:
- Date Issued: 2014
A reflection on the use of case studies as a methodology for social learning research in sub Saharan Africa
- Authors: Cundill, Georgina , Lotz-Sisitka, Heila , Mukute, Mutizwa , Belay, Million , Shackleton, Sheona , Kulundu, Iinjairu
- Date: 2014
- Subjects: To be catalogued
- Language: English
- Type: text , book chapter
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/436636 , vital:73288 , ISBN 1573-5214 , https://doi.org/10.1016/j.njas.2013.04.001
- Description: A recent review has highlighted that the methodology most commonly employed to research social learning has been the individual case study. We draw on four examples of social learning research in the environmental and sustainability sci-ences from sub-Saharan Africa to reflect on possible reasons behind the preponderance of case study research in this field, and to identify common elements that may be significant for social learning research more generally. We find that a com-mon interest in change oriented social learning, and therefore processes of change, makes case studies a necessary ap-proach because long term process analyses are required that are sensitive to social-ecological contexts. Common elements of the examples reflected upon included: a focus on initiating, tracking and/or understanding a process of change toward sustainability; long term research; an action research agenda that involves reflecting on data with research participants; and temporal, process based analysis of data coupled with in-depth theoretical analysis. This paper highlights that there is significant scope for exploratory research that compares case studies of social learning research to generate a deeper un-derstanding of social learning processes, and their relationship to human agency and societal change.
- Full Text:
- Date Issued: 2014